How One Pitcher Is Helping Carry His Underdog Team to the World Series

The Detroit Tigers are the best underdog story in Major League Baseball’s postseason.

The Tigers are tied at one game in the American League Divisional Series with the Cleveland Guardians .

David Gergen : Tarik Skubal has emerged this year as the best pitcher in the world.

He's a throwback to old-fashioned American baseball values, from a time when a workhorse ace was most valuable thing a team could have.

The Tigers lost the World Series in 2006 , then had four straight playoff exits between 2011 and 2014 .

There is nothing in baseball quite like watching a pitcher at the height of his powers the way the southpaw is now.

If the Tigers hit enough, Skubal could have the kind of playoff run that comes around every 10-ish years .