7/26/25 6:10PM Blue Jays @ Tigers

[Sports_Freak]

Use your closer in the 8th inning? Hmmm...

[IdahoBert]

If Riley doesn’t hit into a double play, maybe Tork can hit another meaningless home run. 

[lordstanley]

 

[Tigermojo]

I knew Rogers and Skubal were going to be great tonight...just didn't expect the giant steaming pile of dung from everyone else.

[Sports_Freak]

21-35 will ensure a .500 record. I'm not sure if we can make even that. 

[Sports_Freak]

2 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

If Riley doesn’t hit into a double play, maybe Tork can hit another meaningless home run. 

Riley hit the ball? Swinging from his ankles?

[GalagaGuy]

4 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Use your closer in the 8th inning? Hmmm...

Even if you want to call Vest the closer, the Jays had the top of their lineup coming up in the 8th in a 0-0 game so what is Hinch supposed to do there if not go to his best guy?   

[Archie]

At least this Tiger team and season will be talked about for a long time but for all the wrong reasons.  Is there a betting line for when they lose the division lead?  Has Harris figured out yet you can't build a WS contender by other teams DFAs yet?

[Sports_Freak]

If Cleveland wins, they'll be .500. We should start a thread for guesses on what day they'll catch us. 😆😆

[wolverinefan]

I can appreciate Andy Dirks attempts to be optimistic. However it is clearly not genuine...

[IdahoBert]

Maybe Smokes was right when he said that winning creates good chemistry in a team, implying that the reverse is not true. 

[wolverinefan]

Game over

[kdog]

This is non competitive slop. I’m done saying they are better than this. There’s something fundamentally wrong when everyone loses their ability to produce at the same time.

[lordstanley]

Here’s  the run differential in the past 13 games, which adds up to minus 56  

L4

L9

L8

L4

L2

L3

W1

L3

L3

L5

L7

L4

L5

You could have gifted the Tigers 3 free runs each game and they’d still only have gone 2-8 with 3 ties. 

[1776]

OK, I’m legitimately concerned now. 
 

[Sports_Freak]

1 minute ago, GalagaGuy said:

Even if you want to call Vest the closer, the Jays had the top of their lineup coming up in the 8th in a 0-0 game so what is Hinch supposed to do there if not go to his best guy?   

Yeah, it worked out well. Use someone else and if they give up runs, you have 2 innings to catch up. But yeah, it doesn't matter, the Tigers were just rolling over at bat anyway. 

[Tigermojo]

Carp hitting.077 for Toledo.

[Archie]

Just now, Tigermojo said:

Carp hitting.077 for Toledo.

I would still bring him up and Lange too.  They can't do any worse than Tigers are now.  Greene was 0-4 with 3 K tonight. Getting on AS team could have been a curse.

[IdahoBert]

This is a freakish collapse. I could see stumbling. Stumbling is bound to happen. But this exceeds stumbling. I hope they somehow pull out of it and this becomes a bad memory.

[papalawrence]

9 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

If Cleveland wins, they'll be .500. We should start a thread for guesses on what day they'll catch us. 😆😆

And they're only 6 back in the loss column

[papalawrence]

Better D today. There's that

[papalawrence]

Last year it was. 02%. Just 2 weeks ago espn had Detroit's playoff odds at 99%. Tsunami to complete drought 

[tiger2022]

39 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

I think Nick Kurtz produced more offense last night than the entire Tigers team has in the 9 games since the All Star break. 

True, but I was told in another thread that he would flame out and is just a flash in the pan like Chris Shelton and Brennan Boesch.

[papalawrence]

Other than a 13 at-bat stop at AA last season, Kurtz' ops has never been below 1.000. That includes this season. Dude is a stud

Nick Kurtz College, Fall & Minor Leagues Statistics | Baseball-Reference.com https://share.google/BODDMh8TLFDNonwYF

[Klondike]

18 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

Maybe Smokes was right when he said that winning creates good chemistry in a team, implying that the reverse is not true. 

Good players do even better.