It's almost over...
While the real-life version of this team struggles to play .500 ball, in this alternate universe they're one game away from their third AL championship in club history (2008 & 2020) after taking advantage of a very sloppy Tiger team to rout Detroit 12-3 and take a 3-0 ALCS lead. The home team's pitchers issued 7 walks, hit a man, and made two errors.
Junior Caminero's 2-run single opened it up a 4-0, and after Detroit got within 5-2
Jonathan Aranda belted a grand slam for his first career postseason homer to remove any doubt.
Shane Baz will get the first chance to close out the series tomorrow.
Things are a bit different in the NLCS as the Dodgers got off the mat to even things up with a pair of home wins: