We like the Cleveland Guardians to defeat the Detroit Tigers on Saturday for a number of reasons. Here are some of the more important ones:

Even though Detroit was able to sweep the Astros in their Wildcard series, I don't see them continuing their success against Cleveland.

The Guardians have some of the best pitching in the MLB and will limit runs all series long against this sub-par Detroit lineup.

In their last five games against each other, the Guardians have won four of them.

Tanner Bibee will start for Cleveland today. His last two starts against Detroit have both ended up in a CLE win.

Pitching has been Detroits strength too. But, it's just a matter of time before they run out of steam with all of the pitchers they use.

Cleveland is the better side and we expect them to win Game 1 and take a series lead.

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