AJ Hinch Responds to Detroit Tigers ALDS Series Loss vs. Seattle Mariners, INSANE 15 INNING Game 5

[Music] Okay, everyone. We’ll get started with AJ H. There’s microphones on each either side of the room. Start here in the front with Chris. AJ, did you uh did you spend a a couple minutes with your team in there? And and if so, can you share what what your message was? Yeah, I did. Um let let me start let me start by saying congrats to Seattle. Um, you know, Jerry, I go back a long way with Dan. I’ve just gotten to know, I mean, that was that was an incredible win um for them, which means it was an incredible loss for us. But, um, I wish them well in the next round that they earned it. Um, and that was an epic game. Um, as far as my team goes, you know, uh, yeah, I spent some time with them to thank them. you know, we we had an incredible game today that that unfortunately somebody had to lose and that somebody was us. Um, and it hurts, you know. I mean, that group is um they gave everything they could. You had guys pitching on short rest. You had players giving everything they had because this was game five and we wanted so badly to take the next step, you know, as a team. Um, and so I wanted to thank them. you know, we have nothing to hang our our head down on. And um there’s going to be plenty of time to to to to talk about, you know, the season, this game, the the uh the peaks, the valleys. Um but I’m I’m extremely proud of that group in there of for what we accomplished and and how we fought tonight to to try to extend our season. I I guess just along that same vein, the effort you got out of Trick tonight. Um I mean that that’s about as dominant I mean it’s historically dominant performance for a postseason game. Yeah. No, he was incredible. I mean he kickstarted us in such a good direction. He missed a ton of bats. Um, I mean it again, if you’re not a fan of the Tigers and you haven’t watched TK start after start after start, you’re going to see why he gets the love that he does because he’s incredible, you know, and and um, you know, he’s an emotional leader. He’s obviously someone who brings it on the field. You see it every five or six days and we’ve asked a lot out of him all season, but specifically this postseason, you know, every five days. So, um, you want the ball in his hand and you want him to to to represent your club here on the right side. Jason AJ, when uh, you know, when the Mariners went to Spire there, um, were you pretty resolved in letting Carpenter have that at bat? Yeah, I mean, I I I thought that Spire was going to come in at any point as soon as we pressured Kirby, which we had a hard time with. I mean, he was pumping strikes and getting outs and um, and then there was so much game left. I that’s just regular game. Like I didn’t know we were going to play like a second game. Um, but I, you know, I felt like that at bat Carpenter had seen him a couple times and it wasn’t going to be just a free pinch hit. you know, depending on the score, the situation, the a lot a lot could have changed that, but given where it was in the game and and and I wasn’t going to let him run Karp out of the game and um he put a really good swing on a on a really good pitcher and and and obviously gave us a big boost. And just with the sorry, with the stress level of Scoo and and just the amount he put behind those pitches, was it a fairly straightforward decision to go to your easy decision? I talked to him after the fifth. I checked in on him how he was doing physically and emotionally and and um we both knew that he had one left, you know, and he emptied his tank and um and obviously was emotional coming off the mound and that, you know, I think that signals exactly where we were in the game and he gave us everything he could. You know, he’s pitched on regular rest now three or four starts in a row. He’s he empties his tank from pitch one. Um you know, it was it was an easy decision. left side. Cody AJ, we know games like this are all hands one deck, but as that gets into extra innings, what’s the challenge of of managing your pitching? Yeah, navigating just where they were, you know, with their order, you know, we didn’t really want to show the the middle of their order, the same pitcher. Um, you know, so I went with Kater, then I went with Jack. Um, got Tommy there at the end and guys just kept battling. I mean, I, you know, there were, you know, opportunities on both sides after the after the ninth inning. you know, it felt like it was a pretty quiet game, you know, from an opportunity standpoint until we got into extras and then there were runners everywhere and there’s double plays and there cost stealing and there’s bunts and there’s, you know, um guys picking up each other on errors or or or misplays and I mean that the back half of that game is like a game of itself, you know, and and you know, we dodged a few bullets and so did they, you know, and and felt like that game, you know, I I didn’t want want it to end, you know, certainly the way that it did, but I um we wanted to just keep giving ourselves a a puncher chance and um they outlasted us here in the middle. Some young kids really came up huge like a rookie pitcher, Kater, guy after guy. Um what are your thoughts about how the bullpen reacted? You know, well, we grew up as a team. You know, I I I do think, you know, based on last season, being able to get some experience in the postseason, it’s easy to forget how young we are and how much we’re still learning. We we have a lot to do to get better. Um, but we are taking steps that way. Like even in in the in the rough September, we took steps forward. You know, it’s not all about the record when you’re learning. And unfortunately, we we put ourselves in harm’s way a little bit, but we battled back, you know, to get the win in Cleveland, to get the win in Boston, to get a a series win in the in the wild card to take this to um about as far as you can take a series. So, we’re we are growing up. We’ve got we’ve got areas to get better, but I I think these um these experiences are are only going to help a Troy Melton or Kater or um Parker Zack um Ding, you know, catching every inning of the playoffs. There’s u there’s things to build off of this once the sting of the loss and that the abrupt ending of a season, you know, um subsides a little bit. Left side, Evan. Uh AJ, at what point in that game do you realize you have to get Jack up and then what does it say about him to be able to do what he did, get out of some really big situations? Yeah, we talked to Jack um at home before we left with, you know, sort of the way that that it was going to map out over game five and that he needed to tailor his his work to be able to be ready and he was all in. You I told him to go down about halfway through. I’m not even sure when he went down to the pen. Um but it was going to be this extra inning type of of game that was going to um take him into the into the game. So um you know as guys are getting getting up like there’s no room for error at the end. You know Kater gets into trouble. I got Jack up. Got Jack in the game. He got in trouble. I got Herder up. I got Tommy up. I mean we were going to try to piece it together the best we could. But going into the game, um, in a perfect world, if it if it, you know, with TK, Will, Finnegan, Holton, like those guys were all we’re going to pitch if needed. On the back end of that, you’re just piecing together the best you can to to extend the game because when we were pitching, we were one run from the season ending. So, we were going, you know, batter by batter. Last question here in the front, AJ. As a game like that goes on and on into extra innings, does the pressure switch all to the hitters cuz the everybody looks like they’re swinging to end the game as you would think they would and and the pitchers were just moaning them down on both sides. I I don’t I don’t think it was pressure. I think I think the intensity goes to the moment that you’re playing. Like there’s no looking ahead. You know, you you look at the moment that you’re playing and the intensity grows and every situation’s different. You know, we have second and third. the attention’s on the atbat or we had the bases loaded. The attention’s on the at bat when we you know they have first and second um with nobody out, you know, with the with the weird bunt play. Um it’s just about the moment, you know, so I don’t it wasn’t pressure, it was I mean it was intensity, you know, I mean every pitch mattered every um you know I think both sides were under a lot of duress during that time and so you know I think obviously hitters are seeing a different pitcher a lot. You got um look at all the starters that pitched today. You know, I don’t know. I mean, I’d love for this series to go another sixth and seventh game, but I’m not sure any of us have pitching to get through two more games. You know, certainly not the way these these five games were played. So, um you could feel the intensity because of of how badly both teams wanted it. And you know, again, one team had to lose unfortunately for and that was us. All right, AJ, thank you for coming in. We appreciate it. Heat. Heat. [Music]

