Guardians win division, will face Detroit; Reds gain wild card berth

BREWERS 4, REDS 2 MILWAUKEE (AP) — Cincinnati lost its regular-season finale to Milwaukee but still reached the playoffs because the New York Mets fell to the Miami Marlins. Cincinnati entered Sunday knowing it could reach the playoffs if it beat Milwaukee or if the Mets lost to Miami. The Mets' 4-0 loss to the Marlins enabled the Reds to get the National League's third and final wild-card spot. The Reds and Mets both finished the season at 83-79, but the Reds owned the head-to-head tiebreaker after going 4-2 against the Mets this season. The Reds head to Los Angeles to begin a Wild Card Series against the defending World Series champion Dodgers on Tuesday. Cincinnati took an early 2-0 lead on leadoff homers by Elly De La Cruz in the second inning and TJ Friedl in the third. De La Cruz hit his 402-foot shot off Freddy Peralta, while Friedl delivered a 416-foot blast off DL Hall. Milwaukee cut the lead to 2-1 when Jackson Chourio and Brice Turang opened the third inning with back-to-back doubles. Danny Jansen put Milwaukee ahead 3-2 by hitting a two-run homer off Brady Singer in the fourth. Andrew Vaughn added a two-out RBI double off Nick Lodolo later in the inning to make it 4-2. Singer (14-12) struck out five but allowed three runs, five hits and one walk in 3 1/3 innings. Five Milwaukee relievers combined to hold the Reds hitless after the third inning. Abner Uribe retired the side in order in the ninth for his seventh save in nine opportunities. RED SOX 4, TIGERS 3 BOSTON (AP) — José De León pitched a career-high 6 2/3 innings in his first outing in two years, and Masataka Yoshida and David Hamilton homered to give Boston a victory over Detroit that clinched the AL Central title for the Cleveland Guardians. After each team wrapped up a playof berth during the series – the Red Sox on Friday and the Tigers on Saturday – they both sent out lineups for the regular-season finale that allowed some regulars to rest and others to get work if they needed it. De León, called up from Triple-A so the Red Sox could line up their starters for the wild-card round, allowed three runs on eight hits and three walks. He struck out eight. Greg Weissert pitched the ninth for his fourth save. The Tigers scratched ace Tarik Skubal after clinching a postseason spot on Saturday, even though they still could have won the division and the home-field advantage in the wild-card round that goes with it. Detroit needed a win Sunday and a Cleveland loss to Texas. Chris Paddack (5-12) allowed four runs on seven hits and four walks while striking out four in 4 1/3 innings. The Tigers took a 3-1 lead in the fourth on Javier Báez's three-run homer, but Boston answered in the bottom half with Hamilton's two-run shot and Jarren Duran's RBI double. GUARDIANS 9, RANGERS 8, 10 INNINGS CLEVELAND (AP) — Brayan Rocchio hit a three-run homer in the 10th inning and Cleveland rallied for a victory over Texas, putting an exclamation point on their improbable AL Central title. When the Detroit Tigers lost 4-3 at Boston earlier in the day, the Guardians completed the largest comeback to win a division or league championship in major league history. Texas took an 8-5 lead on pinch-hitter Rowdy Tellez's three-run homer off Zak Kent (1-0) in the top of the 10th. But with George Valera as the automatic runner on second base, Bo Naylor hit an RBI double to bring Cleveland within two. Petey Halpin drew a walk before Rocchio drove a 1-2 fastball from Jose Corniell (0-1) off the right-field foul pole to give the Guardians their ninth walk-off win this season. The Guardians (88-74) trailed 5-4 in the middle of the eighth when they found out they were division champs after Detroit's Parker Meadows flied out to Boston left fielder Jarren Duran. If the two teams had ended up tied, Cleveland still would have won the division based on the head-to-head tiebreaker after taking the season series.