Dillon Dingler hit a go-ahead home run and Javier Baez sparked a four-run seventh inning as the Detroit Tigers beat the Cleveland Guardians 6-3 on Thursday to advance in the Major League Baseball playoffs.

The Tigers turned the tables on the Guardians, extending a topsy-turvy season in which they led Cleveland by a massive 15-and-a-half game margin in July only for the Guardians to pip them for the American League Central division title.

The Tigers' epic mid-season collapse -- which included five losses to the Guardians in the last two weeks of the season -- helped Cleveland author the biggest regular-season comeback in baseball history.

But it's the Tigers, who won game one but lost game two of the best-of-three wild card series in Cleveland, who will face the American League West cham

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