The Tigers Just Choked So Badly Their Own Players Were Nearly In Tears Postgame

There’s a thousand different facts I could give you denoting the absolute monumental failure of the Detroit Tigers over the last month, coupled with the insane success of the Cleveland Guardians. But instead of doing so, since the season isn’t over yet, and theoretically, I guess the Tigers could still win the division, I’m instead going to hop into yesterday’s game when Detroit proceeded to blow a contest in a way that we’ve never seen before, courtesy of their more than likely back-to-back Sai Young ace, while their offense performed so badly that their own star hitter couldn’t even believe it postgame. This contest looked like it might be a different story early when the Tigers managed to get out to a one- nothing lead on back-to-back leadoff doubles. But in what has become a trend for them in recent weeks, they not only would strand the runner there without moving him, but then proceeded to do the same thing in the next inning, only this time with the bases loaded in one out. This meant, despite some considerable traffic early on, they only had a one- nothing lead through five. Though this did grow to two nothing when Riley Green crushed a line drive missile to right field in the sixth. However, I’m not sure if any fan of Detroit felt like this was ever going to be a victory, even at this stage. And they would be proven correct in the bottom of the sixth when a true nightmare occurred for their bowl club. First, Steven Quandled off with a wellplaced spun hit. Though, I will contend that Dylan Dingler had a chance to actually get him at first if school managed to clear out early. Still, a leadoff base runner with a pitcher the caliber of Carrick on the mount. That didn’t have to be the end of the world. But oh would it get so much worse when Anal Martinez laid down a bunch of his own which Scoo fielded and then inexplicably decided to try to hike it to first base despite having ample time to turn and throw not only allowing the batter to reach but pushing both runners up a base. From here it felt like a collapse was inevitable and this would further be confirmed when Jose Ramirez flipped a little ground ball to third base that went for an infield single pushing the tying run to third with still nobody out. At this point, all three hits in the inning had come with exit velocities of less than 66 mph. Things would only get worse when the lefty proceeded to fire a fast ball up and in on David Fry. Right after, seeing it be bunted off of his face. You could tell this rattled the hurler. Though, it does seem thankfully like David is going to be okay. George Blair would be sent in to pitch hit and shortly after would watch as Scubble fired a wild pitch away from Dingler, tying the game and pushing the winning run to second. Ramirez would then manage to rattle trick in route to inducing a block versus the next hitter after Vala struck out, allowing Gabriel Aras to push across the go-ahead run on a ground out. This made Scoo per OPA stats the first former Sai Young winner to have an error wild pitch and bulk all in the same inning. From here, it never really felt close again. Cleveland would tack on a couple more with a two-out hit in the seventh and Detroit could do nothing at the plate in response. Once the final out was recorded, it was official. Cleveland was in first place in the division, courtesy of them holding the tiebreaker. One final indecency the Detroit fan base would have to shoulder was the fact that after the contest, Green was asked about their 19 strikeouts at the plate. And this was his reaction. 19ks? That’s not going to get it done usually. 19ks for what? For you guys to Yeah. It almost looked like he was going to cry. And honestly, I get it. This is still a really young team and the weight of blowing what would be the largest division lead in major league history has to be near soul crushing. And unfortunately it could get even worse as they are currently only a couple games ahead of the Astros for the last wild card spot again because of tiebreakers. Meaning they could conceivably if they continue at their current pace miss out on the postseason entirely. All right everybody, if you made it this far, I appreciate you watching. And if you did, consider checking out any of these other videos on your screen right now for other content just like this. Also, if you ever see anything you’d like to see me detail in the video, feel free to reach out to my email, [email protected]. And if I end up using your idea, I’ll give you a shout out. Thanks for watching. Tougher yesterday.

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42 comments

  3. It's been a strange end to the season – the Tigers, Astros, and Mets have been competing for the biggest choke job. Usually we're "lucky" to only have one such team.

  4. nice to see the MLB's darling Skubal finally fuck up a little. sick of hearing how great this guy is. thank god this isn't about the Dodgers. we really were like 3/4 losses away from this kind of bullshit collapse

  6. I feel bad for the Tigers, but at the same time EVERYONE showed 0 hesitation to make fun of my M's last year when we blew a 10 game lead on the division. So I feel less bad than I probably should.

  9. Detroit is not my team, but I will NEVER point fingers at a team's rough patches. Every single team can get in a bad rut because baseball is so unforgiving.

  24. Joe Swell had 8333 plate appearances during his time in baseball and only struck out 114 times. Twice he had over 500 at bats and only struck out 3 times. This team strikes out more than that in battling practice.

  26. As a tigers fan, I honestly did not believe in the success early on. It's just not sustainable to have your best hitters only be platoon players with righty-lefty matchups. The best teams have their best players hitting in the biggest, high-leverage spots. Period. We just aren't that good, and we never really have been these past 2 years. We are still a couple years away from actually contending.

  29. wtf was Skubal doing with that bunt??? Was he trying to be cool? Was it a legitimate attempt? Didn't seem necessary. He could've just picked up the ball and got the out. Dumb play. Just stupid. Although pretty funny lol.

  33. The whole ownership/management has failed this team. Chris Illitch will never be a serious owner until he actually decides to invest in the team with quality players. Instead of that, you see some cheap trade deadline signings to make it seem like they’re doing something but nothing in reality. This team chickened out on trading away some of their farm system and are protecting them for some reason when it’s not even proven they’re going to be great. I’m not sure if you blame Chris or Scott Harris but I’m sure it’s a combination of both. This team was red hot going into the all star break and it’s inexcusable to have a collapse of this magnitude.

  42. Not knowing you had 19K's and a apathetic reaction is such a disgusting look on this coaching staff. Harris should be ashamed of what he did at the deadline. this collapse is unbelievable and heads need to roll in the front office- I doubt they will with illic at the helm but this is a blight

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