Watch as AJ Hinch Responds to Detroit Tigers ALDS Series Loss vs. Seattle Mariners, INSANE 15 INNING Game 5

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45 comments

  3. Aj hinch dumb asf for letting meadows and Keith hit for 15 innings and not pinch hitting throughout the whole game when that’s how they won most their playoff games and also putting the worse closer in the league out there when it was do or die dumb ass decisions don’t win games

  4. As much as everyone says professional sports is about winning championships, it ultimately is about entertainment and the Tigers provided that this game, this series, and all year!

  7. Good luck mariners. Its bittersweet for me my grandma is on hospice and loves the tigers. This might be her last tigers game so win it all for her. We still have our lions to maybe give her a championship this year.

  12. Damn, loved watching my M’s win but I got to say they played a hell of a game. like he said, someone had to lose. This time it was them but if we had to replay that game it would be a coin toss. Wish them well. go M’s!

  14. Hats off to the Tigers organization and specifically to AJ their manager. Such a class act. And I agree with his assessment, I don’t know how or who each team would’ve had available to pitch if this was a seven game series, given the intensity and the desire to win, that both teams demonstrated throughout the series.

  16. Detroit mgr made a big mistake walking Jrod to get to Polanco, Rodriguez hasn’t done anything in pressure situations and especially in this game, no doubt he would’ve bounced into a double play ball or struck out at the least. Pitching to Polanco was a mistake because he’s much more disciplined at the plate and also puts the ball in play. Seattle only has basically two or 3 players that don’t rely on the homerun and Polanco is one of them.

  24. AJ should not have been allowed on the plane back to Detroit. Tiger owners should have told him to take a Uber. How do you take out the best pitcher in baseball when he is on fire. It's do or die and AJ is going to take him out because he thew too many pitches? Pitch count means nothing. If it is a problem , throw less warm ups. AJ should be fired today. What a disappointing s

  25. Hinch heros Skubal in for 7th. You can do nothing else. Gotta be top tenner in backbreaking coaching decisions in Tiger history. Disastrous. Finnegan sucked again and allowed Seattle to establish the critical "you score, we score" dynamic. I called it when I saw Skubal in dugout with towel around neck even before change was announced…I called Detroit would give up tying run and lose on extra innings. Hinch just told Skubal and Carpenter to go screw yourselves and did it his way. The wrong way

    Then he leaves Perez and Jones on bench inning after inning after strikeout after strikeout until he lost. I'd be generous to Detroit, too, if I was Seattle. Somehow, I think Toronto experience will be different from both a managerial and intensity level than what Seattle was blessed with vs Detroit.

