Currently mired in a five-game losing streak, which is part of an overall 1-9 stretch in their last 10 games, the Tigers have been slipping. The once-buried Guardians are now just six games back of Detroit (with six head-to-head matchups remaining), making the division race a lot more interesting than it projected to be even a couple weeks ago.

"When a team is going through adversity, you're going to see what the team is made of," Tarik Skubal said after the Detroit Tigers' 12th loss in 13 games.