Detroit Tigers manager A.J. Hinch, center, celebrates his team’s 5-2 win against the Houston Astros in Game 2 of an AL Wild Card Series baseball game Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024, in Houston.
Ding dong, the Astros are gone.
The Tigers knocked off the Yankees’ biggest postseason thorn, the Astros, on Wednesday, sweeping Houston out of the playoffs in Game 2 of the American League Wild Card Series.
Detroit broke open the ballgame with a four-run eighth inning that lifted the Tigers to a 5-2 win.
They now advance to face the Guardians in the ALDS.
The Astros’ defeat in the wild-card round makes this postseason the first time since 2016 that the ballclub will not appear in the ALCS.
