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

[IdahoBert]

1 minute ago, chasfh said:

Not exactly: Two hours, one minute.

Just noticed that, a couple long at bats did us in 

[Sports_Freak]

Let's play 2!!

[Shinzaki]

[monkeytargets39]

If you take out all of Adonis Garcias unnecessary timeouts, it was under two hours

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

1 minute ago, monkeytargets39 said:

If you take out all of Adonis Garcias unnecessary timeouts, it was under two hours

Semian had a couple many-pitch ABs, too. might have ended Skubal's night an inning early.

[gehringer_2]

4 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Sweet. The first game back home after a long trip is a dicey thing. Especially with no off day...

definitely - sort of expected a let down. But Skubal was sharp and even though they only scored 2 they hit the ball a lot better than the score - nothing was going to leave the yard tonight though. Somebody must have slipped in a case of soft baseballs.

[chasfh]

1 hour ago, monkeytargets39 said:

Yes- analytics have shifted more towards putting your best hitters in the top 3 spots so they’re likely to get more ABs overall

Remember when the thing to do was to put your banjo-hitting no-walk-taking middle infielder in the #2 slot in the order so he could sacrifice the leadoff guy over to second during the first inning? That seems like a hundred years ago (and it was!) Nowadays Aaron Judge and Kyle Tucker hit second in the order.

[lordstanley]

Is the 3.0 game division lead the Tigers now have over the Guardians and the Royals the largest the Tigers have had this season?   Update: I’ve checked Baseball Reference. It is. They had got it up to 2.5 games a few times 

Edited Saturday at 12:56 AM by lordstanley

[IdahoBert]

God Tigers Live is awful. Five minute commercial breaks?

[chasfh]

24 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

The cute girls with the signs telling the fans to stand up don’t seem to be getting the job done

Yeah homey don’t play that in Detroit

[gehringer_2]

So if Veirling is rehabbing with the Hens and the Hens are in the middle of a ball game what was he doing in the Tiger dugout?

[RandyMarsh]

5 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Remember when the thing to do was to put your banjo-hitting no-walk-taking middle infielder in the #2 slot in the order so he could sacrifice the leadoff guy over to second during the first inning? That seems like a hundred years ago (and it was!) Nowadays Aaron Judge and Kyle Tucker hit second in the order.

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. 

[IdahoBert]

It was like pulling teeth without anesthetic to get MLB to see the value in getting the most at bats possible for your best hitters. 

[Tigermojo]

2 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

So if Veirling is rehabbing with the Hens and the Hens are in the middle of a ball game what was he doing in the Tiger dugout?

Meadows was in the clubhouse before the game. Maybe they were seeing the doctor?

[chasfh]

2 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

God Tigers Live is awful. Five minute commercial breaks?

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.

[chasfh]

3 minutes 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. 

And the pitcher. Don’t forget the pitcher. (At least for the first 72 seasons of the league).

[IdahoBert]

1 minute 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.

I don’t remember being this bad last year I think with this new TV deal they just have less money to play with and they do it on the cheap.

[Sports_Freak]

6 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

God Tigers Live is awful. Five minute commercial breaks?

And then Johnny Kane and stuttering Todd Jones.

[chasfh]

2 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

It was like pulling teeth without anesthetic to get MLB to see the value in getting the most at bats possible for your best hitters. 

It took only 20 or so seasons of analytics infiltrating the game to get teams untracked off the tried and true-ish.

[monkeytargets39]

11 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Remember when the thing to do was to put your banjo-hitting no-walk-taking middle infielder in the #2 slot in the order so he could sacrifice the leadoff guy over to second during the first inning? That seems like a hundred years ago (and it was!) Nowadays Aaron Judge and Kyle Tucker hit second in the order.

I remember the days where the leadoff guy was someone who would hit .280-.320 with absolutely zero power and never walked but could steal 50 bases and for some reason was a terrible center fielder defensively.  Looking at you Alex Sanchez and Roger Cedeno….

[gehringer_2]

5 minutes ago, Tigermojo said:

Meadows was in the clubhouse before the game. Maybe they were seeing the doctor?

Could be. He hasn't played in the field yet, maybe he needs another clearance for that step. If it does he's probably still another week away though....

Edited Saturday at 01:07 AM by gehringer_2

[chasfh]

Just now, IdahoBert said:

I don’t remember being this bad last year I think with this new TV deal they just have less money to play with and they do it on the cheap.

It’s almost as though they are basically Tracy Ullman in a bathrobe coming out to the TV audience shouting “GO HOME! GO HOME!”

[Sports_Freak]

1 minute ago, chasfh said:

It took only 20 or so seasons of analytics infiltrating the game to get teams untracked off the tried and true-ish.

Look at the stats of our middle infielders from 1968. A world championship team. The game has changed so much in my lifetime....mostly in pitching though. It was unheard of to pull a pitcher after a number of pitches...

[chasfh]

This is not at all a comment on Tarik Skubal or anyone else’s private views at all, but—I really hate this haircut which is inexplicably popular right now.

 

[chasfh]

2 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Look at the stats of our middle infielders from 1968. A world championship team. The game has changed so much in my lifetime....mostly in pitching though. It was unheard of to pull a pitcher after a number of pitches...

TBF, 1968 was really a pitcher’s year like no other.