American League Division Series Game #1 10/5/24 1:08PM Tigers @ Guardians

[holygoat]

Lotta swing-and-miss in Tork's bat.

[chasfh]

Stinky McStinkface makes up some for the tough error

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

gonna take a lot more than a double to make up for the ****stream resulting from that error.

[MeanJim]

3 minutes ago, SoCalTiger said:

I thought Rameriez was out on ball three. Umpire slow to make calls and I think the crowd got him on that one. Get that out and maybe Holten survives the inning. 

He struck out. Huge (bad) call.

[chasfh]

Second inning and already Tiger hitters are desperately pressing.

[IdahoBert]

I guess the philosophy behind throwing “1st pitch strikes” is also to make sure they’re hard to hit. 

[1776]

1 minute ago, chasfh said:

Second inning and already Tiger hitters are desperately pressing.

The only guy in the lineup with playoff experience is Vierling if I’m not mistaken. Learning experience for a lot of the younger guys at the plate.

[RandyMarsh]

The Indians got Tanner Bibee in the 5th round of the 2021 MLB draft, we too took a 4 year college pitcher named Tanner in that round, too bad we took the wrong one though. 

[1776]

Babyface struggling.

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

get outs, dummies

[holygoat]

This is not the Pitching Chaos I was promised.

[guy incognito]

5 minutes ago, 1776 said:

The only guy in the lineup with playoff experience is Vierling if I’m not mistaken. Learning experience for a lot of the younger guys at the plate.

Yep. In fact, this is only the third team of the expansion era to have won a postseason series while having only one player with prior playoff experience. Others were ‘69 Mets and ‘02 Angels.

[Tiger337]

14 minutes ago, oblong said:

I’m going to keep watching because it’s Oct 5 and my team is playing.  That’s a blessing. And I can drink beer guilt free. 

I want them to win of course, but I am happy to finally see them on the post-season stage. They have already accomplished more than I expected this year and there should be many good years to come.  I couldn't fully engage in the Houston games due to work, so I'm staying with this one.   

[Tiger337]

4 minutes ago, holygoat said:

This is not the Pitching Chaos I was promised.

You got the chaos.  

[RandyMarsh]

BTW Holton gave up the same number of runs to the first 4 batters of the game that he had given up in July, August, September and the first 3 games of October combined! 

[oblong]

I mean…. Come on.  Cleveland is a good team. They want to win too.  It’s not always about what our guys did wrong. 

[SoCalTiger]

Tork

[ICroupier]

I really can't stand Tork and will be glad to see him gone.

[SoCalTiger]

That inning fizzled unfortunately. 

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

2 minutes ago, oblong said:

I mean…. Come on.  Cleveland is a good team. They want to win too.  It’s not always about what our guys did wrong. 

how dare you be level-headed on the internet of all places?

[holygoat]

So Olson has settled down nicely after a rough start. That's a nice development. 

[smr-nj]

….. never hurts to remember that, in baseball….

 

[chasfh]

OK, now it's over.

[IdahoBert]

Yeah. I wish we played tomorrow and it was like a regular season thing without an off day. It’ll be good for Skubal, but usually you want to bounce back immediately and there’s no opportunity to get the momentum immediately stirred back up.

We have defeated good teams all year. Heck even before this good run, we took two of three games from the Dodgers. But Cleveland is not interested in respecting our narrative and they’re writing their own. At least today. 

[Tenacious D]

What’s valuable in a head to head matchup with the best team in your division, you can see our deficiencies so you can start to address during the offseason.