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When people have said that Schoop had been making hard contact and been somewhat unlucky the past couple of days, they weren't kidding.... glad to see him rewarded!

Jonathan Schoop Dong! Do you believe in Miracles???? YESSSSS

Unless something bad happens, I bet he gets thru 7

This is also a pretty bad offense, although not as bad as the Tigers so far lol

It's honestly shocking that they are making Montas work... I thought he'd be a road grader against this O

Scoreless streak ovah....

WTF was Oakland doing there?

I hope Pinder is OK.... goodness

Oh dear...

Without a doubt, Skubal is the Tigers best chance of a non-reliever All Star this year lol

I sort of get it because of the double header.... just a lot of games in a short period. Although Pineda doing what he did yesterday makes it look less necessary in hindsight.

My guess is that it's a joint venture between the two.... but that it makes sense that Hinch would like the idea of Willi Castro as well. From the Hinch perspective, the love affair with Willi Castro makes a lot of sense when you remember the role that Marwin Gonzalez played on all those winning Houston teams he had in the late '10s.... at least at the time anyway, Marwin could get you a solid .700-.800 range OPS with very good defense at any number of positions. At least in theory, Willi could be that guy.... except for the fact that he isn't good at defense and has generally been not good with the bat since the COVID 2020 year.

With Tampa, I don't know that it was anything more than Josh Lowe being ready for a callup and Meadows being the odd man out. Paredes is already back down in Durham after a brief callup.

(Stolen from r/motorcitykitties)

I'd settle for a ca. 2013 retro look from the offense today lol

Maybe AJ/Al are conspiring to make us feel better about Willi in LF?

Favorable match-up for Tarik Skubal today. Should feast against this O. (It won't matter, they'll still probably lose)

Its remarkable the pitching has held up as well as it has considering the injuries and how every inning is a pressure inning with this team. Just makes it even more enraging to watch the hitters lol

Probably right. But I really can't be that mad at Schoop because that first pitch 6 inches below the strike zone means that you have to swing to protect on that. He never stood a chance after that, even the best hitters in the league would struggle if sliders that far below the strike zone were getting called. It's pretty unprofessional. The Tigers did deserve to lose tonight, but that still sucks

I'm still pissed at the offense, but the umps absolutely sucked at the end there. Calling pitches 6 inches out of the zone strikes FFS

Another crappy ump call...

Good God this ump blows

Honestly happy to see it even though that was a strike... finally a little passion out of this lifeless club