4/20/25 1:40PM Royals @ Tigers

[Tigeraholic1]

Comerica Park - Detroit, MI

Listen: 97.1 The Ticket

Watch: FanDuel Sports DET

Game Time Forecast: Parlty Cloudy 53

Starters:

RHP Michael Wacha

LHP Tarik Skubal

[Tigeraholic1]

 

[Motor City Sonics]

CARLOS CORREA IS

         DERP DEE DERP DEE DUM DE

                   OVERRATED DE DEERP DE 37 MILLION 

                                      DERP TUM DEE TOOTILLY DUM

                                                                                         RATED PG

[papalawrence]

2 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

CARLOS CORREA IS

         DERP DEE DERP DEE DUM DE

                   OVERRATED DE DEERP DE 37 MILLION 

                                      DERP TUM DEE TOOTILLY DUM

                                                                                         RATED PG

Tigers dodged a huge bullet! Then AA turned to Javy and payroll took one in the chest

[IdahoBert]

Good lineup today I love it when a plan comes together. 

[casimir]

San Diego is in Houston for the ESPN Sunday night game tonight.  Here’s hoping the Easter Bunny delivered extra innings for that game.

[IdahoBert]

Dead feed for me on the Tigers radio app but the KC one is working. I wonder if this is an MLB problem or a problem on the Tigers end… DUH I just realized that the Tigers pregame show isn’t as long as the KC one and the game doesn’t start for another 34 minutes. 

[casimir]

5 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

Dead feed for me on the Tigers radio app but the KC one is working. I wonder if this is an MLB problem or a problem on the Tigers end… DUH I just realized that the Tigers pregame show isn’t as long as the KC one and the game doesn’t start for another 34 minutes. 

It seems for me that part of the radio pregame is always cut off.

Edited April 20 by casimir

[Tigermojo]

[Sports_Freak]

Happy Skubal Day.

[Sports_Freak]

[Sports_Freak]

Javy is due. 2 home runs today.

[Sports_Freak]

One of these days, Skubal will throw a "special" game.

[romad1]

Kerry Carpenter and Jake Rogers have two weird swings. 

[chasfh]

Dan said Carpenter would stop at second but he ran right on to third and dared the RF to throw him out there, which he couldn’t. Being super aggressive on the bases doesn’t work every time, but it’s working enough to make it a good strategy in general.

Edited April 20 by chasfh

[Tenacious D]

3 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Dan said Carpenter would stop at second but he ran right on to third and dared the RF to throw him out there, which he couldn’t. Being super aggressive on the bases doesn’t work every time, but it’s working enough to make it a good strategy in general.

An accurate throw would have nailed Carp—it easily beat him, but was up the line. Agree it’s worth the chance.

And then Riley with a soft ground ball to 2B to end the rally.

[chasfh]

Just now, Tenacious D said:

An accurate throw would have nailed Carp—it easily beat him, but was up the line. Agree it’s worth the chance.

And then Riley with a soft ground ball to 2B to end the rally.

Speaking of which, an accurate throw is what McKinstry made to get the runner at third on that second base hit, except Javy flubbed it.

[chasfh]

Wouldn’t it be the most baseball thing to go into the fourth game of a series gunning for a sweep with your Cy Young winner on the mound and then he gets run off the mound in the second or third inning after giving up something like seven runs?

#jinx

[monkeytargets39]

11 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Dan said Carpenter would stop at second but he ran right on to third and dared the RF to throw him out there, which he couldn’t. Being super aggressive on the bases doesn’t work every time, but it’s working enough to make it a good strategy in general.

It helps that we aren’t so offensively starved that the possibility of him being thrown out at third doesn’t represent the only likely chance to score in the game like it had been in recent Tiger history

[romad1]

7 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Wouldn’t it be the most baseball thing to go into the fourth game of a series gunning for a sweep with your Cy Young winner on the mound and then he gets run off the mound in the second or third inning after giving up something like seven runs?

#jinx

Tigers have some sense of urgency to today.  Early reservations at Chucky Cheese?

[chasfh]

Kerry Carpenter caught that foul fly near the stands for the second out. I wonder whether it would’ve been OK for him to just toss the ball into the stands to a kid? After all, nobody was on base to keep close, and they were going to use a new ball on the next hitter anyway.

[Tigermojo]

Score runs for Skub dummies!

[romad1]

Just now, Tigermojo said:

Score runs for Skub dummies!

I concur

[chasfh]

Skubal’s was close to a quality start. We have time to cover the deficit here. And the Sweeney base hit to start the fifth might be the good start we need.

EDIT: oops that was Colt Keith with the leadoff single, wasn’t it? But Sweeney followed up with his own base hit and now runners on first and third with no out in the fifth.

Edited April 20 by chasfh

[romad1]

1 minute ago, chasfh said:

Skubal’s was close to a quality start. We have time to cover the deficit here. And the Sweeney base hit to start the fifth might be the good start we need. 

That was Keith but if you are predicting a Sweeney hit, I'm good.