BOSTON -- Hello, my friend, we will meet again.

The Tigers and Guardians, having just played out the American League Central race with six games over the final two weeks of the regular season, will face each other in a best-of-three AL Wild Card Series beginning on Tuesday at Progressive Field . The Tigers’ 4-3 loss to the Red Sox on Sunday afternoon at Fenway Park sealed their spot as the No. 6 seed in the AL playoffs.

It’s not only a rematch of the last two weeks, it’s a rematch of last year’s AL Division Series, a dramatic five-game battle that turned on Lane Thomas’ grand slam off Tarik Skubal in Game 5. The Tigers will send Skubal to the mound on Tuesday in Game 1 .

Though the Tigers lost out on what would’ve been their first AL Central title since 2014, becoming the first

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