Cleveland — What happens when two mostly young, ambitious and similarly-built teams play each other for the 11th time in a season, the 16th time in 11 months, when all strategies have been played and there are no new strings to pull?

It becomes a battle of execution and will. It becomes mano a mano. It becomes … a bunt fest?

The Tigers, for the first time since April 22, no longer hold first place alone in the AL Central Division. The Cleveland Guardians, in most peculiar fashion, scored three times in the sixth inning without advancing a baseball out of the infield, and delivered the Tigers’ seventh straight loss Tuesday night, 5-2, at Progressive Field.

BOX SCORE: Guardians 5, Tigers 2

The Tigers took a 2-0 lead into the bottom of the sixth and Tarik Skubal was dominating the Guardi

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