CLEVELAND -- José Ramírez had a premonition that was also a lesson.

“With two strikes,” he told Brayan Rocchio before the bottom of the eighth, “look for the fastball in.”

Rocchio got it. A middle-in, 99.9 mph heater from reliever Troy Melton. And he got all of it.

With one swing from the man known now and perhaps forever as “Playoff Rocchio,” the man who brings us “Rocchtober,” the man who “Rocchs” the Tigers’ world, we have ourselves an American League Wild Card Series Game 3 -- and a fitting finale to the brutal battle the Guardians and Tigers have been waging against each other in recent weeks.

If Rocchio’s tie-breaking solo shot in the eighth inning of what turned out to be a 6-1 win for the Guards in Game 2 on Wednesday afternoon felt big in the moment, it was actually even b

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