08/11/2026 6:40p EDT Cleveland Guardians vs Detroit Tigers

[casimir]

[casimir]

Might as well win this game.

[chasfh]

We have just suffered our final Monday off day for the rest of the season. All the remaining off days will be Thursdays. 

[casimir]

7 hours ago, chasfh said:

We have just suffered our final Monday off day for the rest of the season. All the remaining off days will be Thursdays. 

Oh, great.  The Motor City ****ty connects aren’t dead yet.

[oblong]

I wish someone else was starting

[antrat]

52 minutes ago, oblong said:

I wish someone else was starting

Sigh. OK. I thought I was going to have a nice, relaxing evening, but I'll go dig out my cleats and glove. 

[casimir]

1 hour ago, oblong said:

I wish someone else was starting

Dude, I am giving it my all.....

[oblong]

We are going tonight, I turned in 2 tickets from 2 weeks ago so all 4 of us could go tonight.

It is refreshing to have a "stressful" game in mid AUgust.

[chasfh]

2 hours ago, oblong said:

I wish someone else was starting

I’m really intrigued to see how he does tonight. Anderson was miscast in the bullpen and now he’s getting the fair shot to establish himself in a major league rotation in the way he probably signed up for in the first place.

[Scottgaf]

Not to state the obvious but every divisional game is huge. Even after moving their top 2 starters, this team probably has the most talent in the division. 

Keep it up guys. Would be awesome to see them make the playoffs.  That would be great experience for such a young roster.

[IdahoBert]

22 minutes ago, Scottgaf said:

Not to state the obvious but every divisional game is huge. Even after moving their top 2 starters, this team probably has the most talent in the division. 

Keep it up guys. Would be awesome to see them make the playoffs.  That would be great experience for such a young roster.

Hey, welcome to the board. 

[IdahoBert]

Bibee. Bibee… 4-11 W/L but a decent ERA. May have had some bad luck. I hope he’s not due for a rebound. This home series is virtually a playoff series. 

[IdahoBert]

It’s also nice that these games are not starting late. That got really tedious with the last road trip.

[gehringer_2]

1 minute ago, IdahoBert said:

It’s also nice that these games are not starting late. That got really tedious with the last road trip.

You think it's tedious in Idaho.

Edited August 11 by gehringer_2

[monkeytargets39]

Anderson is starting and we are facing Bibee who always beats us.

 

9-1 Tigers.

[oblong]

I hate Cleveland. All of their teams.  Especially since we've played them twice in the playoffs recently.

 

[NorthWoods]

55 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

It’s also nice that these games are not starting late. That got really tedious with the last road trip.

All the fault of those damned people that insist on living out west.

[romad1]

Weather situation tonight?  

[Hongbit]

11 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Weather situation tonight?  

Looks like a slight possibility of a late start but game will be played without issue.  Mild temps under 80 and 6mph winds blowing in from right center. 

[casimir]

15 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Weather situation tonight?  

Damp driveways.

[CaliforniaDreaming]

2 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

You think it's tedious in Idaho.

You think it's tedious in the United States.

[IdahoBert]

2 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

You think it's tedious in Idaho.

Yeah, it really sucks for people in the eastern time zone: 10 o’clock starts? But I’m an early to bed early to rise sort of guy. I like to walk early in the morning before it hits 100°. Lately it’s been 100° or more with 9% humidity. Right now it’s got all the way up to 32% humidity and that feels “damp“ by the standards of my tender, weathered skin.

[chasfh]

Get a load of this ... this is the past two weeks, or just since July 24:

All those runs scored and so few given up, and still basically just one game over .500 for that stretch.

If that July 24 game had flipped from a 2-1 win to a 3-2 loss, we would still have 100 runs scored, only 45 runs given up, an .812 pythag W-L record—and a .500 record since then.

Just bonkers. How is this not the most interesting team in baseball right now?

[chasfh]

5 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

Yeah, it really sucks for people in the eastern time zone: 10 o’clock starts?

You are definitely old enough to remember 11pm west coast games starts, since so many teams had 8pm local start times for night games way into the 70s.

[chasfh]

This ran in my Athletic newsletter. Check out the final paragraph, especially:

🤝 Middle Relief     Tigers are the biggest risers   Today’s Power Rankings tried to answer one question: How can all 30 teams feel good about the rest of this season? Here are the excerpts from our Nos. 11 and 12 teams, the Tigers and Padres, respectively. Detroit Tigers Record: 58-60 Last Power Ranking: 20 How they can feel good about the rest of the season: I mean … go to the playoffs, I guess?!   At the time of writing, there were 12 AL teams either in a playoff spot or within 3 1/2 games of one. The Tigers were right there in the middle, a game behind the Rangers for the final wild-card spot.   Detroit did play a lot of these games with Tarik Skubal and Casey Mize on the team, for sure. But they also played a lot of them without Kerry Carpenter, Wenceel Pérez, Jack Flaherty, Justin Verlander, Parker Meadows, the recently activated Jackson Jobe and new addition River Ryan, all of whom could be active before season’s end. And if you want the not-gonna-happen-but-wouldn’t-it-be-dramatic outcome: Detroit makes it into the playoffs and goes on an improbable run, and Skubal gets that World Series ring after all, despite losing Game 7. — Weaver

I assume in this scenario Weaver means the Tigers go on to beat the Dodgers in a seven-game World Series and they give still Skubal a ring. Yeah, not gonna happen—not because I reject outright the idea that the Tigers could win a World Series from the Dodgers with Skubal taking the L in Game 7, but the whole giving Skubal a ring anyway thing. I'm pretty sure that would not happen.

I could see the players voting him and Mize at least a partial share, though.