Japanese lefty Yusei Kikuchi, who gave the Houston Astros a boost in their push to the postseason, will not pitch in the playoffs after his team was swept Wednesday in Major League Baseball’s playoffs. The Detroit Tigers wrapped up their best-of-three American League wildcard series at Houston’s Minute Maid Park with a 5-2 win after Andy Ibanez’s tie-breaking three-run eighth-inning double. Kikuchi, who went 5-1 with a 2.70 ERA since a late-July trade brought him to Houston from the Toronto Blue Jays, was one of three starting pitchers on the Astros’ roster but Houston’s eighth straight postse…