lordstanley

Kiss my ass, ‘stros!

I don't think I've ever been more nervous before a hockey game than Game 6 of the Wings-Avs series in 1997. Wanted revenge on Clod Lemieux and the Arrogants so badly. This goal by Fedorov is when I realized it was happening.

Win or lose today, the Tigers finally have carved out some breathing room in the race for the bye into the ALDS. They're now 5 games up on Houston and 6.5 games up on Seattle with the Tigers having 34 games to play (the Astros have 36 games left, the Mariners have 35 games left). If the Tigers win today, they will win the season series 4-2 over Houston and hence win the tiebreaker. If the Tigers lose Wednesday, the season series will end up tied 3-3 so the next tiebreaker is the teams' record within their own division. The Tigers' AL Central record is 24-13 with 15 divisional games left to play. The Astros' AL West record is 16-17 with 19 divisional games left to play. That's a 6-game "lead" for the Tigers at the moment. Seattle has the tiebreaker over the Tigers because they won the season series 4-2.

Probably had a lot to do with the novelty of night games, as the next day the two teams drew under 10,000 for a Saturday day game. The first night game at Tiger stadium had been just 7 weeks earlier on June 15, 1948.

And it happened on the 74th anniversary of a famous walk involving the Tigers. Eddie Gaedel drew a 4-pitch walk at Comiskey from Tigers' pitcher Bob Cain on August 19, 1951. https://baseballhall.org/discover-more/stories/inside-pitch/bill-veeck-eddie-gaedel-the-birth-of-a-legend

I know some people thought that complaints earlier in the season about empty seats behind home plate were silly, but c'mon, the crowd cheering the ball four added to the occasion. As did the mist.

Guardians lose, thanks Arizona. The Tigers’ lead is now 9.0 games over KC and 9.5 games over Cleveland. The Tigers’ magic number on both teams is 27.

The slumping Milwaukee Brewers just got swept by the Cubs in a doubleheader and have now lost 3 of their past 4 games. Only the 2nd time since the 4th of July that they've lost consecutive games. They're 5 games ahead of the Tigers for best record in baseball.

The Tigers have won 9 of 12, and 15 of their past 22, and are now over .500 since the All Star Break at 16-15.

They've been shut out 4 of their past 5 games.

Dan and Andy call of the walkoff walk! Torres walkoff walk.mp3

Astros' ghost runner goes poof in the top of the 10th. Advantage Tigers. Go win it NOW!!

4 balls in play by the Tigers in the 9th inning, the Astros made an adventure of all of them. Extra innings we go.

9 scoreless innings. Go win it now!

Seattle has lost and is now 6 games back of the Tigers, with Houston 4 games back of the Tigers pending the outcome of this game. Man, the bye into the ALDS is sitting there for the Tigers to grab. Find a way to win tonight and then again tomorrow and it would be all but theirs with 33 games to go.

Not to jinx things, but the Astros haven’t scored a run in 23 innings.

Would hurt to strand a leadoff triple.

Struck out the side in the 5th. Skubal got angry against the 7-8-9 hitters.

Scoreless, but not exactly a scorching pitcher’s duel.

Happy to be wrong. Was the jersey flapping and hit the ball that way?

He’s safe. Ball was there in time.

Dan says should be only a short delay. MLB.com shows it now as Warmup. "Tonight's game will begin in a delay" wording never sits right with me. The game will be delayed, the game's start will be delayed, or the game will begin after a delay.

Dan Dickerson is superb. I love his voice, tone, style and knowledge. I will give him a pass on missed calls like last night because he admitted it right away. He reads the ball off the bat well and rarely does an excited jump in his voice end up with a fly ball that doesn’t at least threaten the fence. I think my only complaint about Dan is that he tends to really react a lot now to whether a ball or strike was called correctly. Sometimes without first letting those following by radio only what the call was. Example:”ooooo, that seemed to JUST miss the bottom corner”. Did he go “oooo” because the pitcher made a good pitch that was just a bit off, or did he go oooo because the pitch just missed the strike zone but was called a strike anyways.

Sweeney was rated the Dodgers’ #22 prospect by Baseball America or #28 by MLB Pipeline at the time he was acquired with Liranzo. Given that, playing 130 MLB games like he already has for the Tigers is more than I would have expected for his entire career.