lordstanley

Yes, so the magic number is the hornet of those. Right now, the Tigers’ magic number to clinch a playoff spot is 5: because 1 over Boston, 1 over Tampa, 3 over Seattle and 5 over Minnesota. To clinch the 2nd wildcard is 6, over K.C.

Yes, so the magic number is the hornet of those. Right now, the Tigers’ magic number to clinch a playoff spot is 5: because 1 over Boston, 1 over Tampa, 3 over Seattle and 5 over Minnesota. To clinch the 2nd wildcard is 6, over K.C.

I was thinking of a Magic Number thread, but probably a bit soon. However, if the Twins lose tonight so the Tigers would be 2 up with 5 to go and a magic number of 4, would be tempting ….

Nice vantage point of the runs scoring double.

A month ago never thought the Sept 24 game thread would have 9 pages. 9 posts, maybe.

Pitchers fired up.

American League ERA is safe. An 18th win would put him two ahead of a few AL pitchers with 16, so worst he would do is share it and even that is unlikely. Only guy within strikeouts range is Cole Ragans, 10 back.

This doesn’t seem like a game where the Tigers can afford to waste two on, one out opportunities. Scoreless after 4.

Game is on the MLB Network. Tigers feed.

I'm hoping this is Skubal's last regular season start. Keep winning, clinch by Saturday, rest Skubal Sunday and have him ready for the wildcard round. Is that too much to ask?

I wonder if any team as high up in the standings as KC was as of mid-August then had two 7-game losing streaks in a month like the Royals have.

Shades of Andrew Miller '06.

I was worried about Alim McNeil so "Mack will be day to day" is pretty good at least.

Good work, thanks. Yesterday was perfect example. The Lions scored a TD on the opening drive and then except for 5 minutes led the rest of the way. They had a 2-score lead throughout the entire 2nd half until under 4 minutes to go, at which point they promptly got two 1st downs to ice it. It was about as drama-free of a road game as can be.

Anyone heard from Hawk Harrelson during all of this?

And social media cares more about a commencement address at a tiny specialty college in the heartland.

I’m glad today is an off day. I can use the breather!

Even if under a restricted playoff format like one I’d prefer - a 15 team league, no divisions , top 3 make playoffs with the #1 team getting a bye into ALCS - there would be still some excitement around the Tigers. They’d be 4 games behind Baltimore and 3 games behind Houston in the race for that 3rd spot behind NYY and Cleveland. So would be going into final week with a shot at making it, albeit much less so than under the current format with 6 teams making it.

The point is that they’ve made up 10 games. The other ones who have done so probably had much better records at the start of their comebacks than the Tigers did.

We may as well cheer for a Yankees sweep of Baltimore in NY this week. You never know.

The past 6 weeks of this season may be as surprising as the first 4 months of the 2006 season.

Because they feel they can afford to be. No killer instinct, true, but I think if they really needed a score they would have got one.