9/26/25 7:10 pm Tigers @ Red Sox

[Biff Mayhem]

Fenway Park, Boston MA

Listen: 97.1 The Ticket

Watch: Apple +

Game Time Forecast: 77

RHP Casey Mize 

LHP Kyle Harrison

 

We need more power!

 

 

[Tigermojo]

Mize as well win again.

[Sports_Freak]

Remember Boston's trip to Comerica this season? Didn't we have a couple walkoff wins? I think one of the games was 2 Javy 3 run homers.

[Sports_Freak]

I looked it up, the Tigers swept Boston in May, 12th thru the 14th. 2 were walkoffs, Javy's second 3 run homer was in the 11th inning when we were 2 runs down. And in the first game, we clobbered them, 14-2. The 3rd game was a Malloy walkoff single. I bet the Sox are gonna want payback. 😅

[lordstanley]

Does that bullpen cop from 2012 still work Fenway? I’d like to see Carpenter plunk one right off his head. 

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

@Biff Mayhem, still need one more correction to the title. 🙂 

not that I'd mind a trip back to how they were playing in June.

[Tigermojo]

5 minutes ago, Crazy Cat Gentleman said:

@Biff Mayhem, still need one more correction to the title. 🙂 

not that I'd mind a trip back to how they were playing in June.

2026 it's back to the future.

[MotownWebGuy]

16 minutes ago, Crazy Cat Gentleman said:

@Biff Mayhem, still need one more correction to the title. 🙂 

not that I'd mind a trip back to how they were playing in June.

I gotcha.  All fixed. 

[1776]

Kyle Harrison is the primary piece that came back to Boston in the Rafael Devers trade with San Francisco. He was the Giants #1 prospect less than two years ago.
The Red Sox put him at their AAA club after the trade but he’s been up very recently after being cleared after some shoulder issues that weren’t serious. 

 

Edited September 26 by 1776

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

1 hour ago, Tigermojo said:

2026 it's back to the future.

oh, man, I didn't even notice that.

[SoCalTiger]

If we get the wild card I want Cleveland. Beating them in the playoffs would perfect payback.

[casimir]

Must win series.

[papalawrence]

9 hours ago, lordstanley said:

Does that bullpen cop from 2012 still work Fenway? I’d like to see Carpenter plunk one right off his head. 

He was signed by the Dodgers last year. Deferred salary, of course

[chasfh]

I’ve been wondering lately how sleep factors into the equation of player performance, and whether/how steaks or slumps contribute to that. Had the Tigers been sleeping poorly because they’d been worried by the collapse, which also made them perform poorly? Had the Guardians been crushing it because they’d been sleeping soundly, which helped them play at peak performance? Did the Tigers sleep well last night and feel better and feel more up to playing today, and are the Guardians anxious now and had a fitful sleep last night which now makes them suboptimal physically? Will that factor into tonight’s games?

These are the things I think about when I wake up in the middle of the night and lie in bed for a couple of hours before I drift back to sleep myself.

[HeyAbbott]

4 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I’ve been wondering lately how sleep factors into the equation of player performance, and whether/how steaks or slumps contribute to that. Had the Tigers been sleeping poorly because they’d been worried by the collapse, which also made them perform poorly? Had the Guardians been crushing it because they’d been sleeping soundly, which helped them play at peak performance? Did the Tigers sleep well last night and feel better and feel more up to playing today, and are the Guardians anxious now and had a fitful sleep last night which now makes them suboptimal physically? Will that factor into tonight’s games?

These are the things I think about when I wake up in the middle of the night and lie in bed for a couple of hours before I drift back to sleep myself.

Maybe they were "entertained * by a bus load of hot female ice skaters?

[HeyAbbott]

It is simple Tigers. Stay focused and win three straight. Then we don't need no stinkin' scenarios. 

[Shades of Deivi Cruz]

5 minutes ago, HeyAbbott said:

It is simple Tigers. Stay focused and win three straight. 

[1776]

26 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I’ve been wondering lately how sleep factors into the equation of player performance, and whether/how steaks or slumps contribute to that. Had the Tigers been sleeping poorly because they’d been worried by the collapse, which also made them perform poorly? Had the Guardians been crushing it because they’d been sleeping soundly, which helped them play at peak performance? Did the Tigers sleep well last night and feel better and feel more up to playing today, and are the Guardians anxious now and had a fitful sleep last night which now makes them suboptimal physically? Will that factor into tonight’s games?

