8/14/25 7:40PM Tigers @ Twins

[holygoat]

Did not have Montero getting the W on my bingo card.

[chasfh]

Rafael Montero!

[Sports_Freak]

Wow. I thought for sure we were gonna lose. Another well pitched game.

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

Just now, lordstanley said:

Tigers win! My apologies to Rafael Montero.

I was just thinking that he did pretty well in two high-enough leverage situations tonight. maybe he'll be ok after all...?

[Dan Gilmore]

16 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

17 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

Rafael Montero

That would be Rafael White Flag Montero.

[GalagaGuy]

Holy crap, we won!  🥳

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

Just now, Dan Gilmore said:

That would be Rafael White Flag Montero.

Rafael *Win Flag Montero

[papalawrence]

Had to watch with MN feed. They felt the tipped pitch hit the ground. Imho from replay it would not have been overturned.

Good to win games like this

Maybe Montero can be a pleasant surprise

[holygoat]

3 minutes ago, Biff Mayhem said:

YES!!!!!!

Biff Mayhem sighting!

[Biff Mayhem]

1 minute ago, Sports_Freak said:

Wow. I thought for sure we were gonna lose. Another well pitched game.

When they were down 3-0, I almost bowed out. Glad I stuck around. 

[Sports_Freak]

6 minutes ago, Biff Mayhem said:

Well the delay missed that f 💣. Nice work Rocco. 
 

Benetti with a MTM reference FTW. 

Yeah, the hat throw from her show. I guess Rocco is known for throwing his hat....

[lordstanley]

4 of the Tigers' past 5 wins have been by 1 run. 6-5 over LA Angels last Friday, 2-1 over the White Sox, 1-0 over the White Sox and 4-3 over the Twins.

[IdahoBert]

This doesn’t feel like a game we deserved win, but to paraphrase Otto von Bismarck “God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the Detroit Tigers.”

 

[Tiger337]

Fake baseball sucks...but a paper win is better than a paper loss.  

[gehringer_2]

[Sports_Freak]

1 hour ago, monkeytargets39 said:

Does Riley have a facial tic with raising his eyebrows repeatedly?

OMG...he was on post-game. It's a really bad nervous tic. He needs to shave his eyebrows...lol

[IdahoBert]

[lordstanley]

13 minutes ago, papalawrence said:

Had to watch with MN feed. They felt the tipped pitch hit the ground. Imho from replay it would not have been overturned.

 

Dan D and Bobby Sales didn't even think the pitch was tipped, even though the ump called it that way.

[Adullin]

Just the way we drew it up

[romad1]

Tork and Dingler and McStinkey won that 11th.  

[TigerNation]

1 hour ago, monkeytargets39 said:

Does Riley have a facial tic with raising his eyebrows repeatedly?

He does it every AB, and most anytime they show him on camera for more than five seconds. Wide eye, raised eyebrows. This is one of those things where you're not gonna believe you didn't it notice it before with how often he does it.

Edited 12 hours ago by TigerNation

[IdahoBert]

Riley‘s tightly wound, he’s a bundle of nerves, that’s part of his energy field. It’s not a big deal. 

[Tiger337]

I had a tick like that when I was a kid.  It must have been right around the time McLain was suspended because I  remember my father joking to a doctor that it came from that.  I actually didn't know what was going on with McLain at the time.   Anyway, the doctor asked if I was a lefty or a southpaw.  I started to correct him, but my father stopped me since the doctor was either messing with me or was being stupid.  I suspect the former.  Wow, it's weird how that all just came back to me.  The tick didn't last long.  

[IdahoBert]

8 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

Wow. I thought for sure we were gonna lose. Another well pitched game.

8 hours ago, Crazy Cat Gentleman said:

I was just thinking that he did pretty well in two high-enough leverage situations tonight. maybe he'll be ok after all...?

 

Yeah, the whole situation was really cringe. I was truly expecting the worst to happen and it didn’t.  It would really be something if this team started firing on all cylinders again. If a team is gonna stumble, this is the time to stumble when you had a 14 game lead. Now is the time to right the ship.

[papalawrence]

Anyone remember Jim Eisenreich? Dude could hit, but he struggled with Tourette's Syndrome and had pronounced facial and body tics. Riley has a slight tic.