CLEVELAND — Dillon Dingler hit a tiebreaking home run in the sixth inning, Wenceel Pérez drove in a pair of runs in a four-run seventh and the Detroit Tigers defeated the Cleveland Guardians 6-3 on Thursday in the deciding Game 3 of their American League wild-card series.

It is the second straight season the Tigers have won a wild-card series on the road. They head to Seattle for the first two games of a best-of-five division series against the Mariners, with Game 1 on Saturday.

The AL West champion Mariners, the No. 2 seed, took four of the six regular-season meetings with the Tigers, who earned the third AL wild card.

José Ramírez drove in the Guardians’ first run. The AL Central champions were 15½ games back in early July before completing the biggest comeback in division or league p

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