5/29/25 9:10PM Tigers @ Dodgers

[SoCalTiger]

Our pitching and base running wasn't good enough. Pretty simple analysis.

[Tigermojo]

No game on a Sunday. Dodgers ruin everything.

[gehringer_2]

7 minutes ago, SoCalTiger said:

Our pitching and base running wasn't good enough. Pretty simple analysis.

one for a bazillion with RISP didn't help either.

[1776]

Blowing game two in the bottom of the 10th is on the Tigers. It wasn’t the schedule makers or the payrolls. You have a two run lead and give up five runs while recording one out, it’s on you. 
Had Brieske closed that inning clean the trip into LA would be considered a success. 

 

[gehringer_2]

Regression in the BP performance may turn out to be the soft underbelly of this team. A lot of guys probably were pitching better than their expected values last season. Also doesn't hope that we are getting zero from Lange and Foley, who as recently as a year ago were our expected 1 and 2 BP arms.

[Tiger337]

2 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

Regression in the BP performance may turn out to be the soft underbelly of this team. A lot of guys probably were pitching better than their expected values last season. 

That is the case for virtually every bullpen.  I trust that Hinch and Fetter will the most out of their bullpen, but I doubt that last year's perfect storm happens again. Bullpens are fickle.   

[SoCalTiger]

1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:

one for a bazillion with RISP didn't help either.

Yes. Probably the main thing.

[casimir]

5 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said:

The league really hurt the Tigers with this scheduling.     Why aren't the Dodgers playing a rival or divisional foe to start the real season.    Then we have to go to Seattle where we always struggle.     Might be starting out 0-6 while playing halfway decent baseball.   

It doesn't help that our pitchers have to throw it right down the middle to get a strike and theirs don't.  

I know the pitch-framing catchers (and Rogers is one of the best) would lose a lot of value, but they can't implement the ABS.   

Tigers were getting squeezed the whole series and then that play at the plate.   I thought you needed CLEAR evidence to overturn a call?  

This league wants the Dodgers to set a record.   They want that 117 for their big star (who illegally gambled). 

Actually what had happened was the Tigers won 2 of the 3 game, but the gestapos in MLB used AI to broadcast a Dodgers sweep.  We are now in an alternate universe, but we’ll be linked back up to reality in a few weeks.

Look, if you’re going to go half baked drama queen conspiracy theory, don’t half ass it.  Step into it full throttle.

[casimir]

I am the walrus.  Coo coo, ca choo.

[IdahoBert]

1 hour ago, Tigermojo said:

No game on a Sunday. Dodgers ruin everything.

On the eighth day, God invented baseball, but not for the Detroit Tigers today. 

[Tenacious D]

Tigers were a playoff team last season, so not sure why they couldn’t play the Dodgers.  And as a local, I appreciate the Tigers starting on the road in a good weather area.  Probably two rainouts this weekend if they opened at home.

A lot of teams are going to lose to the Dodgers—it was just our turn.  
 

Now just go 159-3

[Tenacious D]

9 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

On the eighth day, God invented baseball, but not for the Detroit Tigers today. 

Tigers are the Chick-fil-A of MLB

[chasfh]

6 minutes ago, Tenacious D said:

Tigers are the Chick-fil-A of MLB

Four teams are off today.

[Motor City Sonics]

Well, if Keith continues looking so lost and Malloy continues what he's doing..........maybe a swap would be in order.  

[gehringer_2]

2 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Well, if Keith continues looking so lost and Malloy continues what he's doing..........maybe a swap would be in order.  

I had thought Malloy's return became more likely once they got past the Dodger lefty loaded bullpen regardless.