SEATTLE -- The Mariners have been anxiously awaiting their opponent for the American League Division Series, with five off-days since the end to the regular season. And they finally got that clarity on Thursday when watching the Tigers outlast the Guardians on the T-Mobile Park jumbotron ahead of their second split-squad scrimmage to stay sharp before this best-of-five bout.

The Tigers, who had MLB’s best record leading into the All-Star break but stumbled mightily in the second half, overcame their September shortcomings by winning a winner-take-all Game 3 vs. the Guardians team that supplanted them for the AL Central title.

Storylines will be plentiful in this matchup, perhaps none bigger than Tarik Skubal returning to his roots. The frontrunner to win his second straight AL Cy You

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