8/19/25 6:40PM Astros @ Tigers

[Sports_Freak]

4 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

Guess he’s used to tossing in the 100s and didn’t want to overdo it

Jason described it as a hot potato.

Edited 15 hours ago by Sports_Freak

[gehringer_2]

No decision for either starter.

[Adullin]

now go and apologize to Skubal 

[IdahoBert]

34 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Or who likes basketball.

I do have friends who are both very intelligent who like basketball much more than baseball and they both even played baseball.

One of them loved baseball and he grew up in Iowa, but his father was a Nazarene minister and the games mostly happened on Sunday so he wasn’t allowed to play and his love for baseball died.

[chasfh]

Skubal now at 200 strikeouts on the button for the season. With six starts remaining, he’s got a decent chance at 250.

[tiger2022]

Just now, chasfh said:

Skubal now at 200 strikeouts on the button for the season. With six starts remaining, he’s got a decent chance at 250.

I am guessing he won't make 6 more regular season starts and they will start to limit his innings more down the stretch, especially if they have the division wrapped up.

[monkeytargets39]

Will Brunson.  There’s a forgotten name

[gehringer_2]

8 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

Guess he’s used to tossing in the 100s and didn’t want to overdo it

I think it was a better play than it looked. Where he was standing he was sort of half on/off the mound and throwing half off the mound where you don't know where your front foot is going to land is where a lot of pitchers screw up, so I'm guessing he just decided to soft toss it carefully.

Edited 15 hours ago by gehringer_2

[chasfh]

Just now, tiger2022 said:

I am guessing he won't make 6 more regular season starts and they will start to limit his innings more down the stretch, especially if they have the division wrapped up.

This is game 128, meaning 34 games remaining. They would have to skip a bunch of start days for him not to get six. Plus, this is his 25th start, and he had 31 last year as well. Skubal is not a guy we have to baby.

[papalawrence]

Carp has definitely improved his OF play.

[gehringer_2]

Carpenter flashing the leather again tonight.

[Adullin]

Nice catch

[lordstanley]

Seattle has lost and is now 6 games back of the Tigers, with Houston 4 games back of the Tigers pending the outcome of this game. Man, the bye into the ALDS is sitting there for the Tigers to grab. Find a way to win tonight and then again tomorrow and it would be all but theirs with 33 games to go.

[chasfh]

1 minute ago, gehringer_2 said:

I think it was a better play than it looked. Where he was standing he was sort of half on/off the mound and throwing half off the mound where you don't know where your front foot is going to land is where a lot of pitchers screw up, so I'm guessing he just decided to soft toss it carefully.

I remember when Julian Tavarez pitched for the Cubs, right around 2000 or so. Game against the Cardinals. Batter hit a wicked fast one-hop shot that Tavarez olé-ed into his glove. The batter wasn’t even out of the box when the ball got to Tavarez, who just turned and rolled a grounder to first for the out.

A lot of fans and the media catapulted a ton of **** his way over it. Me, I thought it was a smart move. The batter was out by a mile anyway, and by rolling a grounder to first, Tavarez removed the possibility that he would heave the ball past first Chuck Knoblauch-style and allow the batter to reach. Also, rolling it underhand is less wear and tear n the arm than throwing it overhand, and every little bit counts. I remember I just could not get anyone to see it that way.

Maybe that’s what Skubal was trying to accomplish here.

[Tigermojo]

SCORE RUNS DUMMIES 

[gehringer_2]

bad Javy AB

[ben9753]

Baez looks as lost as ever. Just flailing. 

[gehringer_2]

I think I would let Colt hit, but we'll see.

[gehringer_2]

If that bat doesn't break, that probably clears the IF. Game of wood grains.

[Adullin]

You're noy playing golf 

[monkeytargets39]

I really don’t need every commercial break on the FanDuel app to start with a cockroach belching in my face

[gehringer_2]

Hinch's strategy may be correct but snake eyes so far tonight. Used his RHH and got nothing out of them

[lordstanley]

9 scoreless innings. Go win it now!

[IdahoBert]

Jose Altuve grounds into a double play, shortstop Javier Báez to second baseman Gleyber Torres to first baseman Spencer Torkelson. Carlos Correa out at 2nd. Jose Altuve out at 1st.

[Dan Gilmore]

Nice DP