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A few hours before her team played its most important game of the 2012 season, University of Michigan softball coach Carol Hutchins stepped into the stifling sauna that Tuscaloosa, Alabama, can feel like by Memorial Day and went for a jog. Her route took her past the University of Alabamas softball stadium, one of college softballs crown jewels but also the home of a program that played its first-ever game in a city park about a month before Hutchins won her 500th game.In town to broadcast the NCAA tournament super regional between Michigan and Alabama, ESPNs Jessica Mendoza, then also an active player and one of the best hitters in the sport, was taking batting practice in an otherwise nearly empty stadium.Soon enough, a solitary figure appeared in the outfield. Hutchins not only had found her way inside the gates but apparently borrowed a glove from someone. As the Alabama sun beat down, she settled under a couple of stray fly balls that didnt disappear over the fence.I count myself fortunate to have seen a few grand softball moments in person over the years, but that small scene in Tuscaloosa remains perhaps my favorite. It is at least partly so, I think, because it is difficult to imagine it starring anyone other than Hutchins. It wouldnt work with any other coach. It wouldnt work with Geno Auriemma wandering in to rebound for Candace Parker. It made sense with Hutchins.She is softball. She is its story. You can teach its past, present and future by tracing her path.So, of course, she stopped and shagged flies. She and the sport have that kind of relationship.When Michigan beat Indiana on April 2, 2016, Hutchins passed former Fresno State coach Margie Wright for the most wins in NCAA history. As opening day approaches for Team 40 (one of the traditions she initiated years ago is that the Wolverines refer to each team in chronological order), her total stands at 1,484 wins. All but a handful came in 32 seasons at Michigan.Nor is she slowing at age 59. Michigan spent the entire 2016 season ranked in the top five, including a stint at No. 1. It reached the Womens College World Series for the second consecutive season and the 12th time under Hutchins. Michigan won 52 games, ranked second in the nation in scoring and earned its ninth consecutive Big Ten title.She played shortstop at Michigan State in the 1970s when the NCAA still wanted nothing to do with womens sports. In those days of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, the Red Cedar River ran behind first base at the softball field in East Lansing -- and it was only a field, not a stadium. The river was often the final resting place for errant Hutchins throws. Three decades later, on national television and in front of thousands, Michigan became the first from east of the Mississippi River to win an NCAA championship.It is easy to make such juxtapositions. She was hired at Michigan as a part-time softball coach and part-time administrative assistant. She now has an office in the softball building that sits next to the softball stadium. There were barely 100 Division I programs when she took over in Ann Arbor three years into the NCAA era. There are now just shy of 300. Once an outpost, Michigan helped the game grow.Yet it is on the smallest scale that she matters most. Hutchins can be acerbic. She can glower with the best of them. Even now, I ask a question and wait to see if it passes muster. And the media have it easy compared to the player called in front of her for some transgression. It isnt a facade. She suffers fools not a smidgen. But so little of it has to do with the wins and losses. So much of it has to do with respect. Respect for the game. Respect for teammates. Respect for people.Enter the Michigan dugout and you find not just players, but people like Emily Hepker, who has waged a long-running fight with cancer. Generally fearless, even Hepker was intimidated to introduce herself to Hutchins on first meeting. Yet without any pity, Hutchins made her part of the team. Not in some ceremonial or honorary way, but in the meaningful sense of being part of the collection of people.It is the most important juxtapositions that she is beloved by those who play for her and a great many of those she beats. Players dont walk on eggshells around her; they make fake pizzas.When Hutchins was just starting out in coaching, her late mother used to ask when she was going to get a real job. On that morning in Alabama, the answer seemed obvious. Never.And generations of women have gone about their lives the better because of it.More on Carol Hutchins? Milestone moment for Hutchins Story ?? 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Offensively, we just couldnt do it.The Tigers loss to the Braves coupled with the Red Soxs loss to the Blue Jays gave Cleveland (94-67) homefield advantage in the divisional round. The newly minted AL Central champions open against Boston (93-69) on Thursday at Progressive field with Trevor Bauer slated to take the hill.You get to the last weekend of the year, you see a lot of guys kind of tailing off, said Francona, who has yet to win a postseason game in Cleveland. Our guys never did that.Not even in their regular-season finale.Josh Tomlin (13-9) dueled with the Royals Ian Kennedy (11-11) into the eighth before finally pulling ahead. Carlos Santana drew a walk off Kennedy to start the inning, Jason Kipnis followed with a double and Francisco Lindor hit a fly ball deep enough to right field for the lead.Tomlin got the first batter in the eighth before Andrew Miller finished it up, and Cody Allen handled the ninth to earn his 32nd save and give the Indians a nice boost heading into the playoffs.Ive never really experienced the postseason, said Tomlin, the expected Game 3 starter, so I know Ill be ready when that time comes. We knew we put ourselves in good position.It was a frustrating finale to an injury plagued season for the Royals, who had been to the past two World Series and were coming off their first championship since 1985. A dismal July nearly buried them, an inspired August got them back into contention, and a stumbling finish left them at .500.Meanwhile, there were so many playoff permutations riding on the final day of the regular season that Fraancona was still trying to sort everything out 3 hours before first pitch.ddddddddddddThe only thing he knew was his club was playing Boston on Thursday -- somewhere.So, the Indians chose to focus solely on a club theyve dominated this season.They fell into a 1-0 hole when Jarrod Dyson and Whit Merrifield opened the game with doubles off Tomlin, the expected Game 3 starter in the divisional series, but the lead didnt even last the two innings.The Indians answered in the third when Tyler Naquin was plunked by a pitch from Kennedy, and Yan Gomes went deep to left field on the first big league pitch hed seen since July 17.Kansas City tied it up when Cheslor Cuthbert homered leading off the fifth inning.Tomlin wound up allowing two runs on six hits in 7 1/3 innings, retiring the final 10 he faced. Kennedy retired 13 in a row during a similar stretch, giving up three runs on four hits in 7 2/3 innings.One mistake, I gave up a home run and it kind of cost me, Kennedy said. Overall, I was really happy how the outing went. At least, I gave our team a real solid chance.TRAINERS ROOMIndians: Gomes, activated from the 60-day DL on Friday, started for the first time since breaking his right hand in a rehab game Sept. 14. Its been a long way back, Gomes said. They said I cant hurt it any more. Youll just have to play through it, play through the pain.Royals: 1B Eric Hosmer missed the finale with a wrist issue hes been battling for weeks. C Sal Perez was the DH to protect an ailing hamstring. ... RHP Dillon Gee is scheduled to have another procedure Oct. 11 for blood clots in his shoulder and lung. The issue popped up during a start in Detroit.UP NEXTIndians: The chase begins for their first playoff victory since 2007, when they lost to the Red Sox -- managed by Francona -- in a seven-game AL championship series.Royals: Time to think about next season. General manager Dayton Moore has some roster decisions to make, including whether to exercise team options on SS Alcides Escobar and RHP Wade Davis. ' ' '