9/25/25 6:40pm Tigers @ Guardians

[Biff Mayhem]

Progressive Field, Cleveland, OH

Listen: 97.1 The Ticket

Watch: FanDuel Sports Network Detroit

Game Time Forecast: 70

Does it even matter? TBA

LHP Parker Messick

[ICroupier]

[Hongbit]

Cleveland is starting a pitcher with 6 career starts today.   Boston is planning on a rookie with 3 total on Saturday.    

These batters couldn’t ask for a better opportunity to right the ship.  

[Motor City Sonics]

Just now, Hongbit said:

Cleveland is starting a pitcher with 6 career starts today.   Boston is planning on a rookie with 3 total on Saturday.    

These batters couldn’t ask for a better opportunity to right the ship.  

Well, first you have to actually want to play.     This team hasn't looked like that the last couple of nights.   They look like a baseball diamond is the last place they want to be.   They've checked out.       

[Shades of Deivi Cruz]

It seems like I have to throw my Gritty tshirt in the garbage, right?  I certainly can't wear it again without being rightfully mocked.

[tiger2022]

1 hour ago, Hongbit said:

Cleveland is starting a pitcher with 6 career starts today.   Boston is planning on a rookie with 3 total on Saturday.    

These batters couldn’t ask for a better opportunity to right the ship.  

Only if they were facing Morton and Paddack over the next two days.

[CMRivdogs]

1 hour ago, Hongbit said:

Cleveland is starting a pitcher with 6 career starts today.   Boston is planning on a rookie with 3 total on Saturday.    

These batters couldn’t ask for a better opportunity to right the ship.  

Those one the type that historically have dominated the past few years

[GalagaGuy]

Boston clinches a playoff spot if they win today and Houston loses.  That could be huge for the Tigers if the Red Sox have nothing to play for in that final series.  

[lordstanley]

1 minute ago, GalagaGuy said:

Boston clinches a playoff spot if they win today and Houston loses.  That could be huge for the Tigers if the Red Sox have nothing to play for in that final series.  

Pretty sure Boston clinches if either one of those happens, I checked the tiebreakers last night. Worth double checking though. Technically Boston would still be in their division race but almost impossible for them to catch both NY and Toronto so would probably just rest up instead. 

[tiger2022]

I think the fact that a guy who has 42 IP in his career is who this team turns to in the most important game of the year says all you need to know about the way this organization has been run.  

[SeattleMike]

4 hours ago, GalagaGuy said:

Boston clinches a playoff spot if they win today and Houston loses.  That could be huge for the Tigers if the Red Sox have nothing to play for in that final series.  

What did the Braves have to play for? But I agree with your general point. If Boston just uses the series to lineup its pitching for the postseason maybe the Tigers can break through with a win or two, which may be all they need. 

[SeattleMike]

3 hours ago, tiger2022 said:

I think the fact that a guy who has 42 IP in his career is who this team turns to in the most important game of the year says all you need to know about the way this organization has been run.  

Cleveland's starter tonite has pitched even fewer innings in his career. I still think the Tigers screwed up by moving Melton to the pen. I have to believe if they had given Morton's starts to Melton they'd have a win or two more. 

[tiger2022]

8 minutes ago, SeattleMike said:

Cleveland's starter tonite has pitched even fewer innings in his career. I still think the Tigers screwed up by moving Melton to the pen. I have to believe if they had given Morton's starts to Melton they'd have a win or two more. 

Messick has 34.2 IP and he has a 1.3 WAR.  Pretty good so far.  

Paddack and Morton got the starts instead because they wanted to go with the really ineffective vets.

[IdahoBert]

So Cleveland doesn’t do visiting teams the courtesy of an afternoon game on a travel day, unlike the Tigers, who seem to extend this courtesy to everyone.

I would just like to get the suffering over early so I can find something else to worry about this evening.

[tiger2022]

7 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

So Cleveland doesn’t do visiting teams the courtesy of an afternoon game on a travel day, unlike the Tigers, who seem to extend this courtesy to everyone.

I would just like to get the suffering over early so I can find something else to worry about this evening.

As Gordon Lightfoot would say, Sundown, you better take care if I find you creeping round my back stairs.

[lordstanley]

2 minutes ago, tiger2022 said:

As Gordon Lightfoot would say, Sundown, you better take care if I find you creeping round my back stairs.

As Gordon Lightfoot also said: "At seven p.m., a main hatchway caved in, he said. "Fellas, it's been good to know ya".    The Wreck of the 2025 Tigers.

[IdahoBert]

I might not follow this game tonight.

I might do something more hopeful instead like watching L. Ron Hubbard‘s Battlefield Earth that has a 3% Rotten Tomatoes rating.

I understand John Travolta weighs 300 pounds, that burned-out cities have electricity, and hangars full of jets, buried under 1,000 years of dust, not only fire up instantly but still have full tanks of gas.

I need some optimism in my life.

[tiger2022]

5 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

I might not follow this game tonight.

I might do something more hopeful instead like watching L. Ron Hubbard‘s Battlefield Earth that has a 3% Rotten Tomatoes rating.

I understand John Travolta weighs 300 pounds, that burned-out cities have electricity, and hangars full of jets, buried under 1,000 years of dust, not only fire up instantly but still have full tanks of gas.

I need some optimism in my life.

Start reading 1984, that has a happy ending.

[IdahoBert]

6 minutes ago, tiger2022 said:

Start reading 1984, that has a happy ending.

A boot stomping on a human face forever.

Roger Ebert had not yet passed away when he reviewed Battlefield Earth, and this is what he had to say about it:

”Battlefield Earth is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It's not merely bad; it's unpleasant in a hostile way.”

This recent stretch of the Tigers is a very bad bus trip. 

[chasfh]

I’ll keep half an eye on the game rather than two whole eyes on it.

[chasfh]

Within the realm of possibility still: Tigers win three of last four, Cleveland loses three of last four, Tigers win division.

Just sayin’.

Anything can baseball, man.

[Sports_Freak]

41 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

A boot stomping on a human face forever.

Roger Ebert had not yet passed away when he reviewed Battlefield Earth, and this is what he had to say about it:

”Battlefield Earth is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It's not merely bad; it's unpleasant in a hostile way.”

This recent stretch of the Tigers is a very bad bus trip. 

Last season when the Tigers were winning at an amazing pace, Jason Benetti said something like "This Tiger bullpen is like riding with someone in a car at 60 MPH who's tailgating."             I found that quite funny.

[Sports_Freak]

5 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Within the realm of possibility still: Tigers win three of last four, Cleveland loses three of last four, Tigers win division.

Just sayin’.

Anything can baseball, man.

If we still had 50 games or so, we might be able to come back. But this is like a bullpen coming into an 8th inning tied game and giving up 10 runs. You <could> still win....but you're not gonna. It's over....

[lordstanley]

It’s the MLB.com Free Game of the Day. Makes sense, because people are always drawn to natural disasters and accidents and train wrecks. 

[casimir]

So the free curly fries from Arby’s, is that 3 runs in game or 3 runs in a series?