Kansas City, Mo. — This really was the only way this oddball season could end — in the rain and unsure whether the last game on the 2020 schedule was going to be, in fact, the last game.
The Tigers boarded their flight back to Detroit Sunday afternoon after a 3-1 loss to the Royals still waiting to find out if they had one or two more games to play. Their fate would be determined by the results of the game between the Cardinals and Brewers that started at 3 p.m. Eastern.
Sometime before they landed, they knew.