Guardians players watch the Tiger celebrate after winning the third and final wild card game on Oct. 2, 2025 to eliminate the Guardians from the postseason at Progressive Field.AP
CLEVELAND, Ohio — There have been seasons by the Guardians and Indians that couldn’t end soon enough. If the Commissioner had told them to go home on Sept. 1, a brass band would have led them out of town.
The 2025 season was not one of those seasons. If it’s possible for a season that started on March 27 and ended on Oct. 2 to end too soon, this was the one. It was like reading a riveting who-dun-it only to find that last pages, where all would be revealed, had been ripped out by a prankster.
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