SoCalTiger

Game one still hurts. We let it out of the bag. 
must win tomorrow. Twins playing with half a deck and sweeping us is unacceptable. 

11 minutes ago, casimir said:

I’m fine with Miller getting the ball then.  It didn’t work out.  It happens.  But I’d have been fine with Foley as well.  Honestly I’d have been fine with leaving Holton in.

To me, this game down to lack of offense.  Maeda held up his end, got them through 6 when they needed the innings.  Sure, Miller gave up a solo home run.  But the offense struggles again, 3 runs in 9 innings, strike outs galore against Ryan.

Lange and McKinstry are going to be blamed, maybe Miller, too.  For the sake of the pitching staff, it’s probably better to have lost in the 12th than go on further.  Lange is what he is now, and it’s not very good.  McKinstry booted it, and that sucks.  Can’t do that then.  It shouldn’t have gotten to the 12th.

Now they need Manning to go 6 and the offense needs to show up. And they probably do need to seriously consider sending Lange to Toledo to work on control.   He’s just not good right now.

Ok just as a reminder this is a message board and calm sound analysis moments after a crushing loss is not accepted.

3 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

absolutely terrible approach by Torkelson in the 11th with the game on the line all he needs is to poke the ball to right against a guy throwing him outside and he's till trying to pull everything. Terrible.

Tork's baseball instincts are very questionable. Platoon DH batting 7th is in his future.

3 minutes ago, 1776 said:

He and Meadows can split one.

Lang says "what about me" ?

3 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

It sounds like today was a good day to boycott extra innings!

Yes and Yes the runner sucks. Just play 3 normal innings and call it a tie if need be. Football and Hockey have them. Ties stink but it's the better alternative

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1 minute ago, chasfh said:

McKinstry on the bench looking at the iPad trying to figure out how he could have possibly given up that bomb.

He' looking for apartments in Toledo..

3 minutes ago, Edman85 said:

Lange has options, and it might be a good time to use them to bring up a fresh arm for the nightcap.

Do you think someone is in Detroit now ? That's foresight if so.

7 runs on one hit !  That's not easy to do.

This one hurts. A Gift we can not afford to give.

Why is Dan saying bad bounce...it was a ground ball...between his legs 

3 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Needed Urshela at third base for that. ****.

Over thinking the room. 

1 minute ago, Sports_Freak said:

This game was lost in the 10th inning with the Tigers terrible approach at the plate. 

We lost this game many times...

And now the white Flag ???

McStinky..chess piece...

1 minute ago, Motor City Sonics said:

If he gets out of this 5-4 there is some hope

Without Turks boner we would be out of this now scoreless.

langs pitchs are too wild to induce a swing and miss

Tork is just dumb

Lange pitching with a runner on........

Hinch not pitching Foley in the 8th and bunting in the 11th not so good. Bad day for the manager.

I hate bunting

Why didn't Foley close out the 8th with the game in hand ? Four out save and win in the bag. Foly was well rested.

Baez he’s out

I mean Verling is a great centerfielder and if Meadows is out then he will play there. As for replacement it could be Mallory on the roster playing DH rather than Perez or Badoo. It's a weaker outfield defensively but maybe Mallory cn help the hitting ?

26 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said:

I thought prior to Spring Training it was "his job to lose" because, while Baddoo was mostly dismissed, there was at least the thought that Meadows still had to prove he could hit in MLB, IIRC. And Baddoo, or Greene in CF, were the fallback options.

Whereas by the end of ST it was more like "OK, he's got this."

But my memory sucks so...

Aside from that... I mean... things change...

Here's an odd idea: The Org put Wenceel in the OF quite a bit last year in Toledo. Is Baddoo the fallback if Meadows needs some time in Toledo? Or Wenceel Perez?

Just a thought/ question.

Maybe neither ?

I would stick with meadows and maybe platoon him a little bit for awhile but he needs o play most days. We lead the league in defense because of our outfield of Greene-Meadows-Verling left to right and I would have them there 90 % of the games.  But that won't happen because Hinch loves moving players around.