Schedule: 1 p.m. ET on ESPN (Tuesday-Thursday)<\/p>\n
Regular-Season Series: Guardians 8-5 with a +12 run differential<\/p>\n
Matchup to Watch: Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez vs. Detroit Tigers<\/p>\n
Including last year’s ALDS, J-Ram has played in 140 games against Detroit since the beginning of 2017. And in what amounts to a bit less than a full season, he has triple-slashed .314\/.396\/.632 with 36 home runs, 122 RBI and 21 stolen bases. Even against the mighty Tarik Skubal, he’s 12-for-36 (.333 AVG). <\/p>\n
If the Tigers are to have any hope of winning this, they need to stifle Ram\u00edrez for a change.<\/p>\n
These teams crossed like two ships in the night in September, with Cleveland surging to an improbable division title with plenty of help from Detroit’s epic freefall. <\/p>\n
While the Guardians enter the playoffs having won 19 out of 23, the Tigers fittingly blew yet another lead on Sunday for their 22nd loss in 31 games. <\/p>\n
Does Detroit rally or does Cleveland deliver the knockout blow weeks in the making?<\/p>\n
Prediction: Guardians in 3<\/p>\n
Though things have gone horribly for the Tigers lately, they do still have Skubal for Game 1, who has a combined line of 28.0 IP, 2 ER, 40 K against Cleveland this season. But that probably just means Detroit blows another lead on its way out the door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Schedule: 1 p.m. ET on ESPN (Tuesday-Thursday) Regular-Season Series: Guardians 8-5 with a +12 run differential Matchup to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-177517","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\/177517","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=177517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}