Back on July 11, you might have been able to guess the Tigers and Mariners would cross each other’s paths come October. But you would have been very hard-pressed to guess it would look like this.

The two clubs met in Motown that day for the start of a three-game series. The Tigers had the best record in MLB, while the Mariners were sitting three games over .500, a game out of a Wild Card spot. The Tigers had made good on their shocking surge to the postseason last year and shown themselves to be an elite club, while the Mariners were still searching for their identity in many ways.

Now, the two clubs meet in the American League Division Series -- beginning Saturday afternoon at Seattle’s T-Mobile Park -- under much different circumstances.

From the time they swept the Tigers in that

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