DETROIT -- For the second consecutive year, the Tigers will hand the ball to Tarik Skubal in a winner-take-all Game 5 of an American League Division Series. The path to get him there was unlike any that Tigers fans have seen in a long time.

What looked like a Mariners clincher at Comerica Park on Wednesday afternoon suddenly turned on a three-run rally -- capped by a Javier Báez game-tying single -- in the fifth before Riley Greene’s first career postseason home run ignited both the Tigers’ offense and the sellout crowd in a four-run sixth, sending Detroit on its way to a 9-3 win in Game 4 and a return to T-Mobile Park.

It was a stunning result that ran opposite to the first half of the game. As manager A.J. Hinch churned through pitchers – first pulling Casey Mize after three innings, t

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