8/20/25 1:10PM Astros @ Tigers

[Tigeraholic1]

Comerica Park - Detroit, MI

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Game Time Forecast: 72 Partly Sunny

LHP Framber Valdez

RHP Charlie Morton

 

 

Edited Wednesday at 12:04 PM by Tigeraholic1

[casimir]

Give 'em the chair!

[IdahoBert]

The Astros are due to bounce back sometime, but let them do that somewhere else. 

[CaliforniaDreaming]

Might as well sweep the series

[romad1]

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.  

[monkeytargets39]

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

[gehringer_2]

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.

[lordstanley]

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.

 

[IdahoBert]

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. 

[IdahoBert]

[lordstanley]

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!

[romad1]

winning this game would exceed all expectations for a getaway day when we've already stolen their lunch money last night.  

[Sports_Freak]

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...

[IdahoBert]

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. 

[IdahoBert]

Lead off walk. Need a DP.

[IdahoBert]

Ibanez at least got the man at Second. 

[lordstanley]

Watching Charlie Morton in a Tigers uniform reminds me of Kevin Costner in For The Love of the Game. 

[romad1]

in play (runs)

 

[IdahoBert]

Andy Ibáñez singles on a ground ball to center fielder Taylor Trammell. Jahmai Jones scores. Gleyber Torres to 2nd.

[Sports_Freak]

Torres has one the best eyes i can remember as a Tiger. Ibanez...RBI!!

[romad1]

in play (runs) again

[IdahoBert]

Torque ground rule double RBI

[romad1]

in play (runs) again again. 

[IdahoBert]

Ha. Wild pitch or pass ball 3–0.

[IdahoBert]

Might as well get six this inning.