Detroit Tigers World Series Bound! (Well, We Can Dream)

Tigers celebrate Friday night.

Ok, no one, and we mean no one, thought earlier in the season that the Detroit Tigers would end up in the playoffs.

And then Friday night, Tiger fans, even ones at the Detroit Red Wings exhibition game at Little Caesars Arena cheered when learning that the Tigers had clinced a playoff spot, beating the lowly Chicago White Sox 4-1.

So, yes, it's possible that the Tigers could end up in the World Series. 

Possible, but not probable. But who knows? 

Sunday's game against the White Sox is the last scheduled game of the season.

Here's what some of the local columnist had to say:

Detroit News' Bob Wojnowski, aka Wojo:

Once they grasped it, they weren’t letting go. Once they figured out where they were headed, there was no turning back, and no turning away.

The Tigers completed one leg of an incredible journey, with room and time to spare. Comerica Park shook as it did a decade ago, and it might take another decade to figure out what we witnessed, and what’s still ahead. The Tigers roared back into the playoffs with ferocity and audacity, clinching a wild-card berth with a 4-1 beating of the White Sox Friday night.

Detroit Free Press' Jeff Seidel

Trying to remember every second of this.

Because the Tigers just did something absolutely remarkable. This team was 55-63 — eight games under .500 — on Aug. 10. They had traded productive major-leaguers (hey, Jack Flaherty) and were left for dead — or at least a high draft pick.

But they kept fighting, kept working, kept battling, kept playing one game at a time — like Hinch preaches — but most importantly, kept winning, and here they are in the playoffs.