CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Guardians have their backs towards the wall, dealing with elimination from the 2024 MLB Postseason after dropping Video games 2 and three of the American League Division Sequence. 

On Thursday night, the Detroit Tigers will host Recreation 4 of the ALDS, sooner or later after taking management of the sequence with a 3-0 victory in Recreation 3, the primary playoff sport performed in Detroit since 2014.

Because the Guardians put together for the sequence’ second sport within the Motor Metropolis, the Tigers lead the best-of-five sequence 2-1. Cleveland should beat Detroit on Thursday to maintain its season alive.

What follows is every little thing you’ll want to know concerning the Recreation 4 matchup:

• Time: 6:08 p.m.
• Location: Comerica Park, Detroit, Michigan 
• TV channel: TNT
• Streaming: Max
• Radio: WTAM 1100, WMMS 100.7, Guardians Radio Community, ESPN Radio, WARF 1350
• Moneyline: -112 Guardians / +100 Detroit Tigers
• Run line: 1.5
• Complete: Over/below 6

• Cleveland Guardians: Tanner Bibee (RHP: 12-8, 3.47 ERA, 187 SO) 
• Detroit Tigers: TBD
  

• Saturday, Oct. 5: Recreation 1 in Cleveland, Guardians win 7-0
• Monday, Oct. 7: Recreation 2 in Cleveland, Tigers win 3-0
• Wednesday, Oct. 9: Recreation 3, in Detroit, Tigers win 3-0
• Thursday, Oct. 10: Recreation 4, in Detroit, 6:08 p.m.
• Saturday, Oct. 12: Recreation 5 (if mandatory) in Cleveland, 4:38 p.m. or 8:08 p.m.

The Tigers have the sequence lead and all of the momentum after shutting out the Guardians in two straight video games. Now, it is do-or-die for Cleveland in Recreation 4.

For as lauded because the Guardians’ league-leading bullpen has been this 12 months, it is Detroit who has gotten probably the most out of its relievers within the ALDS. Righty Beau Brieske was awarded the win in Wednesday’s shutout, registering three strikeouts over two scoreless innings. The Tigers relied on their bullpen for almost all of Recreation 3; starter Keider Montero was pulled from the sport after dispatching all three batters with simply six pitches within the first inning.

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Relationship again to the seventh inning of Recreation 1, Stephen Vogt’s membership has now gone 20 straight innings with out scoring a run. Merely put, the offense wants a spark to return to its Recreation 1 kind, when Cleveland racked up 5 runs earlier than the Tigers had managed to file an out. And it definitely wants to enhance in clutch conditions; Cleveland’s batters went a dismal 0 for 8 with runners in scoring place in Recreation 3.

Tanner Bibee will return to the mound for Cleveland to begin Recreation 4. The righty put in a strong shift because the Guardians’ starter of their 7-0 Recreation 1 win over Detroit, hanging out six batters and dealing his manner out of bother a couple of instances over his 4 2/3 scoreless innings in his first profession postseason begin. The Tigers have but to call a starter for Thursday.

Ought to the Guardians win Thursday, one other assembly with Detroit’s All-Star ace Tarik Skubal awaits Saturday in Recreation 5. Skubal dominated on the mound in Recreation 2 and was lights out, recording eight strikeouts in seven pitched innings and solely giving up three hits. 

The Guardians are on the point of elimination and want a win to ship the sequence again to Cleveland for a decisive Recreation 5. Sadly for Cleveland, latest historical past shouldn’t be on its facet. Relationship again to Recreation 7 of the 1997 World Sequence, the franchise is a wretched 5-23 in postseason elimination video games. In video games the place Cleveland is the group prone to being eradicated (i.e. “win now or the season is over”), the group is 0-11.

The Guardians/Tigers sequence winner will tackle both the New York Yankees or Kansas Metropolis Royals within the American League Championship Sequence. The Yankees lead the sequence 2-1.

The Related Press and 3News Digital Producers Anna Meyer and Tyler Carey contributed.