2026 Exhibition Spring Games

[Motor City Sonics]

What number will McGonigle wear with the Tigers on Thursday in San Diego.   #7?  

[IdahoBert]

McGonigle bloops a single to keep the second inning alive

 

[Tiger337]

Good at bat for McGonigle.  Singled on the 7th pitch.    

[casimir]

3 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

If you read lips, it was "WTF!"

“Was that fastball?”

[casimir]

50 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

What is with the sound?    Hearing all kinds of sounds like a mic was left on that wasn't supposed to be on

Maybe there’s a special for microphone for a ****ing game recap?

[casimir]

Just now, casimir said:

Maybe there’s a special for microphone for a ****ing game recap?

Oh, I’m sorry, was that on?  Are we live?

[IdahoBert]

A simple six pitch inning for Valdez in the fifth and some of that is thanks to Dingler executing a pickoff. 

[IdahoBert]

So I suppose Jason is doing basketball today?

[IdahoBert]

Carp singles in Javy to tie it 1-1 in the 5th. 

[IdahoBert]

Framber goes six innings on only 67 pitches. 

[IdahoBert]

Wow Framber is out there for the seventh inning. 

[IdahoBert]

4 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

Wow Framber is out there for the seventh inning. 

Gave up a lead off triple, strikes out the next guy, and he gets the handshake from AJ. 

[IdahoBert]

Javy doubles and Matty hits a ground rule double to make it 3-1 in the 7th. 

[IdahoBert]

W. Not a tie for a change and Holton closes out the ninth with a clean inning and a K. Nice. 

[Tiger337]

1 hour ago, IdahoBert said:

Wow Framber is out there for the seventh inning. 

We should see a lot of that this year.  He typically works deep into games.

[Tigermojo]

Framber looks like a good investment. 

[Sports_Freak]

1 hour ago, Tiger337 said:

We should see a lot of that this year.  He typically works deep into games.

Another reason we need to separate him and Skubal. I see Hinch has them penciled in 1 and 2 the first week. He'll need to adjust that fairly soon. These guys, and the bullpen, are going to lead this team to a top pitching staff in MLB. This could be a very, very special season. A 100+ win season. 

[gehringer_2]

4 hours ago, IdahoBert said:

Javy doubles and Matty hits a ground rule double to make it 3-1 in the 7th. 

always a little worried each spring about guys on the wrong side of 30 but Javy looks OK so far.

Edited 14 hours ago by gehringer_2

[tiger2022]

2 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

Another reason we need to separate him and Skubal. I see Hinch has them penciled in 1 and 2 the first week. He'll need to adjust that fairly soon. These guys, and the bullpen, are going to lead this team to a top pitching staff in MLB. This could be a very, very special season. A 100+ win season. 

100+ wins will be tough with that offense.

[monkeytargets39]

5 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

We should see a lot of that this year.  He typically works deep into games.

We desperately need that since Skubal/Flaherty/Mize don’t go beyond 5+ much

[TigerNation]

2 minutes ago, monkeytargets39 said:

We desperately need that since Skubal/Flaherty/Mize don’t go beyond 5+ much

Skubal doesn't go beyond 5 much?

[gehringer_2]

47 minutes ago, TigerNation said:

Skubal doesn't go beyond 5 much?

2025 numbers: 31 starts, 195 IP. That's a 6 1/3 per start average.

[monkeytargets39]

55 minutes ago, TigerNation said:

Skubal doesn't go beyond 5 much?

Don’t know why I put Skubal on that.  
 

That applies a lot more to Olson/Montero

[IdahoBert]

1 hour ago, monkeytargets39 said:

Don’t know why I put Skubal on that.  
 

That applies a lot more to Olson/Montero

Maybe you were just thinking of those shaky Sunday games where Skubal served up lead off homers in the first. A couple of those come to mind for me. He definitely ain’t perfect but he’s pretty close regardless of a few hiccups.

[Sports_Freak]

A night game, in Detroit, in early April? What could possibly go wrong?