Tigeraholic1 Posted August 20 Posted August 20 (edited) Comerica Park - Detroit, MI Listen: 97.1 The Ticket Watch: FanDuel Det Game Time Forecast: 72 Partly Sunny LHP Framber Valdez RHP Charlie Morton Edited August 20 by Tigeraholic1 1 Quote
IdahoBert Posted August 20 Posted August 20 The Astros are due to bounce back sometime, but let them do that somewhere else. Quote
romad1 Posted August 20 Posted August 20 59 minutes ago, IdahoBert said: The Astros are due to bounce back sometime, but let them do that somewhere else. I can only imagine how despondent their fans must be at the last 3 days of scorelessness. Quote
monkeytargets39 Posted August 20 Posted August 20 29 minutes ago, romad1 said: I can only imagine how despondent their fans must be at the last 3 days of scorelessness. I’d prefer to imagine that with the last 4 days of scorelessness 2 Quote
gehringer_2 Posted August 20 Posted August 20 The ideal solution for this despondency is for Morton to give up one in the 1st and the Tigers to win 6-1. Problems solved both ways. 1 Quote
lordstanley Posted August 20 Posted August 20 Win or lose today, the Tigers finally have carved out some breathing room in the race for the bye into the ALDS. They're now 5 games up on Houston and 6.5 games up on Seattle with the Tigers having 34 games to play (the Astros have 36 games left, the Mariners have 35 games left). If the Tigers win today, they will win the season series 4-2 over Houston and hence win the tiebreaker. If the Tigers lose Wednesday, the season series will end up tied 3-3 so the next tiebreaker is the teams' record within their own division. The Tigers' AL Central record is 24-13 with 15 divisional games left to play. The Astros' AL West record is 16-17 with 19 divisional games left to play. That's a 6-game "lead" for the Tigers at the moment. Seattle has the tiebreaker over the Tigers because they won the season series 4-2. 1 Quote
IdahoBert Posted August 20 Posted August 20 Full throttle. Pedal to the metal. No prisoners. We love the smell of napalm on a nice afternoon. Houston, you have a problem. Hasta la vista baby. 2 Quote
lordstanley Posted August 20 Posted August 20 43 minutes ago, IdahoBert said: Full throttle. Pedal to the metal. No prisoners. We love the smell of napalm on a nice afternoon. Houston, you have a problem. Hasta la vista baby. Kiss my ass, ‘stros! Quote
romad1 Posted August 20 Posted August 20 winning this game would exceed all expectations for a getaway day when we've already stolen their lunch money last night. Quote
Sports_Freak Posted August 20 Posted August 20 Houston hasn't even scored a single run in this 3 game series yet. I don't care how good a team pitches, zero runs equals a loss... Quote
IdahoBert Posted August 20 Posted August 20 Charlie Morton’s brief talk with Daniella was revealing about the way AJ can manage players although I doubt he has a one-size-fits-all “plan.” Morton actually got pretty serious as he talked about joining the Astros when AJ was Manager, and how he actually treated him like a person instead of as an object or a function. I’m interpreting here, but I’m pretty sure this is what he meant. That’s something he wasn’t used to, except maybe when he was in the minors. My guess is AJ has an idea of the players he can get reach on a personal level to motivate, and those who its best to have some distance from because that is their particular comfort level. Players are not entirely expressions of statistical functions, which is something measurable, and apparently the part that isn’t reducible to that is manageable and can be motivated at least in AJ‘s eyes. 1 Quote
lordstanley Posted August 20 Posted August 20 Watching Charlie Morton in a Tigers uniform reminds me of Kevin Costner in For The Love of the Game. 1 Quote
IdahoBert Posted August 20 Posted August 20 Andy Ibáñez singles on a ground ball to center fielder Taylor Trammell. Jahmai Jones scores. Gleyber Torres to 2nd. Quote
Sports_Freak Posted August 20 Posted August 20 Torres has one the best eyes i can remember as a Tiger. Ibanez...RBI!! Quote
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