{"id":24348,"date":"2025-09-27T23:22:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T23:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=24348"},"modified":"2025-09-27T23:22:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T23:22:27","slug":"detroit-tigers-clinch-playoff-berth-for-2nd-consecutive-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=24348","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Tigers clinch playoff berth for 2nd consecutive year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<br \/><span class=\"timestamp \">Sep 27, 2025, 07:06 PM ET<\/span><\/p>\n<p>BOSTON &#8212; Jamhai Jones hit a two-run single to rally the Detroit Tigers from an early deficit, and his team hung on to defeat the Boston Red Sox 2-1 on Saturday, clinching a spot in the American League playoffs for the second consecutive season.<\/p>\n<p>Less than 24 hours after the Red Sox sealed their postseason berth, the Tigers claimed at least a wild card and eliminated the Houston Astros from the race. Detroit still could win the AL Central title but would need help from Cleveland, which played Texas on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Montero and four relievers held Boston to one run and seven hits. Tyler Holton (6-5) got four outs for the victory. Will Vest pitched the ninth for his 23rd save.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Kind of a crazy ride but it&#8217;s well worth it,&#8221; Tigers manager A.J. Hinch told his team in the clubhouse on Saturday night, during the celebration. &#8220;We went up, we went down, we went up again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers (87-74) led the division by as many as 14 games in July and still held a 9\u00bd-game lead on Sept 11 before losses in 12 out of 14 games dropped them into a tie with Cleveland (86-74). The Guardians, who were in fourth place and 15\u00bd games back on July 7, are 17-4 since Sept. 5 and hold the tiebreaker against Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>In Sunday&#8217;s series finale, Detroit has ace Tarik Skubal (13-6) lined up for the game, but the Tigers would love to save him for the postseason opener.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sep 27, 2025, 07:06 PM ET BOSTON &#8212; Jamhai Jones hit a two-run single to rally the Detroit Tigers from an early deficit, and his team hung on to defeat the Boston Red Sox 2-1 on Saturday, clinching a spot in the American League playoffs for the second consecutive season. Less than 24 hours after<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[14803,14255,12458,5426,13017,750,10114,1569],"class_list":{"0":"post-24348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-2nd","9":"tag-berth","10":"tag-clinch","11":"tag-consecutive","12":"tag-detroit","13":"tag-playoff","14":"tag-tigers","15":"tag-year"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}