  29. Society and media revel in loss, no matter what aspect of life it is. Like a wounded animal, you want your story. I'm not talking about just baseball, in ANY ASPECT OF LIFE, the guy sitting at the bar whose life is in shambles, nobody bothers to ask him what's on his mind and get him out of a setting that's only going to make his life worse.

    When people have lost their interest in you self-degradating and it's not funny, they leave you, pitiful, on the floor. They don't see you've had too much and fall on the floor and go "Ohhhhh, and go scrape you up and take you home", their usefulness for you is done and you're left unto yourself. That's today's society or the world as a whole.

    In sports, it's as crucial to learn from loss as it is to learn from your wins. Life is all about loss. There's a lot more losses than there are wins for most people in the world and it's how you deal with losses healthily that matter. For these guys, ITS JUST BASEBALL. Sure, it's what they do, but it's just a game. For the Guardians, it's just a game and it's a means to provide for what's most important. When the rest of the world throws you away and treats you like garbage or boos you, it's your family that keeps cheering you on, that picks you up, and keeps you going. These guys spend so much time away from their families and missing the important parts of their families lives, that sometimes it's the root cause of the family unit falling apart. Now, they get to go be with their family. You gotta brush this aside and get to what really makes you the most happy, them. Baseball is for this life, family isn't. Family is always with you. Family is the most important thing in these guys lives, far more than baseball. Dad's spending time with their sons playing catch with them and teaching them the game is far more rewarding than a pendant or a trophy, and they understand that. These guys make millions of dollars, while the people that show up to the stadium to watch them are barely getting by. These guys have more time to give to their community to help their community become strong and support their communities.

    Anyone whose played sports knows loss, it's important to know loss to better appreciate your victories. The media eats Hinch alive, but he's got what's more important to him, and a part of his community that's hurting right now from loss. Most instances are acknowledged by sports teams, Detroit's most recent tragedy was brushed aside and the town has dealt with it alone. There's more important things to worry about and more to life than baseball. And baseball can teach a man to be better in dealing with loss and how he can respect and treat others.

    As Ive watched the Stanley Cups Finals, usually, and this being my first MLB Playoff Series (thankfully hockey has just started up), but the deeper you get into the playoffs, the worse it gets because it gets harder and the losses hurt a lot more. To get to the World Series and lose the World Series or the Stanley Cup Final, especially game seven and by a single goal, is far worse than a round one or round two loss. The deeper you get, the worse it feels

  30. First off. 🔱 's UP! Second… 🧢 off to Detroit for one hell of a series. Myself as a Mariners fan. Both teams reminded a lot of us 50+ in age fans what baseball was like. True sportsmanship from Both teams. Both teams being pelted by pitches and both teams kept it at bay. No fights. Just pure baseball. Scooby-Doo, that's man is one hell of a pitcher. Keep that guy. Next year I see a playoff run for Detroit and not being in a wildcard spot. Thanks for 15 innings of having life alert on standby. GO MARINERS!!!!

  33. "I didn't want it to end" as a Mariners fan I didn't want it to end either….. It was like living a life or death moment.. just insane back and forth.. you guys were formidable

  34. Fire Hinch! He is holding this team back by not getting his best players 600 at bats! Example- Carpenter. For not teaching small ball!
    Harris needs to go too

  38. As a Mariners fan, I thank the Tigers for bringing on such great competitiveness. A.J. Hinch is a class act. I always thought he was a class act as a player and now he proves it as a coach. Fans are a class act as well.

  39. Detroit Tigers are still winners in my book. That 5th game was entertaining which is what pro ball games are all about. Unfortunately with The Tigers, The Cubs and even The Yankees being out of the playoffs, the rest of the post season will be boring. Ratings will 📉📉

  40. I like AJ Hinch. Seems a decent person and is a very solid, smart Manager. I follow closely the team, but I am more impressed with the hitting and outfield less with the bullpen💁🏾
    Go Detroit Tigers⚾

  41. A.J. you are a fool to have taken out Skubal after six innings. That was such a dumb ass mistake on your part because this is it. No tomorrow. Skubal was striking out everybody he faced just about and you take him out of the game, HUH? I'm sorry your can't explain that "F" up unless you were on drugs.

  43. I think the loss by the Tigers happened mid season. If they would have won a few more games they would have been the #1 or #2 seed and hosting this game.

  45. Not sure why you dont keep Skubal in for the 7th or 8th inning. The Mariners wouldnt have tied. Why bring in Holton only to take him out after one batter. In extra innings, you Gotta keep Melton in longer. And then, if you have to put in Flaherty, he needs to stay in longer. Just no need to put in Kahnle – that is just giving the game away. He only pitches changeups

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