{"id":484699,"date":"2025-09-27T22:09:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T02:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/tigers-secure-postseason-ticket-and-maintain-the-fight-for-the-division\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T22:09:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T02:09:05","slug":"tigers-secure-postseason-ticket-and-maintain-the-fight-for-the-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/tigers-secure-postseason-ticket-and-maintain-the-fight-for-the-division\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers secure postseason ticket and maintain the fight for the division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Boston<\/strong>. The <strong>Detroit Tigers<\/strong> sealed their postseason berth this Saturday after defeating the <strong>Boston Red Sox<\/strong> 2-1 at Fenway Park, thanks to a timely two-run single by <strong>Jahmai Jones<\/strong> with two outs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You may be interested in:<a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/beisbol\/soto-a-dos-robos-del-historico-40-40-alcantara-guia-triunfo-de-marlins-sobre-mets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soto<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/beisbol\/soto-a-dos-robos-del-historico-40-40-alcantara-guia-triunfo-de-marlins-sobre-mets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">, two steals away from the historic 40-40; Alc\u00e1ntara guides Marlins victory over Mets<\/a>s<\/p>\n<p>With the victory, the Tigers secured at least a Wild Card spot, guaranteeing their presence in the playoffs for a second consecutive season. However, the goal is not entirely fulfilled: the team is still fighting to conquer their <strong>first title of the American League Central Division since 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuelan <strong>Keider Montero<\/strong> opened the game and set the pace with 4.1 innings of work, in which he struck out seven rivals and had a spectacular catch by Puerto Rican <strong>Javier B\u00e1ez<\/strong> to stop a threat in the second inning. The bullpen responded with solidity: <strong>Brant Hurter<\/strong>, Dominican <strong>Rafael Montero<\/strong> and <strong>Tyler Holton<\/strong> maintained the lead, before <strong>Will Vest<\/strong> closed successfully for his <strong>23rd save of the campaign<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The triumph came at a key moment, after weeks of ups and downs in September. In addition, it allows Detroit to manage its rotation and reserve ace <strong>Tarik Skubal<\/strong>, current winner of the American League Cy Young, to open <strong>Game 1 of the Wild Card Series<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers, who led the first half of the season with the best MLB record, managed to overcome a complicated finish and arrive at the decisive phase with the confidence to put their setbacks behind them and start from scratch in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston. The Detroit Tigers sealed their postseason berth this Saturday after defeating the Boston Red Sox 2-1 at Fenway Park, thanks to a timely two-run single by Jahmai Jones with two outs. You may be interested in:Soto, two steals away from the historic 40-40; Alc\u00e1ntara guides Marlins victory over Metss With the victory, the Tigers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"featured_media":484700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[35481],"tags":[611,40231,13766,41186],"class_list":["post-484699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-mlb","tag-theperiodicodelatruth"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-225J","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/20250927_220647.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yamell Rossi","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-7a176880-76f8-4b0c-9527-4e34feef45e4-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Baseball"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/20250927_220647.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}