The Cleveland Guardians have announced their starting pitchers for their big weekend set with the Minnesota Twins.

Cleveland has won 11 of their last 12 games and is running hot with a perfect blend of pitching, defense, and clutch hitting that has the team just 4 1/2 games back in the AL Central.

The Guardians hope a strong finish pushes them into a wild card spot for the MLB playoffs. Here's where they sit in the AL wild card standings.

The Guardians lost two games to the Red Sox to begin September and have lost two other games (by a combined three runs) since, are 80-71, and have whittled their run differential down to -25. They trail the Mariners by 3 games for the wildcard and the Tigers by 4.5 games for a division that should have been on ice in Detroit two weeks ago.

Gavin Williams struck out nine in five innings, Bo Naylor hit a two-run single and the Cleveland Guardians won their season-best sixth straight game, 4-0 over the Detroit Tigers

Once upon a time, the Guardians were 15 1/2 games behind the Tigers in the Central Division. So much has changed.

Tarik Skubal gave the Tigers a huge scare in his most recent start. The Cleveland Guardians are now giving Detroit a big scare, and the Tigers need their ace to deliver.