Overview

• Detroit beat Cleveland 4-2 at Progressive Field, snapping an eight-game slide with solo homers from Jahmai Jones, Wenceel Pérez and Riley Greene and a 1-2-3 ninth by Will Vest for his 22nd save.
• Both clubs are 86-73 with three games left, and the Guardians hold the season-series tiebreaker after going 8-5 against the Tigers.
• Cleveland’s starters had allowed two or fewer runs in 19 straight games before rookie Parker Messick yielded four runs in five innings to end the streak.
• The Tigers occupy the final AL wild-card spot by one game over Houston, and their season-series edge over the Astros cuts the clinching number to any combination of two Detroit wins or Astros losses.
• Next up, Detroit visits Boston while Cleveland hosts Texas, which has dropped nine of its last 10, to close the regular season.