Seattle, you follow me to the roof! Disgrace for missing the Detroit district championship, washed up in the wild-card series. Defeat Cleveland to advance to Division Series

Oct 03, 2025

The Detroit Tigers in the Major League Baseball (MLB) have completed a thrilling revenge play against the Cleveland Guardians.

Detroit defeated Cleveland 6-3 in Game 3 of the American League Wild Card Series (best of three) at Progressive Field in Cleveland, Ohio on the 3rd (Korea time) and advanced to the AL Division Series with a 2-1 record. Detroit will face the Seattle Mariners, the winner of the AL West, in the best-of-five division series.

Detroit's victory deserves to be called a `multiple play.' It's because I've been hit by Cleveland a lot recently. Detroit passed the AL wild-card series last year and reached the division series, but lost to Cleveland.

It was worse this year. This is because he was robbed of the Earth championship, which seemed to have caught it all. Until September 4, Detroit was 10 games ahead of Cleveland, the second-ranked team in the district. He seemed to win the district championship easily.

However, Detroit suddenly collapsed from then on. Taking advantage of Detroit's shaking, Cleveland came up frighteningly. In the end, Cleveland won 5-1 in the face-to-face match on September 25 to achieve the lead. Detroit ended the season in second place in the district.

It's the result of Detroit collapsing on its own, but for Detroit anyway, Cleveland is a cheeky Earth rival. The two teams, who met again in the wild card series, played a short-term cliffhanger.

This time Detroit laughed.

Detroit won 2-1 in the first game on the 1st, thanks to ace Tarik Skubal's three hits and one run with two outs in the eighth inning. Skubal struck out as many as 14 to give his team the win.

Detroit, which gave up Game 2, collapsed Cleveland in Game 3 with the structure of its batters.

In the top of the third inning, with one out and runners on first and third, Detroit scored the first run with Kerry Carpenter's timely double to the right. However, Cleveland also fought back fiercely. Jose Ramirez hit a timely hit to the right in the bottom of the fourth inning with no outs and second base to tie the game.

Detroit broke the 1-1 balance first. Dylan Dingler hit a solo home run over left-center against Cleveland's third pitcher Joey Cantillo after two outs in the top of the sixth inning. Taking a 2-1 lead, Detroit scored four runs on offense in the top of the seventh to seal its victory.

Leading hitter Javier Baez's left-handed double and subsequent infield hits by Parker Meadows gave birth to chances on first and third bases with no outs. Then, Torres advanced to second base while Gleyber Torres hit a pitcher ground ball.

With runners on second and third bases with one out, the Cleveland battery chose to send Carpenter to four pitches on purpose. I filled first base and aimed for a double play. Detroit No. 3 Wenciel Perez took into account that he had no hits in three at-bats earlier.

But Perez didn't miss this chance. He hit a two-run timely hit against Cleveland's fifth pitcher Hunter Gaddis. Then, Spencer Tokelson and Riley Green had three consecutive hits, and Detroit ran 6-1. Considering the low score in this wild card, the five-point gap in the second half of the game was quite large.

In the end, Cleveland failed to close the gap. In the bottom of the eighth inning, all he had to do was jump on Detroit's infield error and catch up with two runs. Detroit closer Will Best, who was on the verge of hitting second and third bases with one out in the bottom of the eighth inning, kept the victory with a no-hitter for one ⅔ inning. The two runs were attributed to first baseman Tokelson's error.

Detroit, which completed a thrilling revenge play against Cleveland, will play the first game of the Division Series against home team Seattle at Seattle T-Mobile Park in the early morning of the 5th.

This article was translated by Naver AI translator.