CLEVELAND — For the first time since July 6, the Tigers have won a game against the Guardians. With Thursday’s 4-2 victory, the Tigers avoided a three-game series sweep, while the two teams inched closer towards a rematch next week in the postseason.

The Tigers and Guardians enter the final weekend of the regular season with identical 86-73 records, but Cleveland owns the AL Central divisional tiebreaker by winning the season series. The Guardians clinched it by winning five consecutive matchups over the last week and a half. If the season ended today, the Guardians would have the third seed and host the sixth-seeded Tigers in the AL Wild Card Series beginning at Progressive Field on Tuesday.

Cleveland had a chance to move within a game of clinching the division crown with a win Thursday

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