DETROIT: The Detroit Tigers secured their fourth straight American League Central division title on Sunday with a 3-0 victory over the Minnesota Twins.

The Tigers entered the final day of the regular season one game ahead of Kansas City atop the division, and with their victory left the Royals — back in baseball’s post-season for the first time in 29 years — with a wild-card berth.

The Royals will host Oakland in the AL wild card game on Tuesday, after the Athletics at last locked up their spot with a 4-0 victory over the Texas Rangers.

Oakland boasted baseball’s best record as of July 31 and appeared to be cruising toward the American League West division title.

But an offensive downturn saw the Anaheim Angels surge past them for the division crown, and it took starting pitcher Sonny Gray’s sparkling shut-out of the Rangers in their season finale to see the Athletics advance.

Gray allowed six hits with five strikeouts to earn the win and snap a string of three straight losing decisions.

Jed Lowrie hit a two-run single and Josh Reddick finished with two hits, a run-batted-in and a run scored.

The victory made Seattle’s 4-1 win over the Angels on Sunday moot.

The Mariners had hoped for a win that would have forced a one-game playoff on Monday for the second wild-card spot.

Now the winner of the Oakland-Kansas City wild-card game on Tuesday will face the Angels in the best-of-five division series starting on Thursday.

The other division series pits American League East champions Baltimore against the Tigers — who got seven and one-third scoreless innings from starting pitcher David Price in Sunday’s win.

Price limited the Twins to just four hits while striking out eight to register the third 15-win season of his career.

Ian Kinsler went 3-for-4 with a homer and two runs-batted-in and Torii Hunter knocked in a run for Detroit.

Detroit took the division crown in manager Brad Ausmus’ inaugural season at the helm.

“We’ve been kind of envisioning this celebration for a few of days now,” Ausmus said.

“Kansas City has played extremely well over the past week and pushed us to the limit. Ultimately, the guys we have, they have been through this. There wasn’t panic.” There were no playoff implications in Boston, but there was again a sense of history being made as the Red Sox hosted the Yankees in the final game of New York captain Derek Jeter’s career.

Honored by Boston prior to the game between the bitter American League East rivals, Jeter played as designated hitter in the Yankees’ 9-5 victory over the Red Sox.

In the third frame, with a runner on third, Jeter chopped a ball toward third and legged out the infield single that scored Japan’s Ichiro Suzuki.

Jeter, who made an emotional farewell to home fans in his last game at Yankee Stadium on Thursday, then departed, jogging off the field for the last time to a thunderous ovation from Boston fans.

“It’s the end of an era,” Yankees manager Joe Girardi said before the game.