Sports_Freak

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14 miles away and totally dry. Cool but dry.

Blue skies and a dry driveway. I was only kidding, Tigers. It's dry!!

Better call the game, it may rain.

I don't think extras would have been kind to the Tigers. We were already deep into our weak bullpen. That's why I couldn't understand not pinch running for Tork. It was pretty much a no-brainer call. Hinch nobrained it...lol

Naw...extra innings never go that deep anymore. Even 11 innings is rare. In the old days, I would agree.

Ever see Leyland go off on Bonds? I don't think he would tolerate too much misbehaving.

We don't know that they didn't cheat. Sure, they didn't get caught but you never know. Stealing signs was always a part of baseball but some may consider it cheating.

Hinch really escaped fans wrath. Can you imagine if Javy got a hit and Tork got thrown out at home on a bang bang play? Not using a pinch runner was a very lazy piece of managing. Matt V. bailed him out...

Anderson and Leyland were much more established and respected skippers.

I agree 100%. I was always judged by my older brothers behavior. He was a major trouble maker. My problem with Cora is all the runners getting thrown out at home plate, some by a mile. With a team having problems scoring runs, giving away outs sucks.

Oh...ok. That makes sense, the other Cora was Boston manager, right?

But I really think Hinch learned an important lesson from that. He would never put up with that now, I bet. At least, I hope. Hiring Cora really isn't a good look, he was the bench coach in Houston at the time?

What's bad is Toronto screwing up on defense. After the sac bunt, Javy hit a comebacker to the mound. Romano didn't even look at 3rd base. He would have had Tork by a mile. I didn't like the bunt either. After Tork blooped his single, I was calling for a pinch runner. Hinch should have used one, another poor manager decision, IMO.

He attempted a bunt that went foul. The 3rd baseman than played in looking for the bunt. Perez bunted anyway, it was actually a good sac bunt. At least, it got the job done. But he definitely wasn't bunting for a hit...

3 positions platooned too. That's kind of a lot.

Looking at stats may show some improvements. I don't really study them. I bet their SP is better this year? And the BP is worse? And I would say their defense is better, though I may be wrong in all of these because, like I said, I don't really look at stats. But, IMO, Hinch should be safe. Harris just extended him and I'm sure any problems the Tigers have would be more of a roster construction problem over a manager issue.

Runs scored or allowed will change year to year. Yes, this year is a bit better after this many games but going by wins and losses, it's just about the same. Improving against the AL East should be the goal, last year our record against them was horrible. 5-5 so far? That has to be better than last season, so far.

Improved? I think their record is about the same as last year. And our pitching, which has kept us in games, is fading fast. At least, our bullpen. I don't think firing Hich would do any good. Harris built this team and his lack of line-up upgrades is the main problem. Whats Hinch supposed to do? Other than stop leading Riley off? 😅😅

The old attitude anytime a manager gets fired...you can't fire 25 (26 now) players but you can fire one guy. Sometimes a change of manager lights a fire under the players. But I don't think it would help the 2024 Tigers.

75 home runs in the game and he has one of our better hitters bunt in the 9th inning.. We need a real manager...

3 out of 4 against Toronto. After we got blown out in the 1st game, I really thought we would get swept. Glad and happy I was totally wrong

Did they show up? I don't recognize them.

Tork got that winning rally going...with 2 strikes on him.

14 freakin' runs. A months worth for this team.