Yes, the Tigers collapsed. But not completely.

And, this time of the year, that's all that matters, as Detroit's baseball team is playing postseason baseball for a second consecutive year, opening with a best-of-three, wild-card series against the Guardians in Cleveland, starting Tuesday.

The Tigers finally clinched a playoff spot in Boston on Saturday , the penultimate day of the regular season, and settled for a wild card rather than a division championship, even though they led the American League Central by as many as 14 games this summer, and as many as 15.5 games against the Guardians, the team that eventually took the title.

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