The Cleveland Guardians forced a decisive Game 3 with a clutch 6-1 win over the Detroit Tigers Wednesday. Cleveland is just the third team to even a Wild Card Series since MLB switched to the current best-of-three format in 2022.

Following the defeat, Tigers manager A.J. Hinch attempted to make sense of his team’s disappointing performance .

“It was a tough day. Obviously, they made the most of their opportunities and we left 15 guys on. So, I think that paints the picture that it was today. It was a hard-fought game and the score doesn’t really indicate how the game was,” Hinch said, per MLB Network.

“We kept giving ourselves a chance. And the last at-bat was ending poorly a lot of times, with the punch-outs. It’s not easy. They’ve got good pitching. We knew they were going to go

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