The Cleveland Guardians and the Detroit Tigers play in Game 2 of the AL Wild Card Series. The Tigers lead the series 1-0, and will advance to the ALDS with a…<\/p>\n
Detroit Tigers (87-75, second in the AL Central during the regular season) vs. Cleveland Guardians (88-74, first in the AL Central during the regular season)<\/p>\n
Cleveland; Wednesday, 1:08 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Tigers: Casey Mize (14-6, 3.87 ERA, 1.27 WHIP, 139 strikeouts); Guardians: Tanner Bibee (12-11, 4.24 ERA, 1.23 WHIP, 162 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Guardians -132, Tigers +110; over\/under is 6 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Cleveland Guardians and the Detroit Tigers play in Game 2 of the AL Wild Card Series. The Tigers lead the series 1-0 and can advance to the ALDS with a victory.<\/p>\n Cleveland is 88-74 overall and 45-36 at home. The Guardians have the fourth-best team ERA in MLB play at 3.71.<\/p>\n Detroit has gone 41-40 on the road and 87-75 overall. Tigers hitters have a collective .413 slugging percentage to rank sixth in the AL.<\/p>\n The teams meet Wednesday for the 15th time this season. The Guardians lead the season series 8-6.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Kyle Manzardo has 19 doubles, two triples and 27 home runs for the Guardians. Bo Naylor is 8 for 29 with two doubles and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Spencer Torkelson has 27 doubles, a triple and 31 home runs for the Tigers. Riley Greene is 7 for 37 with a double and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Guardians: 6-4, .215 batting average, 2.80 ERA, outscored opponents by 12 runs<\/p>\n Tigers: 3-7, .224 batting average, 4.18 ERA, outscored by 19 runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Guardians: David Fry: 10-Day IL (nose), Nolan Jones: 10-Day IL (oblique), Nic Enright: 15-Day IL (elbow), Lane Thomas: 10-Day IL (foot), Will Brennan: 60-Day IL (forearm), Andrew Walters: 60-Day IL (lat), Ben Lively: 60-Day IL (forearm), John Means: 60-Day IL (elbow), Sam Hentges: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n Tigers: Matt Vierling: 10-Day IL (oblique), Colt Keith: 10-Day IL (rib cage), Sawyer Gipson-Long: 15-Day IL (neck), Beau Brieske: 60-Day IL (forearm), Reese Olson: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Sean Guenther: 60-Day IL (hip), Jackson Jobe: 60-Day IL (flexor), Jason Foley: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Alex Cobb: 60-Day IL (hip), Ty Madden: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cleveland Guardians and the Detroit Tigers play in Game 2 of the AL Wild Card Series. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-182148","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\/182148","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=182148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}