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yup, letting Boyd start the 7th didn't save the BP a single pitce because he didn't get anyone out, which is often the way it goes in that situation. Of course OTOH, when you get shut out post mortems on pitching management decisions are moot.

It may have had as much to do with the opportunity to close as well. The BP in Ari was wide open coming into this season, and Chafin has been able to at least share the closers role. In Det he had been behind Soto last season and could see Lange as the favorite son this season and maybe figured Ariz was a much better shot to build closer credentials toward a bigger 2024 payday. That's not anybody's failure, (and it's not some knock on Detroit as a city to play in either) it's a measure of organization's BP strength if the guy saw a better shot at the closer's role somewhere else.

this. As inconceivable as it may be, our Tigers have the most road wins and the most wins against winning teams in our division.

If they want him to get a lot of experince at 3rd, Toledo would be the place thought. That pitching staff is giving up a LOT of contact....🙄

I'll still be surprised if they don't sag back again a bit over the next couple of weeks, Wentz, Faedo and Boyd are going to remain unpredictable at best. They just have to keep in striking distance though because the pitching help is in the pipeline.

A baseball game is pretty multivariate, but you can take right back to the way they chased Cease - it meant that we had our BP ace available for the 10th and the Sox had already spent theirs.

and a 90 run differential between us and Mn. All old Pythogaras can do is contemplate how acute the Tigers have been.

Riley's catch even huger with them having come back to win.

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That's the kind of AB I don't like to see from Torkelson. Takes a thigh high FB he could have ripped, takes a hanging breaking ball nearly middle middle that could have been pasted, then swings at a ball and gets himself out. Don't take strikes you can hit - you might not get another. You can say that out was about swinging out of the zone, I'd say it was as much about not swinging in the zone.

Of course, hits also distribute between 1 and 4 bases each, sadly not so much walks.

this is swirling toward trouble.

Average is OK. I don't think you want to have your offense be too dependent on the other side's pitchers missing because there will be a lot of days when they don't and you have to have ways to be in those games too.

you wouldn't know there have only been 8 hits total in this game.

Tork with his third walk (2nd that put him on base)

somebody must have the boat warmed up and the bait on board for Mulchinski after the game. He's clearly in a hurry to get outta Dodge.

I'd swear the ump gave Frazier two time-outs in that AB.

Grifol being stupid here.

well, that worked.

It's going to be medical malfeasance to leave Cease out there to throw many more in one inning.

yeah - that one was pretty terrible. That was one of those pitches Dickerson talks about as never having been a strike at any point in its flight.

Tigers work Cease for a couple dozen pitches in the 2nd and walk away empty. Sox drop Rodriguez's thrid pitch of the third into the seats. So much for the value of making pitchers work....

TTBDNS. Cease at 48 pitches after 2.

damn, I thought Baddoo was going to save that AB with a walk. He was doing a great job of not offering as Cease's pitches dove low, but Cease crossed him up going up and away on 3-2.

Eduardo starts out the game the hard way giving up a lead off double, and Haase takes a crack at letting the run in, but the Tigers escape without giving up the lead.