DETROIT -- The Tigers had been on the road for 15 days when they landed in Detroit on Monday afternoon. The first thing Tarik Skubal did was go to Comerica Park and get ready for their next trip.

He was down to his last clean pair of underwear, but before he did laundry, before he could even catch a nap, he had to begin his preparation for his next start.

“That’s where I was mentally,” Skubal explained. “I flew back, got back to work.”

In an ideal world, that could have been Game 1 of the ALCS. But that wouldn’t have been as much fun for the narrative.

Instead, for the second consecutive year, the Tigers will hand their postseason fate to Skubal in a winner-take-all Game 5 of their AL Division Series.

His first taste of that is forever a part of Cleveland sports lore thanks to Guard

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