For the first time in many a year, the Detroit Tigers found themselves in a playoff run in 2024, playing meaningful games into September. While they ultimately lost to Cleveland in the American League Division Series, the run they went on was one heck of a fun roller-coaster. It provided weary fans a welcome respite from the mediocrity to which they’d become sadly accustomed over the last decade.
We’ll take a look back at that magical September, where the odds of the Tigers making the playoffs went from “laughably miniscule” to “not insignificant” to “could they actually pull this off?