Tigers topple Guardians in wild card, reach ALDS

CLEVELAND -- Dillon Dingler homered successful the sixth inning, Wenceel Pérez drove successful a brace of runs successful a four-run seventh and the Detroit Tigers defeated the Cleveland Guardians 6-3 Thursday to beforehand to the American League Division Series.

It is the 2nd consecutive play the Tigers person won a Wild Card Series connected the road. Detroit heads to Seattle for the Division Series with Game 1 connected Saturday.

The AL West champion Mariners, the 2nd seed, took 4 of the six regular-season meetings from the Tigers, who were the 3rd chaotic card.

José Ramírez drove successful Cleveland's lone run. The AL Central champion Guardians were 15 1/2 games backmost successful aboriginal July earlier completing the biggest comeback successful part oregon league play successful shot history.

However, they ran retired of steam successful the best-of-three bid arsenic Detroit turned the leafage aft posting the second-worst grounds successful the majors successful September (7-17).

The crippled was tied 1-all with 2 outs successful the sixth inning erstwhile Dingler got an elevated changeup from Joey Cantillo connected a 1-1 number and drove it 401 feet into the bleachers successful left-center to enactment the Tigers connected top.

It was besides the archetypal postseason deed and RBI for the Tigers catcher.

Detroit past broke it unfastened successful the seventh by sending 10 batters to the sheet and scoring 4 times.

With 1 retired and the bases loaded, Pérez lined a basal deed to close disconnected Erik Sabrowski to thrust successful Javier Báez and Parker Meadows. Hunter Gaddis came successful and gave up RBI basal hits to Spencer Torkelson and Riley Greene, which brought successful Kerry Carpenter and Pérez.

Kyle Finnegan got the win, retiring each 4 batters helium faced. Cantillo took the loss.

The Tigers opened the scoring successful the third. With 1 retired and runners connected the corners, Carpenter deed a grounder down the first-base enactment that deflected disconnected C.J. Kayfus' mitt erstwhile helium tried to backmost manus it. The shot rolled into foul territory adjacent the stands arsenic Parker Meadows scored, Carpenter went to 2nd and Gleyber Torres precocious to 3rd connected what the authoritative scorer ruled a double

The Guardians tied it successful the fourth. George Valera led disconnected with a treble to the right-field country and scored connected José Ramírez's basal deed to right-center connected a knuckle curve by Flaherty connected a afloat count.

The azygous was the 40th deed of Ramírez's postseason career, making him the 5th subordinate successful franchise past to scope that milestone.

In the eighth inning, Ramírez reached connected missed drawback mistake by Detroit reliever Will Vest to people Brayan Rocchio and Steven Kwan. But Ramírez was thrown retired astatine second.