Detroit Tigers manager A.J. Hinch on stunning the Houston Astros and now facing the Cleveland Guardians:
"We can continue to play with no pressure. Nobody expects us to be here, nobody expects us to have gotten here, and the way we got here some would call improbable and very unique for us. We're just trying to stack good days on good days. ...I think it shows is we can play with anybody. I said this to our team after we won, that everybody was saying we're not playoff tested. We're pretty tested now and we're heading into this series with a ton of confidence.;
the Astros still have a lot of reasons to be optimistic about the future, but it's fair to say this early exit marks the end of an era for Houston
also: it's wild that they traded so much for Yusei Kikuchi AND THEN HE WAS AWESOME but then never even got to pitch in October!