The Cleveland Guardians’ September rise from baseball’s graveyard to holding a playoff spot has been shocking, amazing and hard to believe.

It’s just as difficult making sense of the Detroit Tigers collapsing from the best record in the American League to maybe missing the playoffs.

The hottest and coldest clubs in the majors kept going in opposite directions on Saturday when the Guardians won a day-night doubleheader with two shutout victories in Minnesota and the Tigers lost at home to the Braves after leading in the ninth inning with two outs and two strikes

The Guardians, who beat the Twins 6-0 by day and 8-0 by night, have won 10 in a row to move into the third AL wild-card spot and get within a game of the Tigers for first place in the AL Central.

The Tigers, who were 6-5 losers

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