CLEVELAND -- They didn’t jeer or heckle Dillon Dingler here when he hit the home run that cut through the tension, broke open the dam and put this decisive Game 3 of the American League Wild Card Series on the course to completion .

The rivalry between Dingler’s Tigers and the Guardians has never been stronger after they’ve faced each other in consecutive falls, in consecutive postseason series that went the distance and -- most pointedly -- nine times in a 17-day span that covered Detroit’s historic AL Central collapse and, now, its successful resurgence.

And yet Dingler, whose tie-breaking solo home run to left field in the sixth inning was the biggest swing of the Tigers’ 6-3 triumph Thursday afternoon at Progressive Field, literally hits too close to home for anybody here to gi

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