9/17/25 6:40PM Guardians @ Tigers

[Tigeraholic1]

Comerica Park - Detroit, MI

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Game Time Forecast: 77 Sunny

LHP Gavin Williams

RHP Jack Flaherty

 

[Shades of Deivi Cruz]

Please, please, please let the good Jack Flaherty pitch today.

[chasfh]

Would someone please change the thread title to something other than "Guardians pound Tigers"? 😉

Edited September 17 by chasfh

[chasfh]

Will Vest's various splits are very weird and mostly not good. The salient stat here is sOPS+ at the end. (sOPS+ is his OPS+ in that particular split versus league average of 100.)

[kdog]

The Tigers are a max 90-92 win team. They were never 15 games better than Cleveland. I expect them to clinch this very deliberately. It will be annoying and stupid. Seattle is on a hot streak but I would like to hold them off for the bye. 

[Tiger337]

59 minutes ago, kdog said:

The Tigers are a max 90-92 win team. They were never 15 games better than Cleveland. I expect them to clinch this very deliberately. It will be annoying and stupid. Seattle is on a hot streak but I would like to hold them off for the bye. 

That's true, but if they don't win, they'll always be the team that blew a 15 game lead.  

[kdog]

 

[kdog]

15 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

That's true, but if they don't win, they'll always be the team that blew a 15 game lead.  

Agreed....but Cleveland also has to go on a 2007 Colorado Rockies run. 

[theroundsquare]

Show me a team that wins when it allows 4 runs or fewer, and I'll show you a team with a poor offense . . .

[oblong]

I got my playoff tickets yesterday.

The wild card round seemed to be an afterthought.

 

[Motor City Sonics]

 

[Motor City Sonics]

1 hour ago, kdog said:

Agreed....but Cleveland also has to go on a 2007 Colorado Rockies run. 

That's exactly what they are doing.  

[Archie]

1 hour ago, Tiger337 said:

That's true, but if they don't win, they'll always be the team that blew a 15 game lead.  

I think if the Tigers lose the division they stand a good chance of missing the playoffs entirely.  Currently Cleveland is 2.5 out of a WC spot.

[lordstanley]

The '64 Phillies collapse was famous and talked about when I was growing up.  They blew a 6 game lead with 12 to play. So blowing a 5.5 game lead with 11 to play would be remarkable enough, let alone a 15-game lead in the 2nd half of the season.

[lordstanley]

46 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

 

Counter that with this uplifting song:

 

 

[Motor City Sonics]

17 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

The '64 Phillies collapse was famous and talked about when I was growing up.  They blew a 6 game lead with 12 to play. So blowing a 5.5 game lead with 11 to play would be remarkable enough, let alone a 15-game lead in the 2nd half of the season.

The one I remember living through, that benefitted us, obviously, was the 1987 Blue Jays.   They pretty much had to lose all 7 of their last games for us to have a chance - and then they did.    Great slide, Bill Madlock ! 

 

I remember that last weekend vs. the Blue Jays.  Tigers had to sweep. 

Friday night Scott Lusader hit a HR and made an incredible diving catch

Saturday Jim Walewander scored the game winning run from 2nd on a base hit in extras

Sunday - Larry Herndon's solo HR was the only run of the game

 

The Tigers and Blue Jays played 7 times in the last two weekends.  Jays won the first 3 in Toronto, Tigers won the last game in TO and then swept them at home.   All were 1-run games.   That was incredible. 

 

It's Division-Or-Bust this time.     Tigers can't get swept here.   They just can't. 

Edited September 17 by Motor City Sonics

[kdog]

 

[Hongbit]

3 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said:

The one I remember living through, that benefitted us, obviously, was the 1987 Blue Jays.   They pretty much had to lose all 7 of their last games for us to have a chance - and then they did.    Great slide, Bill Madlock ! 

 

I remember that last weekend vs. the Blue Jays.  Tigers had to sweep. 

Friday night Scott Lusader hit a HR and made an incredible diving catch

Saturday Jim Walewander scored the game winning run from 2nd on a base hit in extras

Sunday - Larry Herndon's solo HR was the only run of the game

 

The Tigers and Blue Jays played 7 times in the last two weekends.  Jays won the first 3 in Toronto, Tigers won the last game in TO and then swept them at home.   All were 1-run games.   That was incredible. 

 

It's Division-Or-Bust this time.     Tigers can't get swept here.   They just can't. 

Great post and I remember this weekend well.  

While Larry hit the winning HR on Sunday, this was and will forever be known as the Frank Tanana game.   

[chasfh]

40 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

Great post and I remember this weekend well.  

While Larry hit the winning HR on Sunday, this was and will forever be known as the Frank Tanana game.   

I was at the Manny Lee game the day before.

[SoCalTiger]

5 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said:

The one I remember living through, that benefitted us, obviously, was the 1987 Blue Jays.   They pretty much had to lose all 7 of their last games for us to have a chance - and then they did.    Great slide, Bill Madlock ! 

 

I remember that last weekend vs. the Blue Jays.  Tigers had to sweep. 

Friday night Scott Lusader hit a HR and made an incredible diving catch

Saturday Jim Walewander scored the game winning run from 2nd on a base hit in extras

Sunday - Larry Herndon's solo HR was the only run of the game

 

The Tigers and Blue Jays played 7 times in the last two weekends.  Jays won the first 3 in Toronto, Tigers won the last game in TO and then swept them at home.   All were 1-run games.   That was incredible. 

 

It's Division-Or-Bust this time.     Tigers can't get swept here.   They just can't. 

Which is why the Doyle Alexander trade for Smoltz was a win win. 

[SoCalTiger]

Cmon Dan don’t do that. 

[SoCalTiger]

Now jump out big on the first !!!

[Tigermojo]

8 more shut out innings would be swell.

[Biff Mayhem]

Kwaaaaaaaan. 

[lordstanley]

Damn that Kwan.