5/9/25 6:40PM Rangers @ Tigers

[monkeytargets39]

32 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

But Skubal's move in the last inning he pitched along with Torres's adroitness to give him a breather after Skub mouthed " I'm tired" may have actually saved him the game,

That was fine.  I was talking about Adonis Garcia asking for time before a pitch had even been thrown in his at bat.  

[chasfh]

27 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

The statement “I’m tired“ made me wonder about Mickey Lolich’s high-pitch totals “back in the day“ so I looked it up and this is what Google AI gobbledygook told me. It told me that he pitched for the Detroit Tigers against the Detroit Tigers:

 

AI Overview

Mickey Lolich threw a total of 170 pitches in a single game, an 11-inning complete game, on Father's Day in 1974. The game was played at Tiger Stadium against the Detroit Tigers. Lolich also threw an 11-inning complete game, with the Tigers winning the game in a walk-off. 

 

 

 

 

I love Mickey, but there’s no way he pitched every pitch with anywhere near the same intensity that pitchers today do. The only other possible reason is that today’s pitchers are far, far weaker than pitchers from fifty and more years ago, and that does not pass any reasonable smell test. 

[Tiger337]

1 hour ago, IdahoBert said:

The statement “I’m tired“ made me wonder about Mickey Lolich’s high-pitch totals “back in the day“ so I looked it up and this is what Google AI gobbledygook told me. It told me that he pitched for the Detroit Tigers against the Detroit Tigers:

 

AI Overview

Mickey Lolich threw a total of 170 pitches in a single game, an 11-inning complete game, on Father's Day in 1974. The game was played at Tiger Stadium against the Detroit Tigers. Lolich also threw an 11-inning complete game, with the Tigers winning the game in a walk-off. 

 

 

 

 

I once threw about 150 pitches as a reliever in a Little League game.  I came into the game when the starter allowed 7 runs in the first  inning without retiring a batter.  I then pitched my team to a 23-16 victory.  Lots of walks and errors and an umpire with a small strike zone!  Those games must have been torture to watch.   

Edited May 10 by Tiger337

[Tigeraholic1]

1 minute ago, Tiger337 said:

I once threw about 150 pitches as a reliever in a Little League game.  I came into the game when the starter allowed 7 runs in the first  inning without retiring a batter.  I then pitched my team to a 23-16 victory.  Lots of walks and errors.   Those games must have been torture to watch.   

Legend

[IdahoBert]

33 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I love Mickey, but there’s no way he pitched every pitch with anywhere near the same intensity that pitchers today do. The only other possible reason is that today’s pitchers are far, far weaker than pitchers from fifty and more years ago, and that does not pass any reasonable smell test. 

They all “stayed within themselves“ and “pitched to the score“ so they were able to log more innings and start more games. There’s no way to compare the different eras. 

[Klondike]

14 hours ago, RandyMarsh said:

Speedy CF bats leadoff, scrappy 2b that can "handle the bat" bats 2nd and the slugging 1B/DH/RF occupy the middle of the order. Bottom of the order is light hitting SS and Catcher that calls a good game. 

Circa 76'

[Klondike]

Skubal has only 1 walk in his last 50 innings!

Edited May 10 by Klondike

[chasfh]

18 minutes ago, Klondike said:

Skubal has only 1 walk in his last 50 innings!

Coincidentally, I heard on the tigers territory pod that his recent run is also 50 strikeouts against one walk! That’s like a doctored OOTP pitcher.

[monkeytargets39]

1 hour ago, Tiger337 said:

I once threw about 150 pitches as a reliever in a Little League game.  I came into the game when the starter allowed 7 runs in the first  inning without retiring a batter.  I then pitched my team to a 23-16 victory.  Lots of walks and errors and an umpire with a small strike zone!  Those games must have been torture to watch.   

You were what Kenta Maeda wishes he was

[Tiger337]

8 minutes ago, monkeytargets39 said:

You were what Kenta Maeda wishes he was

I got the win.  That's all that matters.   

[IdahoBert]

34 minutes ago, Klondike said:

Skubal has only 1 walk in his last 50 innings!

This is utterly amazing. I suppose it’s happened before, but it’s pretty much new to me in terms of paying attention game by game, pitch by pitch.

[casimir]

17 hours ago, Crazy Cat Gentleman said:

wonder if the Tigers suspected they didn't get the out at 2nd.

That was brilliant.  I don't think a slow motion replay was shown on the broadcast.  I suspect Torres felt the runners hit hit the bag before the ball hit his palm and that's why he continued the play.  And everybody else on the field followed suit.  The rundown was set up, even Skubal charging towards the plate.  Such a heads up play by all involved.  How often does that situation arise?  There was no delay on the Tigers.

[casimir]

17 hours ago, chasfh said:

Not exactly: Two hours, one minute.

Hinch coming out to argue the foul tip was clutch.  He wanted folks to get their money's worth.

[casimir]

16 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

Let's play 2!!

My dad texted this to me Thursday.  I replied "Let's win two!"

Y'all are welcome.

[TigerNation]

2 hours ago, Klondike said:

Skubal has only 1 walk in his last 50 innings!

