1. Houston Astros
If you're not rooting for the Detroit Tigers to advance to the ALDS, do you even like fun? They have been the best team in baseball for about the past two months, going from being irrelevant to center stage in the biggest setting. Yesterday, we saw Tarik Skubal deliver a dominant performance on the mound, and the offense did enough to give the bullpen some cushion. After Skubal, they have no one proven in their rotation ready to step in and take the ball behind him. For the past few months, it's been a by-committee approach that manager AJ Hinch has had down to a science. He has a great read on his roster and when to push certain buttons, and it's fair to expect him to manage his way to a win across the next two games. With that being said, these are still the Houston Astros who have been proven playoff performers for nearly a decade now, and it would be unfair to expect them to go down without a fight. On paper, they'll have the starting pitching advantage and better offense for the rest of the series, but sometimes, destiny prevails, which is what these Tigers are riding on right now.
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