A.J. Hinch talked about Tarik Skubal's dominant 14-strikeout performance and the squeeze bunt that flipped the script for the Tigers against Cleveland.

The win keeps them alive in this American League Wild Card Series and sets up a winner-take-all Game 3 on Thursday, Oct. 2 at Cleveland's Progressive Field. That winner will fly to Seattle to take on the AL West-winning Mariners in the American League Division Series beginning Saturday.

Tarik Skubal struck out a career-high 14 batters Tuesday as the Detroit Tigers defeated the Cleveland Guardians, 2-1, in Game 1 of the American League Wild Card series.

A year after being left behind in Cleveland’s bullpen, Casey Mize returns to Progressive Field as Detroit’s Game 2 starter, carrying the lessons of failure, the challenge of facing a relentless Guardians lineup,

José De León pitched a career-high 6 2/3 innings in his first outing in two years, and Masataka Yoshida and David Hamilton homered on Sunday to give the Boston Red Sox a 4-3 victory over the Detroit Tigers that clinched the AL Central title for the Cleveland Guardians.