AJ Hinch & Dillon Dingler Recap Detroit Tigers Wild Card Series Win vs. Cleveland, CLUTCH Home Run

AJ Hinch & Dillon Dingler Recap Detroit Tigers Wild Card Series Win vs. Cleveland, CLUTCH Home Run

Yes, you both can take this one. Um, you know, we talk about it’s sweeter for the adversity, sweeter for the grind, sweeter for all the all the stuff you went through the last month. Yeah, I think just sweet is enough. Like, I don’t think it needs to be any sweeter than what it feels like right now because you have to earn these wins, you know? You have to earn the opportunity to play in October. You got to earn uh a full series win over a good team, a hot team. um a team that we know well, but I you know I’m so proud of of Dylan. I’m proud of our team. I’m you know you got to fight and we did and we have and we have to continue to do that. It’s gets harder and harder as you go. The series get longer but you know when you earn it um that’s what makes it sweet. Dylan good. The home run seemed to, you know, obviously broke the tie, but it also seemed to like break the seal like there was, it felt like even the seventh inning came and it was just one hit after another. How big a moment is that for you? I mean, what were you feeling running that B circling the bases there? No, it was huge. It was huge. Obviously, I’ve been saying this, um, I was scratching and crawling a little bit this series and, you know, I was able to get a pitch to hit and able to do a little bit of damage, but yeah, the momentum, I feel like the momentum in the series was the biggest thing. with the team with the biggest momentum or the most momentum was the one that was going to kind of carry on. So, we’re able to flip it right there and then we had a huge what sixth inning? Sixth inning, able to score some runs and kind of be in the driver’s seat a little bit. It was it was a big win. What does it say that so many of the guys that had been scuffed on just a little bit, you know, Wel Riley to were able to come through with big hits? Yeah, we we were, you know, we were right on the cusp of of that the entire series. you know, obviously uh jumped on Terk’s back in on in the first game in the second game. The story about the the guys left on base and so many opportunities and if just one hit would would break open the the whether it’s confidence or momentum or just just being contagious and and Wel did that. We had some incredible at bats early that didn’t go our way. But, you know, as we talked about before the game, like you got to stay in the fight for 27 outs. you got to you’re going to have to face some adversity whether it’s you know a a bad play or a bad pitch or a bad call or something’s going to happen that you got to fight back from and and we did and so when when Wel got the hit um I don’t know why in baseball it seems like one good thing happens and then two three four five at bats in a row um were exceptional and and um we wanted to get even more you know greedy and and do more but it’s it was nice to separate and breathe a little bit Um but knowing they weren’t going to give it give in. Right. AJ, what is Dylan’s emergence um as your everyday catcher meant to this team this year? Yeah. So it it’s a you know I’m I’m obviously biased because I’m an ex- catcher, but I believe in presence. I believe in stability and and what a pitching staff needs is is the guy behind the plate that they know what they’re going to get regardless of the ups and downs on the offensive side. And what he’s given us on the offensive side is is exceptional. So, uh, but our play our pitchers trust them and you have to earn that. You can’t just show up and be a big leager, put on a big league uniform and and and get that inevitably. You have to you have to go out and do it. And so Dylan stepped up when Jake got hurt early in the year and just ran with the opportunity. Um, but he never stopped preparing. He never stopped kind of fighting. He never stopped trying to trying to get better. and he’s emerging as a as a frontline catcher because of all that that work and that he’s doing and the and the and the credibility that he’s gaining and the trust that he’s already got and I I love that for him. I love that for for any catcher that comes up and can get that immediately. Um, man, it’s pretty special. Sean on the right, just for both of you, you mentioned the first inning and and the at bats, there was a kind of a grind quality to it. I think for him was throwing 26 pitches. the vibe feel a little bit different and was it was that talked about that just it just kind of happened? I mean I don’t think it was different. I think you know I think when you get to these playoff games in general but then you get to elimination games like you’re on the edge of your seat or on the edge of the bench or you’re standing a little bit taller like he came and sto stood next to me every inning and there’s just a little extra urgency in the playoffs and there should be and you have to embrace it. You can’t run from it. You can’t be scared of it. You can’t deny it. um you got to overcome it a little bit and and when you know they’re going to make good defensive plays, they’re going to put the ball in play. Every hit does not mean the game is over. Every run doesn’t mean the game is over. And so, um we’re learning that because of the of the experience that we’re getting now, a second year in a row being in the playoffs. But, um it only gets better from here. And I’m I’m proud of our group for continuing to learn and grow and mature and and fight off some of the negative thoughts that come, you know, along the way. Um when when people doubt you or you start struggling a little bit, like you got to stay in there. Wel Perez didn’t have a hit this series till the biggest hit of the series. Um you know, Dylan not necessarily