Detroit — This is going to be awkward for everybody. And for how long that lasts, nobody really seems to know.

But that’s to be expected when the elephant in the room is also the horse you’re riding.

And that is quite clearly the case now with Tarik Skubal and the Tigers, who just capped another exhilarating — and exhausting — season in the same way they did a year ago: With Skubal on the mound for a winner-take-all playoff game that ended in a loss.

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