And just like that, the Detroit Tigers ’ 2025 season went up in smoke.

Or Se ñor Smoke , if you listened too much to FS1’s Adam Amin performing some blatant Aurelio López erasure every time Andrés Muñoz took the mound.

OK, maybe the season ended a little bit after that on Friday; the Seattle Mariners’ closer threw his last pitch of the ALDS (and his 74 th over four games) to finish off the ninth inning of Game 5 in Seattle … and then the Tigers and Mariners went and played six more innings , give or take an out.

It did not go the Tigers’ way .

You already knew that, if you’re reading this. And so it’s time to move on to the Fall Classic (in which one of the American League’s Class of 1977 will definitely play), and then on to winter, as we stare out the window and

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