doing executing all of his at bats until we really needed it. Jav Bayz um towards the tail end of the season, you know, scuffling to find his way. gets a pullside homer in Fenway and all of a sudden takes off in the playoffs. Like, you know, we’re one good swing away from impact in games that matter the most because we’re one of the few teams still standing and and we need to we need to embrace that. Hey, Dylan. Um, how are you processing not only being able to come through with uh, you know, such an important home run, but also doing it in Northeast Ohio of all places? No, it’s obviously cool. Um, you know, I grew up coming to a few games up here and I I was always a longtime uh Guardians fan growing up. But, um, no, it was special. It was special every every time we come here. A lot of family, a lot of friends, you know, cheering on. And it it’s kind of cool cuz all of them are Guardians fans, but whenever we whenever we come into town, they’re they’re supporting me. But, um, ultimately, it it was it was very special, you know, kind of closing the door. Um, you know, winning this series out here. How many people did you have here tonight today? Today only four which is which is the low of the season. The low of the season. The most the most. And yet he was still the only player didn’t get booed. It’s amazing. Most was 16 this year. Who are they? My mom, dad. Um actually three. Three today. Mom, dad, and wife. Mom, dad, and wife. Julian. So when I saw you play with Erie and when I was covering the Patriots, and I thought you stood out back then, was there something in your development that’s helped you at this point? Was there a time you had to battle through adversity when you weren’t sure you made it this far? Yeah, so um you learn a lot about yourself going up or going through the ranks. Um for me, I spent I spent my fair share in double A. Um you know, I I hit well hit well until I got to double A. Struggled a little bit, learned a lot about myself as a hitter, and then um you know, you kind of turn the page, you you find a little bit success, and you kind of roll with it. And I feel like that’s that’s what I’ve been doing the past three or so years. Obviously, I scuffled last year when I came up, but um you know, able to get the opportunity this year and, you know, find that comfort level and it was able to, you know, let me um excel a little bit. I think you guys can both speak to this, but you know, in these type of elimination games these days, you don’t necessarily expect to see the starting pitches for very long. How big was it for you guys to set up the rest of the game for Jack to keep things calm and work into the middle innings there? Yeah. So, I I think I think what’s what’s interesting about these playoffs here, specifically the wild card series, it’s our second year in a row doing this, and it’s our second year in a row where TKO set us up for the next game. Now, we won the second game last year. Way easier to win a series when you win the second game. Um, when when the third game comes around, we’re still feeling the effects of how guys were able to how TK was able to get us deep into the game. And so, we didn’t have a guy that that that threw three days in a row. Um, and they did. And I think at some point it just catches up to you the intensity of the pitches, the the the magnitude of the moment and and we capitalized. And so it’s taken nothing away from them. It’s just it’s just the way these series are shaped. And so um for us, you know, having Tyler Holton be able to come out and get a a really big inning after a efficient yet longer outing yesterday than maybe we anticipated, that was huge. Um, Will Vest being a oneplus, something that we talk about all the time. Every reliever on our team needs to be a oneplus. And I told Finnegan, I bet when you when we traded for you, you knew we were going to throw you in the fifth and sixth inning. That was a that was the target. You know, things like that that this team embraces that makes my job really easy, but also sets us up to win the next day’s game. Like that is uh part of playoff baseball that’s a little underrated. Last one, Chris. I I wanted to ask you about some of those subtle um decisions that you made today with the lineup first of all which which forced the early decision from Stephen and also the decision to go to Finn again against what seemed like Rokio Quan top of their order. Yeah. Why what was because every out matters. I mean like Dylan was saying about momentum like that matters and when they flip the lineup I you know there’s there’s a lot of good top of the orders. I mean 30 out of 30 are pretty good right? But when you get Quan and you get it to whoever they put in the two Valero was was really good against us this series. Jos Ramirez, we circle that guy every time we play the Guardians. And so when you’re bridging the game, every inning matters to give our offense enough time to hopefully break through. And so the goal for bringing Finnegan in was just keep the game exactly where it was or improved on our side. And so going one plus was the goal for him. And we have our targets, we have our research, we know we want to do going into the game. If the game leads us that way, we go one way or the other. I had Holton up the previous inning in case something got a little bit crazy around the Menardo and Delau and those I mean all all the the lefties they had. So, um, every out matters every game. I I preach this to these guys all the time, but specifically in the playoffs, you know, things can turn in a in a in a dime and and so we weren’t going to allow the game in the middle part of the game, you know, cost us. Congratulations, guys. Thanks. Thank you. Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey.

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