9/14/24 6:10PM Orioles @ Tigers

[Tigermojo]

Cincy up 5-1 in the 4th.

Now 7-1 in the 4th.

Errr 9-1 end of 4th.

Edited September 15, 2024 by Tigermojo

[IdahoBert]

Leaving Maeda in with the hope of winning tomorrow. Not every hill is worth dying on. Going 2-1 against a good team like Baltimore would be success. 

[Motor City Sonics]

Reds are helping us out !

[Tigermojo]

Up the middle defense tonight.

[IdahoBert]

OK, it’s time to win this game in the dramatic walk off fashion that we have gotten used to. It needs to be the equivalent of the kid in Christmas Story getting the Red Ryder range model air rifle with a compass in the stock and this thing that tells time and NOT shooting our eye out. 

[Tigermojo]

Boom

[IdahoBert]

Yes, yes yes it begins Parker homer. 
 

[IdahoBert]

Colt Keith singles

[Motor City Sonics]

Kerry - there's a couple ballparks in MLB where that would have been out. 

[Tigermojo]

Come on Tork

[IdahoBert]

[Tigermojo]

McKinstry in August...yes

McKinstry in September...no

[Motor City Sonics]

You know what,  they lost but I was on the edge of my seat on September 14th.    It's been a long time since I could say that. 

[IdahoBert]

Well, we didn’t get the air rifle for Christmas, but neither did we shoot out our eye, nor remain scoreless for 17 innings. The glass is half full.
 

[Tigermojo]

Just now, Motor City Sonics said:

You know what,  they lost but I was on the edge of my seat on September 14th.    It's been a long time since I could say that. 

They made it interesting. Burnes has been tough on everyone.

[kdog]

Burnes dominated and they needed a few more rallies. You can’t get it all back at once.

[IdahoBert]

Tomorrow it’s Montero for us and Cade Povich for the Orioles. Who da’ baby daddy?

[Sports_Freak]

1 minute ago, IdahoBert said:

Tomorrow it’s Montero for us and Cade Povich for the Orioles. Who da’ baby daddy?

Povich has only won once is his last 7 starts. And I'm not sure it counts, he beat the WSox. I guess we could just give him an * for that win. But he is a lefty....

[gehringer_2]

scored just enough to be irritating.

[Sports_Freak]

8 minutes ago, kdog said:

Burnes dominated and they needed a few more rallies. You can’t get it all back at once.

At least the Twins are getting pounded again and at home again. They're falling off a cliff.

[Sports_Freak]

11 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

Well, we didn’t get the air rifle for Christmas, but neither did we shoot out our eye, nor remain scoreless for 17 innings. The glass is half full.
 

We need to carry this winning thing into 2025. We could be going for the division next season. Kinda like the Lions finishing 8-2 and barely missing the playoffs in 2022.

[gehringer_2]

I'm going to take Torkelson's single to right to keep the game going as a sign he's trying to become a smarter hitter. It doesn't seem like it but he's hitting 270, 780 OPS since his return. Hope not dead yet.

Edited September 15, 2024 by gehringer_2

[IdahoBert]

1 minute ago, gehringer_2 said:

I'm going to take Torkelson's single to right to keep the game going as a sign he's trying to become a more versatile hitter. It doesn't seem like it but he's hitting 270, 780 OPS since his return. Hope not dead yet.

A great and memorable quote from the Repo Man movie - Kevin: “There's [blank] room to move as a fry cook. I could be manager in two years. King. God!”

I jest, but I do agree with you. 

[gehringer_2]

11 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

We need to carry this winning thing into 2025. We could be going for the division next season. Kinda like the Lions finishing 8-2 and barely missing the playoffs in 2022.

big challenge next season will be to sort out all the arms. At this point, given that they are still stuck with Maeda, I don't want to see them bring in another reclamation product or 'innings eater.' if they sign a pitcher it should be serious  multi-year signing of a #2/3 guy. 

[IdahoBert]

40 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

big challenge next season will be to sort out all the arms. At this point, given that they are still stuck with Maeda, I don't want to see them bring in another reclamation product or 'innings eater.' if they sign a pitcher it should be serious  multi-year signing of a #2/3 guy. 

I guess (and I truly am guessing out of thin air air here) they could do that, but given how the new guys appear to be flourishing — for now at least — I have some doubts about ownership pulling the trigger on something like that that; it doesn’t seem to be in their DNA, especially given how prone to injury pitchers are, and that the Ilitch family might possibly like to be proven mostly right about their strategy of building from within. It’s the kind of thing a top-tier monied team would do, but I don’t think they see this team that way. I’ve become kind of cynical about this ownership group. No matter what, the off-season will be interesting.