The Detroit Tigers manager, A.J. Hinch, recently opened up on the team’s loss against the Guardians. Here’s all you need to know.

The Detroit Tigers have seen their double-digit lead in the AL Central fall to just 3.5 games over the second-place Cleveland Guardians entering Friday, and with three games still remaining against Cleveland, the pressure is mounting.

After that Tigers series wraps up next week, the Guardians will host the Texas Rangers for three games. The Tigers, for their part, will play three games this weekend against the Atlanta Braves and will then close out their season, following the Guardians series, with three games in Boston against the Red Sox.

Trouble is, his outing lasted only four innings, thanks to that diving play, which turned Angel Martínez’s hot grounder off López’s left heel into an out to lead off the third inning. Cody Laweryson and Kody Funderburk kept the Guardians scoreless until the eighth, but Cole Sands could not do the same.

Detroit Tigers third baseman Colt Keith grabbed at the right side of his lower back after Parker Meadows lined out to end the second inning.

Steven Kwan, Angel Martinez, José Ramírez and Kyle Manzardo combined to give Cleveland four extra-base hits in an extra inning for the first time in 64 years, and the Guardians beat the Detroit Tigers 7-5 in the 10th for their 10th win in 11 games.

Don’t look now, but the Cleveland Guardians have won nine of their last 10 games and are just 2.5 games out of the final playoff spot in the AL wild card. Cleve

If the Tigers were to sweep the Guardians, the maximum number of games Cleveland would be able to win is 88. That'd mean Cleveland would have to win its last 10 games of the season just to bring it to the tie-breaker, which Detroit would own in the event of a series sweep.