October Baseball by Allison Farrand / Detroit Tigers

For most of the season the Detroit Tigers were one of the best teams in baseball and racking up wins at an incredible rate. The Freep shares that all that changed:

The 6-seed Tigers (87-75) squandered what was a 15½-game lead over the 3-seed Guardians (88-74) in the division on July 8, and 9½ games on Sept. 10. Cleveland went 5-1 against Detroit in the final two weeks (and 8-5 overall this season) to take homefield in the wild-card series and give the Tigers a label no team ever wants: biggest division meltdown in MLB history.

Today, the slate is clean & the Tigers travel to Cleveland to meet the Guardians at 1:08pm in Game 1 of an American League wild-card series. Play(off) Ball!!