These are the things I think about when I wake up in the middle of the night and lie in bed for a couple of hours before I drift back to sleep myself.

Ironic that you mention this. Watching the game last night I noticed Mize in the dugout as the game was ending.

In that the Tigers are literally in playoff mode now, I wondered why the team didn’t fly Mize out earlier in the day for the purpose of getting enough rest/sleep as opposed to flying out with the team post game. 

[Tiger337]

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

I’ve been wondering lately how sleep factors into the equation of player performance, and whether/how steaks or slumps contribute to that. Had the Tigers been sleeping poorly because they’d been worried by the collapse, which also made them perform poorly? Had the Guardians been crushing it because they’d been sleeping soundly, which helped them play at peak performance? Did the Tigers sleep well last night and feel better and feel more up to playing today, and are the Guardians anxious now and had a fitful sleep last night which now makes them suboptimal physically? Will that factor into tonight’s games?

These are the things I think about when I wake up in the middle of the night and lie in bed for a couple of hours before I drift back to sleep myself.

They need magnesium citrate gummies.  

[lordstanley]

I remember for a few years in the late ‘70s were a huge deal. And I’d say taken more seriously by some than just horoscope superstition. 

https://www.vice.com/en/article/biorhythms-the-1970s-fad-that-won-a-super-bowl-killed-clark-gable-and-made-america-gaga-for-computers/

For a while in the 1970s, these charts were everywhere. Las Vegas bookmakers like Jimmy “the Greek” Snyder factored them into betting lines. Newspapers routinely interviewed experts to see how biorhythms would play out in big games and even big elections. The ability to draw up these charts for yourself was a major selling point for the earliest personal computers. The first team to exploit computerized scouting, the Dallas Cowboys, was also the club most heavily invested in biorhythms. All of which leads to a question: How did they get so big, and how could a tool with this much supposed explanatory power disappear so completely?

Gamblers got the idea—and newspapers found it useful as well. Suddenly, sports pages were running headlines like “Biorhythms Favor Dallas,” “Biorhythms: Dodgers Must Win in 5—or Lose in 7,” and “Stabler’s Biorhythms Portend Raider Win.” The last story went on to note, “Bio-stat finds Ken Stabler peaking on physical cycle … and pluses in emotional and intellectual cycles. Franco Harris’ bio-stat finds a minus physically, a plus emotionally and a minus intellectually. Terry Bradshaw just passed through a physically critical day Saturday before the game.”

[CMRivdogs]

Maybe it's the Curse of the Rings....

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6662518/2025/09/26/detroit-tigers-mlb-uniforms-rings-sliders/?campaign=15001364&source=athletic_thewindup_newsletter&userId=213687

 

[oblong]

5 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

Maybe it's the Curse of the Rings....

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6662518/2025/09/26/detroit-tigers-mlb-uniforms-rings-sliders/?campaign=15001364&source=athletic_thewindup_newsletter&userId=213687

 

 

Scherrer worked for the Sox in 2005?  

[Tiger337]

I've heard the Scherrer story, but I heard it a slightly differently than this article says.  I read in TSN years ago that when Scherrer complained to Lajoie that he was given a different ring than Trammell and some others, Lajoie responded: That's right. You were".  I like that version better!

[Motor City Sonics]

The simple thing is this.  Win 2 out of 3 this weekend and then it doesn't matter what anyone else does, right? 

If we win 2 out of 3 and Houston sweeps then  Detroit/Boston/Houston are all a 88 - it's 

#5 Detroit   (Currently 3-0 Head-To-Head with Boston and 4-2 vs. Houston)

#6 Boston

#7 Houston

Win 1 out of 3 and you need the LA Angels to just take one game

Get swept by Boston and you need the LA Angels to win two games.  

Right? 

 

This sucks, I wanted to be relaxed at this point. 

 

Can I have this dream happen.   Tigers win tonight and tomorrow while Cleveland loses tonight and tomorrow, thus clinching the division by Sunday and not needing to use Skubal until game 1 of whatever. 

Just please,  don't let it be the Yankees vs. the Dodgers again in the World Series.    I think I can handle just about anything else.    If it can't be us, I'm rooting for the Mariners or the Brewers..........for the "small market" teams.   

 

[CMRivdogs]

9 minutes ago, oblong said:

 

Scherrer worked for the Sox in 2005?  

According to Wikipedia he was a scout