6/13/25 7:10PM Reds @ Tigers

[chasfh]

Just now, Sports_Freak said:

About 8 years ago, I was walking my dog and she saw a squirrel. She took off after it and I <tried> to run. I face planted.

You still could’ve beaten Carpenter around third to the plate.

[Sports_Freak]

1 hour ago, GalagaGuy said:

Carp runs weird.  It's like he's running at half stride or something. 

He has a bad hamstring. Should never have been sent. 

[IdahoBert]

4HRs 2nite

[Sports_Freak]

[monkeytargets39]

4 minutes ago, chasfh said:

How telling is it that Matt Gage was called up and Matt Manning was not?

We needed another lefty though

[chasfh]

Just now, monkeytargets39 said:

We needed another lefty though

Matt Manning has got to be done here.

[gehringer_2]

1 minute ago, Sports_Freak said:

He has a bad hamstring. Should never have been sent. 

yeah - that was pretty much the one mistake they made as a team tonight. 

Montero is interesting. He doesn't seem to have particularly great stuff but he sure hangs in there.

[Sports_Freak]

5 minutes ago, chasfh said:

How telling is it that Matt Gage was called up and Matt Manning was not?

They didn’t call up that other guy who was up here earlier, either. They're trying to catch lightning in a bottle. Get that bullpen back to what it was last year.

[Nate7474]

Just now, gehringer_2 said:

yeah - that was pretty much the one mistake they made as a team tonight. 

Montero is interesting. He doesn't seem to have particularly great stuff but he sure hangs in there.

He a good end of the starting rotation pitcher.  Has good stuff but seems to struggle the 3rd time thru a lineup.  The opener strategy is really good for him it seems.

[lordstanley]

Yankees and Mets both have lost so the Tigers have the best record in the AL by 2.5 games and the best record in MLB by 0.5 game. 

[Sports_Freak]

3 minutes ago, monkeytargets39 said:

We needed another lefty though

Yeah, they were saying the Reds and teams we're playing after them all have a lot of LH hitters.

[gehringer_2]

6 minutes ago, chasfh said:

How telling is it that Matt Gage was called up and Matt Manning was not?

Manning is getting regular relief work now and he's seems to be doing  better than he was as a starter, but he hasn't proven enough/been good enough,  to get a call-up. They have nothing to lose leaving him where he is for a while.

[GalagaGuy]

I'm convinced Joey Cora had a brain cramp and forgot about Carp's hamstring issue.   Would love to see a reporter get a chance to ask him why he waved Carp around there.  

[chasfh]

6 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

Manning is getting regular relief work now and he's seems to be doing  better than he was as a starter, but he hasn't proven enough/been good enough,  to get a call-up. They have nothing to lose leaving him where he is for a while.

No doubt. Not everyone on a minor league roster can be an actual prospect. You need to fill out the rest of the roster so you can field a team.

[gehringer_2]

4 minutes ago, chasfh said:

No doubt. Not everyone on a minor league roster can be an actual prospect. You need to fill out the rest of the roster so you can field a team.

 

Manning should study the bio of another tall thin Tiger high draft pick. Andrew Miller was the No 6 pick in 2006, it was 9 years later he finally emerged as a top reliever for the Yankees. 

 

[monkeytargets39]

44 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Yeah, they were saying the Reds and teams we're playing after them all have a lot of LH hitters.

That and we keep using Holton and Hurter in these opener/chaos games

[chasfh]

Cade Smith just took a liner at 106.6 mph off the bat of Rowdy Tellez right to the forehead. He came within two inches of being another Cleveland pitcher getting Herb Scored.

The Guardians are keeping him in the game. I’m not so sure that’s such a good idea.

Edited yesterday at 03:51 AM by chasfh

[gehringer_2]

National media can't get it right even when they do cover the Tigers. From the ESPN game summary tonight:

Quote

Key Stat:

Rogers has 201 career RBI. making him the first Tigers hitter to reach 200 before his 25th birthday since Travis Fryman in 1993. --https://www.espn.com/mlb/recap/_/gameId/401695937

I'm sure Jake would love to have 5 more years of career before him than he does.

Edited yesterday at 04:00 AM by gehringer_2

[TigerNation]

2 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

National media can't get it right even when they do cover the Tigers. From the ESPN game summary tonight:

I'm sure Jake would love to have 5 more years of career before him than he does.

They meant Riley Greene.

[gehringer_2]

12 minutes ago, TigerNation said:

They meant Riley Greene.

indeed they did. But they went 0 for 6 getting the letters of his name right.

Edited yesterday at 04:15 AM by gehringer_2

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

12 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

indeed they did. But they went 0 for 6 getting the letters of his name right.

1/6

Rogers
Greene

[gehringer_2]

16 minutes ago, Crazy Cat Gentleman said:

1/6

Rogers
Greene

LOL - I"m geting dyslexic in old age. I looked at that and didn't see any that lined up. What was funny is the article never mentions Jake at all before the mis-reference. Taylor Rogers's name appears, but that's as close as it comes. The writer (not credited) had to have done an edit in the sentence about the pitcher and left "Rogers" on his clipboard, then pulled it back in place of Greene's name lower down without noticing, but still bush league to miss that proofread. Or may the first idea was the pitcher Rogers' name was originally going to figure in the Key Stat choice.

I though they might have fixed it by now, but nope.... 

[gehringer_2]

So Vierling was back in uniform tonight with the Hens. 0/2 as DH. Olson is supposed to pitch tomorrow (today!)

[monkeytargets39]

2 hours ago, chasfh said:

Cade Smith just took a liner at 106.6 mph off the bat of Rowdy Tellez right to the forehead. He came within two inches of being another Cleveland pitcher getting Herb Scored.

The Guardians are keeping him in the game. I’m not so sure that’s such a good idea.

Wow that was wild.  The bill of his cap almost entirely ate all of the force of the line drive.  Never seen anything like that before.

 

but you’re right….and inch or so lower and that’s a really bad outcome

[gehringer_2]

RE:200 RBI. It would be had to pick two guys that got to the same milestone by more different routes. You can ignore Travis' rookie 1/3 season and he still totalled  284 in his first three full time seasons - partly because he was an iron man - he got into 461 games in those three seasons, and partly because the Tigers were scoring runs as team at a level today's team can only dream of : 800-900 per season. Riley has been a walking med-evac case - halfway though his 4th season and is still short of 400 games played; Riley's teams have been scoring in the 550-650 runs/season range.

Another way to break it down is that Travis got his 200th RBI at about career AB 1360. Riley got there at about career AB 1530. If you consider the difference in team scoring levels Riley looks better than Travis on that basis.

Edited yesterday at 02:02 PM by gehringer_2