holygoat

This ump has been ****e for both teams today.

FFS

The ump is doing Montero dirty.

Dang, thought Javy had a double there.

Stream froze just before Riley's AB. Gonna have to catch it on replay.

I have this dark feeling that 7 will not be enough to win this game.

When's the last time Kahnle had a clean outing?

Great AB by Sweeney there.

Get Mize outta there.

Shoulda let him have 1st.

Lmfao! Riley with a very audible F**K! after that pop up

HA HA HA! Carp doing Carp sht.

Okay, enough, Benetti. You made your point.

Mize is crumbling. I don't like where this is going...

There it is.

Disappointed in Benetti for passing on the "see you on the other side" joke after Adell made the final out there.

This Logan dude is pretty bad...

There was a pretty bad called-ball that the Tigers benefitted from early in the 2nd.

Nice inning for Casey. Got his pitch count back to reasonable territory.

Dang, was hoping the Tigers could open a can there.

Shoulda placed the bet.

Riley did a thing!

Harris would've essentially had to replace every pitcher not named Skubal at the deadline to make the sort of impact you're talking about, and that's not realistic -- nor is it wise, IMO. I would've liked one higher-end RP and another bat, but I don't think even that would be worth the extra five wins to improve them to .500 over this 7-17 slump. And short of receiving an impact player with multiple years of control in return, I don't want Harris trading any of our top three prospects. (4 and 5 are redundant, so I'm way more open to moving one of them, but without knowing what they could fetch at the deadline, I'd rather he wait for the off-season to make that sort of move.) Harris's deadline moves didn't help the team much (other than Finnegan), but there was no way to know how bad the pitching was gonna be post-deadline. It's been bad enough to argue that whatever Harris could've received for Clark, McGonigal and Rainer still wouldn't have pulled the Tigers out of this slump -- Suarez's pathetic performance certainly wouldn't have helped -- and we'd still have Cleveland climbing up our ass, only with no future assets in the minors.

The question isn't will Cleveland cool off, it's will they cool off enough to matter? Because even if they cool off to, say, .500 to close out the season, that's more than enough to pass the Tigers based on the last month of play. Our pitching, which was our strength when we were cruising, is now a loaded diaper after injuries and regression. Other than Skubal, who can we confidently project to be reliable going forward? I'm not giving up, because baseball, but my faith in the team has diminished to the point where I kind of go into each game expecting them to lose now.

Ump called a pretty good game until that pitch to Zach. Wow.