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The Cleveland Guardians<\/a> (88-74) and Detroit Tigers<\/a> (87-75) played six times in the final two weeks of the season and they’ll do battle again in the Wild Card Series. The Guardians staged the biggest comeback to win a division in MLB<\/a> history, charging back from 15 \u00bd games to steal the division. The Tigers were able to squeak into the playoffs with a wild card and have the chance to make things right after their historic collapse.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Guardians won the season series, eight games to five, and won five of the six games between the two teams in September.\u00a0<\/p>\n Here’s the Wild Card Series schedule for the Tigers vs. Guardians:<\/p>\n Game 1 \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Tues., Sept. 30<\/p>\n 1:08 p.m. ET<\/p>\n ESPN<\/p>\n Game 2 \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Weds., Oct. 1<\/p>\n 1:08 p.m. ET<\/p>\n ESPN<\/p>\n Game 3 \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Thurs., Oct. 2<\/p>\n TBD<\/p>\n Where to watch Game 1<\/p>\n Date:\u00a0Tuesday, Sept. 1\u00a0|\u00a0Time:\u00a01:08 p.m. ET Here’s what you need to know about the Tigers and Guardians entering the Wild Card Series.<\/p>\n Wild Card Series storylines<\/p>\n Tigers: It’s all about shaking off the collapse. The Tigers had a double-digit lead in the AL Central as late as Sept. 3. Seeing that lead get smaller and smaller could’ve done a number on them mentally to the point that it snowballed on them. Heading into the playoffs, there’s a clean slate. Every team is technically 0-0 now. It doesn’t hurt that the Tigers have likely AL Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal<\/a> set to start Game 1. Then again, the Guardians won two games started by Skubal in September.<\/p>\n Guardians: Despite the Tigers having Skubal, the Guardians arguably have the better rotation in this series. Gavin Williams, the expected Game 1 starter, has a 2.18 ERA in his last 12 starts. Tanner Bibee<\/a> has a 1.30 ERA in his last four starts and rookie Parker Messick<\/a> has been brilliant in his seven-start debut. The Guardians are, statistically, the worst offensive team in the playoffs and it’s not particularly close, so they’ll be looking to play low-scoring games and manufacture runs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images The Cleveland Guardians (88-74) and Detroit Tigers (87-75) played six times in the final two weeks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,5258,5260,591,85],"class_list":["post-177575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Location:\u00a0Progressive Field (Cleveland)
TV channel: ESPN\u00a0| Live stream: Fubo<\/a> (try for free)
Probable pitchers: LHP Tarik Skubal (DET) vs. TBA
Odds:\u00a0DET -150 | CLE +123 (via DraftKings<\/a>)<\/p>\n