5/30/25 8:10PM Tigers @ Royals

[IdahoBert]

In a game that was like two guys wrestling over a bottle of MD 20/20 in a trash filled alley, the Orioles defeated the White Sox 2-1. 

[IdahoBert]

Mariners just scored two runs to give them a 6–3 lead over the twins In the bottom of the eighth. 

[Hongbit]

47 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

Consider that the Tigers are playing at what seems like an out of their minds level and are on pace for 106 wins. Now try to imagine how Seattle -  after losing ARod and Junior in the two prior seasons - won 116 games.

How about Gene Kingsale playing on both the 2001 Mariners and 2003 Tigers.    

Talk about one extreme to the other. 

[Sports_Freak]

2 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

Mariners just scored two runs to give them a 6–3 lead over the twins In the bottom of the eighth. 

Yup...2 out single and then a HR. That park is packed..

edit; 39,000 fans in Seattle 

Edited May 31 by Sports_Freak

[holygoat]

Cal Raleigh is a one-man wrecking crew in Seattle tonight. A 3-run HR and a 2-run HR, and the Mariners lead 6-3 going into the 9th.

[holygoat]

Willie Castro AGAIN brings the Twinks to within one with a 2-out 2-run blast in the 9th. 6-5 Mariners.

[holygoat]

Andres Munoz picking a hell of night to have his worst outing of the year. Twinks tie the game at 6-6.

[Sports_Freak]

Seattle meltdown.

[holygoat]

Munoz's ERA before tonight was 0.00.

[lordstanley]

Twins lead 8-6 in the 10th.

[holygoat]

Correa 2-run dong. JFC, Seattle.

[lordstanley]

Mariners gave up 7 runs in the 10th inning to Washington last night and 6 runs in the 10th inning to Minnesota tonight. 

[chasfh]

7 hours ago, holygoat said:

Cal Raleigh is a one-man wrecking crew in Seattle tonight. A 3-run HR and a 2-run HR, and the Mariners lead 6-3 going into the 9th.

Cal Raleigh is a third of the way toward putting together what would literally be the greatest season at catcher in the history of the world.

[papalawrence]

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

Cal Raleigh is a third of the way toward putting together what would literally be the greatest season at catcher in the history of the world.

If only thorough stats had been kept for Josh Gibson 

Edited May 31 by papalawrence

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

Cal Raleigh is a third of the way toward putting together what would literally be the greatest season at catcher in the history of the world.

Raleigh is having his best season at age 28 - not too unusual in today's game where successful youngish catchers seem to have gotten rare. In recent years IRod was pretty good pretty young, but Bench, with 45 WAR and 2 MVPs before he was 27 is probably something we don't see again.

[RandyMarsh]

Tigers are now 22-17 against teams over .500, only the Yankees have a better record. Also only 3 teams in all the majors have played more games against such opponents than the Tigers. 

[chasfh]

3 hours ago, papalawrence said:

If only thorough stats had been kept for Josh Gibson 

I’m willing to believe that Josh Gibson is in the conversation of greatest catchers in history, but I don’t believe all of his stats came against competition that was major-league level to the degree the white leagues were.

[lordstanley]

2 hours ago, RandyMarsh said:

Tigers are now 22-17 against teams over .500, only the Yankees have a better record. Also only 3 teams in all the majors have played more games against such opponents than the Tigers. 

I remember earlier in the month Curtis Granderson, in an interview in which he was overall flattering towards the Tigers, said that in the coming weeks the Tigers “would finally be tested” - Texas, Boston, St. Louis, Toronto etc. I thought the Tigers had already had a normal enough schedule to date. But if we just look at the time since Granderson’s remarks, the Tigers have gone 13-7 versus Texas, Boston, Toronto, St. Louis, Cleveland, San Francisco, and KC.  The last 14 of those have all been against teams over .500 and the Tigers have gone 9-5. 

Edited May 31 by lordstanley

[holygoat]

58 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

I remember earlier in the month Curtis Granderson, in an interview in which he was overall flattering towards the Tigers, said that in the coming weeks the Tigers “would finally be tested” - Texas, Boston, St. Louis, Toronto etc. I thought the Tigers had already had a normal enough schedule to date. But if we just look at the time since Granderson’s remarks, the Tigers have gone 13-7 versus Texas, Boston, Toronto, St. Louis, Cleveland, San Francisco, and KC.  The last 14 of those have all been against teams over .500 and the Tigers have gone 9-5. 

Remove the Cleveland series and it's 12-4. 

I was talking to my nephew in Cincinnati who is only a casual baseball fan, and he said his buddy told him the only reason the Tigers record was so good is that they were feasting off of a piss-poor Central, ie they haven't beaten anyone good. I had to disabuse him of that notion with facts, and told him to tell his buddy that I said he was full of sh*t, lol.

[RandyMarsh]

8 minutes ago, holygoat said:

Remove the Cleveland series and it's 12-4. 

I was talking to my nephew in Cincinnati who is only a casual baseball fan, and he said his buddy told him the only reason the Tigers record was so good is that they were feasting off of a piss-poor Central, ie they haven't beaten anyone good. I had to disabuse him of that notion with facts, and told him to tell his buddy that I said he was full of sh*t, lol.

I'm not necessarily saying the Central is better than East but to add to your post your buddy isn't the only one that lazily says things like this, I heard the national media say things similar about all central teams and how their record wouldn't be what it was if it was in the East. But here's the thing the Tigers are 10-2 against the East, Twins 9-3, Guardians 6-6, Royals 8-7 and White Sox 3-5 so collectively they have more than held their own against them thus far.