Casey Mize is the headliner here. The Tigers are lining him up to come off the 15-day IL to start Sunday's matinee in Cleveland, his first big-league action since an adductor strain shelved him. He follows Tarik Skubal's return Saturday, so by the time first pitch lands at 1:40 PM ET, Detroit has reassembled basically its whole top-of-rotation in 48 hours. The vibes could not be more opposite. Detroit is 4-1 over its last 5, capped by an 11-0 demolition of the Twins on Wednesday. Cleveland just got swept at home by the Yankees and has dropped 4 in a row, the kind of stretch that ended a 31-series streak without a sweep — the longest active run in the AL until Aaron Boone's team kicked the door in. Cleveland is still the team with the better record (37-33 vs. 29-40) and still has Jose Ramirez carrying the lineup, but the bats went cold against New York and the bullpen is starting to look stretched. A Sunday day game after getting swept is a tough emotional spot, and now they have to deal with a Tigers club that has actually been the AL's hottest team in June outside the standings. The Tigers' injury list is its own horror novel — Verlander, Jobe, Olson, Meadows, Sweeney all on the shelf — but the guys actually on the active roster have been mashing. Riley Greene, Spencer Torkelson and Kerry Carpenter keep stacking productive at-bats, and the lineup just put up 26 runs over the last 3 games at Comerica. Cleveland counters with a deep, contact-first group that has to find some life against a Mize who, on paper, should be on a pitch count. Sunday's series finale carries some real divisional weight too. The AL Central is a jump-ball race once you look past the Tigers' record — Detroit is 11 back but has the pitching to make a second-half push if Skubal and Mize both stick. Stealing 2 of 3 in Cleveland with both of them on the bump would be exactly the kind of week that flips the chart.