He has 5 BB in 47.2 IP this year.

[casimir]

16 hours ago, chasfh said:

It’s even worse than that: they run two minutes of commercials; then have a 15-second tease of what’s coming up next; then have two more minutes of commercials; then another 15-second tease; then two more minutes of commercials; and then the unwatchable post-game tripe begins.

This is one of the reasons I like to record the game and start watching it from the beginning while the game is going on.  I can zip through the commercials.

I've also taken to trying to get Hinch's post game comments more recently.  There's a lot of fluff between the final out and his postgame presser.

[IdahoBert]

13 minutes ago, casimir said:

That was brilliant.  I don't think a slow motion replay was shown on the broadcast.  I suspect Torres felt the runners hit hit the bag before the ball hit his palm and that's why he continued the play.  And everybody else on the field followed suit.  The rundown was set up, even Skubal charging towards the plate.  Such a heads up play by all involved.  How often does that situation arise?  There was no delay on the Tigers.

That was such heads up play it made me gasp. I don’t know if they could conceivably imagine something like this happening and have a plan in mind when it does or not. I just don’t remember seeing something like this before.

[IdahoBert]

8 minutes ago, casimir said:

I've also taken to trying to get Hinch's post game comments more recently.  There's a lot of fluff between the final out and his postgame presser.

You are being kind by only referring to it as “fluff.“ 

[chasfh]

34 minutes ago, casimir said:

This is one of the reasons I like to record the game and start watching it from the beginning while the game is going on.  I can zip through the commercials.

I've also taken to trying to get Hinch's post game comments more recently.  There's a lot of fluff between the final out and his postgame presser.

My brother likes doing that with Lions games, too. I don't like that because then I can talk about the game with people, or follow up on something I see online, because spoilers.

[chasfh]

38 minutes ago, TigerNation said:

He has 5 BB in 47.2 IP this year.

That is simply otherworldly.

[Sports_Freak]

15 minutes ago, chasfh said:

My brother likes doing that with Lions games, too. I don't like that because then I can talk about the game with people, or follow up on something I see online, because spoilers.

Exactly. I have a great example of this...several years ago, I recorded the UM-MSU football game. I was just about caught up to the very end of the game, a sure UM win. The phone rang, my (ex) mother-in-law. She says. "Can you believe Michigan State blocked that kick and won the game?" Ugh....UM was just about to punt. The rest is....history.

[chasfh]

1 minute ago, Sports_Freak said:

Exactly. I have a great example of this...several years ago, I recorded the UM-MSU football game. I was just about caught up to the very end of the game, a sure UM win. The phone rang, my (ex) mother-in-law. She says. "Can you believe Michigan State blocked that kick and won the game?" Ugh....UM was just about to punt. The rest is....history.

I experienced the same thing for Game 163 in 2009. I was about maybe 10 minutes behind live. Tigers and Twins tied in the 12th. Twins had just intentionally walked Ryan Raburn to load the bases. Then the phone rang: it was my good baseball buddy. I knew he was calling me because the game was over and he wanted to talk about it. I let the call go. Then Inge came up and I saw the ball graze his jersey, and for a second and a half I thought, oh my god, we won, we won, he called me because we won! But then, of course, they didn't call the hit by pitch, and at that very moment I knew we must have lost. Sure enough, Inge forced Miggy at home, Gerald Laird struck out to end the inning, and I didn't even bother watching the bottom of the inning, because I knew the game was over since my buddy had called. I looked up the result and called him back and told him this story.

[Sports_Freak]

2 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I experienced the same thing for Game 163 in 2009. I was about maybe 10 minutes behind live. Tigers and Twins tied in the 12th. Twins had just intentionally walked Ryan Raburn to load the bases. Then the phone rang: it was my good baseball buddy. I knew he was calling me because the game was over and he wanted to talk about it. I let the call go. Then Inge came up and I saw the ball graze his jersey, and for a second and a half I thought, oh my god, we won, we won, he called me because we won! But then, of course, they didn't call the hit by pitch, and at that very moment I knew we must have lost. Sure enough, Inge forced Miggy at home, Gerald Laird struck out to end the inning, and I didn't even bother watching the bottom of the inning, because I knew the game was over since my buddy had called. I looked up the result and called him back and told him this story.

With YouTube TV, even when my video is "live", it's 2 or 3 pitches behind. As impatient as I am, I look at MLB at-bat to see what's about to happen. Then I see it happen. It's usually during the last inning of a close game, like a save situation happening. I just can't take the suspense....sports is the original reality TV. 😆

[gehringer_2]

40 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

With YouTube TV, even when my video is "live", it's 2 or 3 pitches behind.

Don't feel bad, my direct TV is all over the place, it may buffer anywhere between 10sec and a full minute - and that's with a 1 gig incoming line.

[RandyMarsh]

I have YT TV as well and sometimes its ahead of sites like ESPN where I like to check other scores but majority of the time it's not so when watching games I have to restrain myself from going and checking out of town scores for my fantasy teams cause there's been a few times where I have been spoiled mainly with the Lions and NFL. Now I make sure to wait to in between innings or commercial breaks and not just down periods in the action.