IdahoBert

You are my Jimi Hendrix minus the overdosing, of course.

I can’t see how making a SP go a certain amount of innings has anything to do with the way this game has ever been played. The bull pen strategy or whatever you wish to call it is only a direct result of pitchers going on the DL because every pitch can result in a home run and they’re injuring themselves trying to avoid that. If they’re going have a rule about pitching a certain number of innings, they should add the 10 run mercy rule and be honest about the Mickey Mouse nature of these changes. Of course, I don’t know what their series of ifs, ands, or buts are that will adjudicate all these possible complications. If they’re going to do anything, they should deaden the ball so pitchers are not throwing their arms out of whack and getting TJ surgery for fear of giving up a plethora of long balls.

I have to admit, I have rarely had cause to use this term in any context, but it really applies to the energy you see exhibited on this field by these young guys. The unabashed joy they share is really special.

This is really good way of putting it and I entirely agree. I had hoped that we would have this kind of record by this time, but I didn’t expect it to be achieved in such dramatic fashion and so late in the season after so many previous missteps.

If the scions of some other corporate entity owned the Detroit Tigers, I wonder how the “home run celebration“ would change.

I remain amazed that after the July trade deadline, when I assumed this team had pulled the plug on any hopes for this season, that they would propel themselves into a future that is happening now. This late charge is dazzling and exceeds anything I had dared hope for. These guys have a great esprit de corps that is tangible and infectious, and if there actually is a subjective or affective side to this game that has real effects when combined with good coaching and training, this bottled lightning they have discovered is a pure joy to witness.

I’m OK with the way this game ended. I got swept up into the frenzy, but I’m glad we at least won.

That inning turned out to be much ado about nothing. — Shakespeare

Does replacing Carp with Malloy qualify as overmanaging? Asking for a friend.

Parker Meadows triples

I guess they used Hurter as much as they felt comfortable using him with the future in mind which is a rational decision. Hopefully we can get to Soto.

So did we just throw in the towel?

Pérez runs us out of the inning.

Wenceel Pérez singles to start the two out rally.

If the Tigers could have one of those classic, as of late, 5-run innings that would be great.

Hurter is being pretty economical with his pitch count.

This game could go both ways.,

A “group effort no no” sounds sort of dicey.

Ruh-roh, it’s one of those games…

Slow game thread tonight. So is somebody handing out free money on the Internet? Shoot me a link.

Good 3rd inning by Hurter

CARP BOMB

This series with Baltimore is where the rubber really meets the road. I’m just looking forward to some good or even hopeful play rather than bad play. But this team has surprised the heck out of me and a lot of us in this recent run and it’s completely legitimate to get excited about a wildcard, although I find it hard to invest too much emotion into it myself. But I want to reiterate how shocked I am by the successes and how entertaining and hopeful this team’s play has been these last few weeks. In my lifetime, we’ve won two World Series which were spectacular and glorious, and we’ve lost two that were really, really painful. So I’ve known great joy, but I’m philosophical about this and it’s sort of like walking to school uphill both to and from and eating the bark off of trees and being grateful. I’m going to be grateful for all the unexpected good signs this season has had to offer and however many more games we win I will be pretty much OK. For fans who haven’t enjoyed these heights I really want this for you. You deserve it. Good luck to us all in however our hopes and dreams may play out. This series will be a signature test.

I was looking for that in my photo collection and couldn’t find it so thanks now I have it.