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The Tigers have played .667 ball over the past 3 games.

SOMEBODY LET THE TIGERS GET LUKEWARM!!!

Play of the game.

Yeah, Javy saved the season with that diving catch.

Man hugs for everyone

I'll settle for 2-1 tonight if we get Berts in the playoffs.

If Cleveland and Detroit are tied after game 162 and face each in the wildcard round, it would be very similar to 2009. The wildcard round would break the tie, the Tigers would be on the road, and the winner advances to the ALDS. Instead of Game 163 it would be Games 163-165.

In preparation for attacking the American people when they gather to protest? Because deadly force is now on the table in Portland.

last year they had a horseshoe up their butts for the final 40 games. this year the exact opposite. baseball is a funny ol game.

Bailed out by the Monster twice tonight... The Tigers were momentarily favored in the division before that double when the Rangers went up 7-2.

Rangers beating Cleveland 4-2 in the 6th inning.

Boomers ruining things from the day they’re born.

Riley Greene gets tomorrow off to avoid 200 Ks?

I’m glad the Tigers won. I’m glad the Red Sox made it easy for them. I’m glad they didn’t get bumped from the playoffs after they were a sure thing for so long of even getting a bye. I’m not in a celebratory mood though. it never should’ve been a but by the skin of your teeth nailbiter on the next to the last day of the season.

Same calendar date as last year they clinched the playoffs.

Absolutely! I said in another thread earlier today that I would have been at least somewhat relieved if we did not win tonight and tomorrow, we back into the playoffs with an Astros loss tonight, and then lose 2-0 in the ALWC series, because I would have much, much preferred that to losing out on the playoffs entirely. But charging into the playoffs with a win on the field—I am more than merely relieved. I am STOKED!

Meanwhile, the Lions did nothing for Charlie Kirk and bitch slapped the Bears and Ravens.

That was surprisingly easy. The fans deserved that for all we have been through the past 2 weeks.

Tigers are BACK in the playoffs, and they clinch on the field! SUCK IT, NEGATIVE HORSE****!

You must not be listening to the Tigers radio feed because Bobby Scales is a really good analyst.

Tell you what, John: if we win today, i will start the game thread for all the remaining games in the regular season. 😁

Jahmai Jones is the only one showing up to play this week

Can someone inform the team they can't win with zero runs please?

I think he's pretty good, so I'm not the one to ask about this. Knows analytics and player dev stuff.

This is a good old-fashioned butt whooping. The only thing more disappointing than the US performance is the behavior from the US crowd.

Any lineup with a guy in Perez' slump batting 3rd is not a real lineup.

P.S. there's a mean part of me that actually hopes he'll live long enough to be brought to justice-preferably by having his money taken away and being forced to live in a remote place where he has to take a vow of silence.

I saw that he's referring to Portland as being 'war ravaged.' So he's finally calling what he's doing what it is-waging war against those who disagree with him.

Gotta pay that Alex Cobb signing somehow.

Pizza Boy probably would prefer to pitch Skubal on Sunday if it means they can win the division. Two home games with attendance, parking, and concession revenue. It'll help pay for the Alex Cobb terrible signing.

But pitching him Sunday would make him available for the WC round game 3 on 3 days rest and just game 3 of the ALDS on 4 days rest. Not pitching Sunday would give him plenty of rest for game 1 of the WC, and for the ALDS games 2, with 4 days rest, and game 5 if needed also with 4 days rest. If no game 5 is needed, he could start games 1 & 5 of the ALCS on 6 days and 4 days rest, respectively. If ALDS game 5 is needed, he could start game 4 of the ALCS with 4 days off, and for game 7 he'd get 3 days rest. So it seems that resting him on Sunday would make sure he pitches in the WC series, and makes him available and rested twice for each of the subsequent series including the last game of ALCS and ALDS series. If he is used on Sunday for home field advantage, he might not even get a chance to pitch in the post season at all if the WC ends in a two game sweep of the Tigers. If the Tigers advance, he would get one game in the ALCS, and 2 in the ALDS. I'm sure Hinch would agree with me. In fact, that may be him on the phone right now.

This effing team.

Ha! 😉 Hey - did I ever tell you guys/gals that I was told to "F*ck Off" by Al Kaline? 😁 The crazy thing about that is it was 45 years ago! Time just gets away from us.

It wouldn't of mattered who they sent in to pitch the 9th, the results probably would have been the same so AJ didn't have much choice. I don't feel bad for him though since he has made some pretty bad decision that contributed to a few loses. The way he uses Carpenter is terrible. The biggest problem is that Harris thought he didn't need to pick up any quality players at the deadline. He's trying to compete with a pen he picked up at the dollar store. I hope they don't bring back a lot these pitchers and can pick up a quality set up man and a closer and not someone from waivers or a 40 year old they think they can fix.

Say what you will about Harris’ deadline, but we do have the #1 ranked farm system. Expecting him to come into Avilas mess and have a #1 farm system and a major league team poised to make a deep playoff run after a decade of being garbage in both areas is a bit aggressive. what he does this offseason should be the mark of if he is a legitimately capable GM

One could say that he's so focused on his long-term plan that he can't make adjustments when given a current opportunity to win.

Bert, It's your turn to start the game thread. Biff failed.

I can't believe that the Tigers won't take Perez out of the lineup. He is killing the offense.

I get that it’s Aroldis Chapman throwing triple digits and all, but there were some pitches in the fat part that major league hitters should be able to do something with.

Texas 7 Cleveland 2

I only feel that way about half of them.

That pitch to Javy might’ve been a strike to Manute Bol

Zoe Saldana is ruining her hotness cred with these TMobile ads.

JAH-MANJI!

OK! Thanks for not striking out and then hitting into a double play just there!

Scoreless here but a lot of runs on the out of town scoreboard. Texas leading Cleveland 4-2, Yankees trailing Baltimore 3-2, Toronto tied with Tampa 2-2

I was kind of hoping for thread starter chaos.

I’m not listening to much, but my son is in Chicago this weekend for Riot Fest. He’s 23 and he’s never been in a big city with his friends without parental supervision and he’s having the time of his life staying at the Hilton across from Grant Park. Other than Weird Al, I’m not sure who else he saw today and I’m not expecting him to constantly update me. Tomorrow among other things, he’s seeing Jack White and The Beach Boys. Tomorrow Green Day closes the show with about two hours of music. He went to the museum of science and industry this morning and was completely blown away. Everything is occurring at Douglas Park and there’s more groups playing in three days than I care to count. I’m really happy for him. I did count and there’s roughly 90 bands https://riotfest.org/chicago/lineup/