Yahoo Sports senior MLB analysts Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman discuss the chaos in the AL Central standings as Detroit’s massive lead has almost evaporated entering a pivotal three-game series against Cleveland. Check out the full conversation on the “Baseball Bar-B-Cast” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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What is a lot less clear is the American League Central, which I will have the pleasure and privilege to watch this week as the Detroit Tigers come to Northeast Ohio to progress the field and play 3 games, which are technically regular season games, but my goodness, they will not feel that way.
But my goodness, they will not feel that way.
And starting with Terry Sco tomorrow, I am so excited.
So to see how the Tigers respond to what has been an epic capitulation and potentially, again, there’s, there’s still time, there’s still time to, to make this a weird footnote and win the division and make us forget about how awful this has been in the last few months, but it’s, it is gonna be real dicey and I am excited to watch it.
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You can rewind to any point.
Over the last couple of months and pick a point and be like, on this date, the Tigers were this far ahead of the Guardians, right?
Um, 15.5 was the max, but I want to rewind all the way back to a freaking goddamn week ago when the Tigers, a week ago, a week ago, had a 6.5 game lead.
A 6.5 game lead over the Guardians in the Central a week ago.
That lead is now gone.
Last week, the Guardians swept the Tigers in Detroit, and this weekend, the Guardians took 3 out of 4 over the Twins in Minnesota, while the Tigers were swept at home by the Atlanta Braves, who are hot right now, it must be said.
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And now it’s one game.
Now it’s one game.
The Tigers lost again.
They have lost, I believe, 6 in a row, 7 in a row.
It feels like 50.
6 in a row, uh, 9 of their last 10.
And as you mentioned, uh, it was not, it was not pretty.