Congratulations to Austin Hedges! Clearly Hedgie was the cog that made this thing go for that magical month a couple of years ago. Hedge’s team will play in October again. His old team, meanwhile, just lost on a walk-off hit by pitch to force them to need a win in tomorrow’s finale to avoid a .500 season.

Brayan Rocchio hit a three-run homer in the 10th inning and the Cleveland Guardians rallied for a 9-8 victory over the Texas Rangers, putting an exclamation point on their improbable AL Central title.

CLEVELAND — Brayan Rocchio hit a three-run home run in the bottom of the 10th inning, completing a four-run rally and lifting the American League Central champion Cleveland Guardians to a wild 9-8 win over the visiting Texas Rangers on Sunday in the teams’ regular-season finale.

One of the best things about MLB playoff races is that for many teams in them, every single game matters. The Cleveland Guardians were 12.5 games back of the division lead in the American League Central near the start of the month and have come all the way back to lead the division.

Brayan Rocchio hit a three-run homer in the 10th inning and the Cleveland Guardians rallied for a 9-8 victory over the Texas Rangers on Sunday, putting an exclamation point on their improbable AL Central title.

Burger, who broke a 2-for-28 skid with a two-run single in the third inning of the season finale, confirmed to The Dallas Morning News Sunday that he will have surgery later this week to repair a torn tendon sheath in his left wrist, a lingering issue from an injury he sustained in mid-August, only days after he’d returned from an IL stint.

During the Guardians' regular-season finale vs the Rangers, Cleveland secured the AL Central title when the Tigers lost. How it unfolded in Cleveland.

The Cleveland Guardians punched an improbable ticket to the Major League Baseball playoffs on Saturday with a 3-2 victory over the Texas Rangers -- sealed when C.J. Kayfus was hit