💬 QUOTED: "A city that doesn’t care about the odds has a baseball team to match.”

Over the past month and a half, the MLB’s Detroit Tigers have been hotter than Chris Hemsworth doing deep-knee bends. The team has won 31 of its last 44 games, and put an exclamation point on this magical run by clinching a playoff berth on Friday.

A team of density destiny? When the streak began, the Tigers had a 0.2% chance to make the playoffs (1 in 500), according to FanGraphs. They sat more than a dozen games back in their division, and about the same from a wild-card spot.

But then the Motor City Kitties caught fire, thanks to a combination of timely hitting, a stellar pitching staff (including presumptive Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal), the subtraction of strikeout-happy SS Javier Baez, and the steady hand of manager AJ Hinch.

👀 Looking ahead… The MLB playoffs kick off tomorrow with the Wild Card matchups (which will be finalized later today).

🏎️ STAT OF THE DAY: How much would you pay to drive like Max Verstappen? If the answer is $136,448 plus tax and delivery, then you’re in luck. Last week, Oracle Red Bull Racing announced a partnership with Memento Exclusives to sell an officially licensed racing simulator based on the team’s RB19 car, which ranks as the most dominant vehicle in F1 history after winning 21/22 races it entered in the 2023 season.

🤔 DID YOU KNOW? The first known recipe for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich appeared in The Boston Cooking School magazine in 1901 – alongside the headline: “It’s Peanut Butter Jelly Time” (probably).

📰 WORTH A READ: Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent? → (Behavioral Scientist)