04/24/2026 6:40p EDT Detroit Tigers at Cincinnati Reds

[lordstanley]

Damn! The Tigers were a 2-2 checked swing away from winning and just lost on walkoff homer. 

[IdahoBert]

We live in a bad world. 

[NorthWoods]

All because Laz Dias miscalled a check swing

Edited 12 hours ago by NorthWoods

[GalagaGuy]

Can't wait to hear how the haters blame Hinch for this one.  

[JackMorrisStache]

DFA Jansen

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

1 minute ago, NorthWoods said:

All because Blas Dias miscalled a check swing

"all"? I dunno about that.

[Hongbit]

That was worse than the Lions 2024 draft.  

[NorthWoods]

1 minute ago, Crazy Cat Gentleman said:

"all"? I dunno about that.

Lol...well and Javy being lax

And some undeserved walks

[lordstanley]

5 minutes ago, Crazy Cat Gentleman said:

"all"? I dunno about that.

And the rain letting up. 

Edited 12 hours ago by lordstanley

[Hongbit]

54 minutes ago, NorthWoods said:

All because Laz Dias miscalled a check swing

I never thought I’d ever say these words but I actually agreed with the call from Laz Diaz.   He just held up the swing.

 

Edited 11 hours ago by Hongbit

[SoCalTiger]

1 hour ago, GalagaGuy said:

Tigers play well - Players get the credit

Tigers play poorly - Manager gets the blame

 

Im not blaming Hinch just asking him to fix it.

[casimir]

12 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

Plus we faced a crazy number of RH pitchers to start the season. When we finally faced a LH pitcher, he was sick with that stomach flu. I'm glad Hinch stuck with him, it woukda been easy to demote him.

Also another good point.

[Sports_Freak]

7 hours ago, NorthWoods said:

Lol...well and Javy being lax

And some undeserved walks

The Tigers pitchers inability to throw strikes was the biggest issue. Hitting 4 home runs while scoring 8 runs and losing? That's on the pitching.

[chasfh]

8 hours ago, GalagaGuy said:

Tigers play well - Avila get the credit

Tigers play poorly - Harris gets the blame

 

😉 

[chasfh]

This is only the second time in history this specific situation occurred in history: (1) Tigers take a five-plus run lead, then (2) lose the lead to go down two-plus runs, then (3) retake the lead, but (4) end up losing the game:

July 19, 2008 at the Orioles: https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BAL/BAL200807190.shtml

June 25, 1934 at the A’s: https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/PHA/PHA193406250.shtml

That 1934 game was extra special because between (2) and (3), we tied the game, then went down a run before retaking the two-run lead.

[Klondike99]

9 hours ago, Hongbit said:

That was worse than the Lions 2024 draft.  

24??

[Klondike99]

1 hour ago, Sports_Freak said:

The Tigers pitchers inability to throw strikes was the biggest issue. Hitting 4 home runs while scoring 8 runs and losing? That's on the pitching.

Damn Harris! We need pitching and defense dammit 

[Sports_Freak]

27 minutes ago, Klondike99 said:

Damn Harris! We need pitching and defense dammit 

The control issue was quite a surprise. All the Tiger pitchers seemed to keep falling behind hitters. Falling behind hitters is a recipe for disaster.

[Tenacious D]

This is probably a .500 team with our bullpen. I don’t see any help coming from within and teams don’t usually give up any players of worth prior to July.  Even then, we’d need to add 2-3 arms to be competitive.  Our saving grace is that we play in the AL Central and should be able to hang around most of the season.

[Nate7474]

Just now, Tenacious D said:

This is probably a .500 team with our bullpen. I don’t see any help coming from within and teams don’t usually give up any players of worth prior to July.  Even then, we’d need to add 2-3 arms to be competitive.  Our saving grace is that we play in the AL Central and should be able to hang around most of the season.

I think we have some financial constraints that are going to keep us from being buyers so we don’t lose out on draft picks. Getting Verlander, which hopefully can be a starter moves Flaherty or Monterro to the pen and that’ll help. Also Melton and Jobe being able to help out of the pen or as starters late this year will help with quality arms. With that said we are a couple arm injuries that will inevitably happen from disaster right now on the pitching side. 

[Tenacious D]

I’m not counting on Melton or Jobe this season.  Anything we get is a plus.

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, Tenacious D said:

I’m not counting on Melton or Jobe this season.  Anything we get is a plus.

Unfortunately, if looks as if this team is not going to do anything this season unless a couple of pluses do appear.

Edited 36 minutes ago by gehringer_2

[monkeytargets39]

1 hour ago, Tenacious D said:

I’m not counting on Melton or Jobe this season.  Anything we get is a plus.

Melton is close to starting a rehab assignment

[gehringer_2]

4 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

The Tigers pitchers inability to throw strikes was the biggest issue. Hitting 4 home runs while scoring 8 runs and losing? That's on the pitching.

don't underestimate the smaller K zone. Walks are up all across the league, and the Tiger pitchers are actually about average overall. Of course given that Skubal is WAY below average that means everyone else is a bit above, but as a team they are not an outlier (yet?). These guys all need to pitch to the smaller zone - and I don't think anybody should expect to see last yrs ERAs. That said, the converse is that the offense has to better than last year as well because everyone else's will be.

[gehringer_2]

11 hours ago, JackMorrisStache said:

DFA Jansen

I always hate to see my team sign old pitchers. The probability of fall off or injury is always higher. We've already had one and can only hope last night is not a sign of the other.