The Brewers are such a great story this season, in a great baseball city. Everybody can see that. But so, too, are the Tigers, who still think their kids can do in baseball what the kids from the Oklahoma City Thunder did in pro basketball this past season, and that's go all the way. The Brewers have a big lead in the NL Central. The Tigers have a bigger lead in the AL Central , 9 1/2 games on Sept. 1.

Overall, the Tigers’ record is just five games worse than the Brewers heading into the Labor Day schedule. And imagine what everything would look like if the Tigers hadn’t suddenly blown all four tires in July and lost 12 out of 13 games. But that happened, absolutely. It is part of the Tigers' permanent record. But around that stretch, which really did come out of nowhere, A.J. Hinch’s

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