{"id":164153,"date":"2025-09-23T16:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/164153\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T16:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:01:10","slug":"detroit-tigers-looking-to-avoid-something-never-done-in-mlb-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/164153\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Tigers looking to avoid something never done in MLB history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was July 8, 2025, and AJ Hinch and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/detroit-tigers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Tigers<\/a> sat 14 games ahead in the American League Central. Life was great as the MLB All-Star game came to the folks in Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>Then, disaster hit. The Tigers literally forgot how to win baseball games. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/cleveland-guardians\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Guardians<\/a>, who were 15.5 games behind the Tigers at that point, realized they do know how to win games, and lots of them.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to tonight at Progressive Field in Cleveland, and the Guardians are a single game back in the American League Central from the Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland is also in a tie with Houston for the final wildcard spot in the American League, and a single game behind Boston. Choas is happening in the final six days of the Major League Baseball season.<\/p>\n<p>For Detroit, a win tonight would mean a massive exhale as they look to avoid doing something that has NEVER been done in MLB history. No team has ever lost a divisional lead of 14+ games.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">No team has ever lost its division (since 1969) or league (pre-1969) after leading by 14+ games \ud83d\ude33 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q8Duzy5LRP\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/q8Duzy5LRP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN Insights (@ESPNInsights) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNInsights\/status\/1970511979585380533?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">September 23, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately for the Tigers, they got their guy on the mound. Tarik Skubal, the American League Cy Young a season ago, is on the mound, taking on Gavin Williams of the Guardians. Skubal then would be ready to go in the season finale on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/news\/clinching-day-drama-which-mlb-teams-can-secure-postseason-berth-today\u201d\/9f5eacdb2ccbd922fc97e138\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Clinching day drama: Which MLB teams can secure a postseason berth today<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following this massive three-game series, the Tigers are in Boston for what will likely be another massive series. The Guardians are taking on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/texas-rangers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Rangers<\/a>. Texas will likely be eliminated by the time the weekend arrives, but could potentially be in the mix.<\/p>\n<p>Drama has arrived. October is a week away, but tonight in Cleveland will be as close to postseason baseball as we will get unitl the real thing that starts in one week!<\/p>\n<p>More MLB News:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was July 8, 2025, and AJ Hinch and the Detroit Tigers sat 14 games ahead in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-164153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}