09/18/2023 10:10pm EDT Detroit Tigers vs Los Angeles Dodgers

[casimir]

  

Detroit Tigers vs Los Angeles Dodgers

Watch:  Dodgers - SportsNet LA, Tigers - Bally Sports Detroit, National - MLBN (out-of-market only)
Listen:  Dodgers - Dodgers Radio AM570, KTNQ 1020, Tigers - 97.1 The Ticket

[romad1]

Please destroy them, Eduardo

[Tenacious D]

Not gonna call this a must win—pretty much a certain win.  Tigers lineup hits at least 3 dingers tonight.  Take it to Vegas.

[chasfh]

Batting thirrrd, the big man, Miguel Cabrera.

[chasfh]

Wow, I don’t know what you guys are seeing, but there is a completely clean screen for the top of the first inning of this game. No score box, no crawl, no graphics of any kind. Throwback. 

[chasfh]

Same look for the bottom of the first, too. I like it! Game looks bigger on the screen without all the graphics.

There is one graphic, though, the strike box and pitch speed. Nothing else. Nice.

[chasfh]

Oops, they fixed the problem. What a shame … 😁

Edited September 19, 2023 by chasfh

[Jim Cowan]

JD still loves the opposite field.

[chasfh]

This Eduardo-Will Smith battle was a beauty. Luckily the liner he laced went right out to the right fielder. Run scoring notwithstanding, not the worst outcome.

[chasfh]

J. D. ❤️ Eduardo

[Tiger337]

JD had some injuries which I thought would break him this year, but he keeps coming back strong.  

[Tiger337]

So, Rodriguez is injured.  It would be just the Tigers luck for it to be something serious and Eduardo opts in.  

[lordstanley]

Jake Rogers reaches 20 home runs. He has had 307 ABs. Carpenter also has 20, in 374 ABs.

5-3 Dodgers.

Edited September 19, 2023 by lordstanley

[Jim Cowan]

38 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

Jake Rogers reaches 20 home runs. He has had 307 ABs. Carpenter also has 20, in 374 ABs.

5-3 Dodgers.

I love Jake Rogers.  It seems like Harris tried to trade him to the Dodgers but man, if you offer me a catcher with top-quartile defense who hits 30 home runs in 450 AB's, then I don't care if he "controls the strike zone", he is a core player who appears in the All Star game every year if he gets the playing time that he has earned.

[Jim Cowan]

Tigers catchers who have hit 20 home runs:  Lance Parrish, Matt Nokes...did Rodriguez ever hit 20?

[Jim Cowan]

Just now, Jim Cowan said:

Tigers catchers who have hit 20 home runs:  Lance Parrish, Matt Nokes...did Rodriguez ever hit 20?

Doh, Bill Freehan.

[gehringer_2]

17 minutes ago, Jim Cowan said:

I love Jake Rogers.  It seems like Harris tried to trade him to the Dodgers but man, if you offer me a catcher with top-quartile defense who hits 30 home runs in 450 AB's, then I don't care if he "controls the strike zone", he is a core player who appears in the All Star game every year if he gets the playing time that he has earned.

Playing the best players is so yesterdays tech. 

Jake is going to keep smiling and being a good teammate, because he's tied to the Tigers until 2027, but I'd guess he was not the happiest person the Dodger deal fell apart.

Edited September 19, 2023 by gehringer_2

[Jim Cowan]

1 minute ago, gehringer_2 said:

Playing the best players is so yesterdays tech. 

I know, I'm bracing myself for the next person to tell me that "the game has changed".

[lordstanley]

1 hour ago, Jim Cowan said:

Tigers catchers who have hit 20 home runs:  Lance Parrish, Matt Nokes...did Rodriguez ever hit 20?

 

[lordstanley]

2 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

So, Rodriguez is injured.  It would be just the Tigers luck for it to be something serious and Eduardo opts in.  

 

[1776]

Of the Opening Day starting five pitchers, Joey Wentz is very likely to be the only one still active and pitching at the end of the season. So goes the Tigers luck.

Edited September 19, 2023 by 1776

[romad1]

5 hours ago, Jim Cowan said:

I know, I'm bracing myself for the next person to tell me that "the game has changed".

 

[RandyMarsh]

Haven't been watching him much but atleast statistically EROD seems to be struggling quite a bit since around the deadline. Its like every start he either struggles peripherally, in base stats or both.

If the season was a month longer and he kept this up he may have ended up pitching himself into not opting out. 

[casimir]

33 minutes ago, RandyMarsh said:

Haven't been watching him much but atleast statistically EROD seems to be struggling quite a bit since around the deadline. Its like every start he either struggles peripherally, in base stats or both.

If the season was a month longer and he kept this up he may have ended up pitching himself into not opting out. 

[RatkoVarda]

7 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

Playing the best players is so yesterdays tech. 

Jake is going to keep smiling and being a good teammate, because he's tied to the Tigers until 2027, but I'd guess he was not the happiest person the Dodger deal fell apart.

if he got traded to LAD, it would have seriously affected his career, stuck behind one of the best Cs in baseball for 3.5 years, getting 60 starts a year