04/15/2026 6:40 pm EDT Kansas City Royals at Detroit Tigers

[gehringer_2]

very polite of the Tigers to let the Royals bullpen take off pitching 9th innings.

[Motor City Sonics]

What a bizarre half-inning.    A near walk-off pick off and then a balk.   

 

I don't think Kenley's available tomorrow afternoon (if there's even a game). 

[chasfh]

Los four straight, win five straight. Easy peasy.

Tigers are now 9-9.

[IdahoBert]

Twice, twice when a call was being reviewed and it was obvious what the call would be Jason persisted with “but is there enough to overturn it” when there obviously wasn’t. I don’t know if he wants to build suspense or what but that’s not the way to do it.

[Sports_Freak]

Tigers 5 game home stand winning streak, we've given up 0, 1, 2, 1, 1 runs. A top 5 pitching staff....

[chasfh]

2 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Tigers 5 game home stand winning streak, we've given up 0, 1, 2, 1, 1 runs. A top 5 pitching staff....

And it is all pitching, because defense has been kind of ass.

[Sports_Freak]

That Logan guy is OK. It took a while to accept him but yeah, he's alright 

[chasfh]

4 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

Twice, twice when a call was being reviewed and it was obvious what the call would be Jason persisted with “but is there enough to overturn it” when there obviously wasn’t. I don’t know if he wants to build suspense or what but that’s not the way to do it.

Maybe he got a note. Thankfully Dan didn’t get the same note.

BTW, here to say Javy’s slide was arguably the difference between winning and losing. For sure, it’s the reason we’re celebrating a win at this very moment instead of watching yet another inning.

[Tiger337]

1 minute ago, chasfh said:

Maybe he got a note. Thankfully Dan didn’t get the same note.

BTW, here to say Javy’s slide was arguably the difference between winning and losing. For sure, it’s the reason we’re celebrating a win at this very moment instead of watching yet another inning.

Awesome slide by Baez, but Perez's home run was also the difference.  

[IdahoBert]

That 42 looks really noble on everybody’s back, but for some reason, it looks best on McGonigle’s back. I don’t know why, maybe I’m just partial.

[GalagaGuy]

Royals had 2 triples and neither one scored.  

[chasfh]

Just now, Tiger337 said:

Awesome slide by Baez, but Perez's home run was also the difference.  

Without Javy’s slide being overturned—without his heady swim move around Salvy’s tag attempt—he’s called out and we’re still watching baseball right now.

[chasfh]

1 minute ago, IdahoBert said:

That 42 looks really noble on everybody’s back, but for some reason, it looks best on McGonigle’s back. I don’t know why, maybe I’m just partial.

Maybe it’s because he plays like you imagine Jackie Robinson played!

[Sports_Freak]

This kid caught the Perez HR;

 

[IdahoBert]

1 minute ago, chasfh said:

Maybe it’s because he plays like you imagine Jackie Robinson played!

That’s probably part of it. 

[IdahoBert]

Yeah, the guy that caught Perez’s home run that was pretty darn endearing. Talk about happy as heck.

[casimir]

9 hours ago, IdahoBert said:

Whoa. Reminds me of Indiana as a kid. Nothing will ever compare to the Palm Sunday tornadoes in 1965. In Northeast Indiana we were without power or water for three days. We suffered no damage, but the infrastructure we were connected to was completely disrupted. If we got tapwater, we were told to boil it and fortunately, we had a gas stove.

We drove further north several days later and many of the small lake communities in Northeast Indiana were completely obliterated with every lake house completely demolished, and the only thing still standing was the bathroom fixtures.

We drove up to Coldwater Michigan, and the devastation was honestly unspeakable. 44 people died there.

Glad Detroit is relatively “safe.“

That’s when two tornadoes went through Manitou Beach / Devils Lake, not far from Coldwater, within like 2 or 3 hours of each other.  There was action from that front in Toledo, too.  My dad remembers living not far from the path of a tornado there.

[Tiger337]

4 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Without Javy’s slide being overturned—without his heady swim move around Salvy’s tag attempt—he’s called out and we’re still watching baseball right now.

Without Perez's home run, we are still watching baseball now too.  Maybe not me!  But everyone else would be.  

[IdahoBert]

Montero tomorrow see you then!

[Tenacious D]

Bert conflicted—nice to get the win, but you couldn’t scratch out 6 measly runs?

[Sports_Freak]

40 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Maybe he got a note. Thankfully Dan didn’t get the same note.

BTW, here to say Javy’s slide was arguably the difference between winning and losing. For sure, it’s the reason we’re celebrating a win at this very moment instead of watching yet another inning.

Gotta say though, that right fielder for KC has a cannon for an arm. Gotta be careful running on him. Javy is quick and that was a medium/deep fly ball Jake hit. Woulda been out without a magician slide.

[Sports_Freak]

26 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

Montero tomorrow see you then!

Bring your umbrella...or a boat.

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, GalagaGuy said:

Royals had 2 triples and neither one scored.  

well, they had one triple and the Tigers had one three base error of a type that scorers don't count.

[casimir]

I don't recall seeing back-to-back plays at the plate like that before, certainly not with the flare of the slide by Baez.