Detroit Tigers vs Seattle Mariners ALDS Recap: Every Pitch Matters In This Series

Detroit Tigers vs Seattle Mariners ALDS Recap: Every Pitch Matters In This Series

AJ, thoughts on the 1-1 series heading to Detroit here? Well, Detroit had a chance to really take a strangle hold with scubable pitching last night and the Mariners, listen, Luis Castillo did an amazing job. These have been two awesome games. If you haven’t watched these two games, now granted, if you like offense, you’re not going to see a lot of that. But if you like pitching and a couple and some clutch hitting and and a lot of strategy, these are the games for you because there is like who should they bring in, when should they take the starter out, who should they pinch hit for, should they bunt, should they run, what should they do? And the game on Saturday went extra innings and the Tigers won three to two and with a clutch hit from Zack McKinstry after a leadoff walk and a wild pitch and then last night Palano with the two homers off Scooble. Spencer Tolson with a huge base hit and and we can debate pitch calling all day long. Kratzy as you know and then all of a sudden uh the Ken Julio shows up back-to-back doubles of off Kyle Finnegan, a guy who has now pitched in four or five days and the Mariners beat the Tigers 3 to2 and if you didn’t see the guy crying in the stands that we showed on Fox, it was incredible. The guy guy in a bananas hat because it was the first win for the Mariners in Seattle since 2001. 2001 since they won a home playoff game and the Seahawks had just lost and late in the game. So, they were already all riled up. They’re facing school and then they win 3 to2. There’s a lot of emotions in Seattle and the crowd there has been awesome. So, I hope Detroit matches that crowd. I saw a bunch of people online saying these are boring games because there’s not a lot of offense. Why would I want to even watch this series? This is the reason these games are so close. It hinges on one pitch. It hinges on your pitch selection. It hinges on the fact that you know how to get a guy out because both these offenses are kind of struggling minus Julio and Cal. But every pitch w could change the trajectory of both these teams seasons. I think the Mariners are the better team. I think the Tigers had their chance and I think it swung back in the favor of the Mariners. Oh, wait. except the Mariners now have to go as as AJ says east of Spokane. So, we’ll see how they play. I think they still have the advantage, but they’re out of their friendly confines. And I have no idea why that guy was crying. That’s true though. It’s It’s two weeks too for the Tigers and now they’re back home. What? AJ, you’re you’re going to defend 11 11 straight. No, the guy Listen, it was awesome, man. The guy had Yeah, I like it. He’s having a moment. All right. He was having a moment. You had a moment where you just Come on. Yeah. I mean, don’t not about a game. I mean, come on. That was 24 years ago. How old was that guy? How old was that guy? 11. I don’t know how old he was, but it was awesome. It was an awesome shot by our director, Mitch Rigan. So, way to go camera guys and Mitch, for nailing that shot. Also, careful. And I’ll tell you why. And then you’ll go, “Oh, what if, for example, there’s someone close and he lost them and he’s thinking they would be loving this moment right now.” Just throwing that those kind of ideas out there because that’s what happens so often with other teams that hadn’t say won a World Series in forever and you have emotions and tears and often they’re connected to lifetime memory, experience, family, friends, situations. Just throwing that out there. Yes, that’s a good one. That’s a good one. Sure. Anyway, and by the way, no, but by the way, listen. I don’t know what’s going to happen in this series, but now it gets really interesting because the Mariners are so much better at home than they are on the road and they come to Detroit where they did sweep the Tigers right before the All-Star break, but it was a different team. They get Flareity, who pitched really well in the wild card series. As we know, the bullpens get a day of rest. And then Logan Gilbert, everyone was shocked he didn’t pitch game one or two. Nobody really got a reason why. It was just kind of we want Castillo and Kirby to pitch one and two. There wasn’t really any reason given other than, oh, we like Logan Gilbert in game three. So, the Mariners have been terrible on the road. As we know, they were the best home record, I think, in baseball this year in the American League. So, I don’t know what’s going to happen, but it’s just it’s intriguing as hell. These games are tight because neither one of these teams has really hit the ball very well. So much, like I said, so much strategy with these two managers. When are they bringing in? First game, the Carrie Carpenter home run. Should he have brought in Gabe Spire to pitch to him instead of letting Kirby face him for the third time who Carrie Carpenter owns? He’s now five for 11 with five homers. That’s it. He’s 5 for 11 with five homers. no singles, no doubles, no triples, just he just hits homers off of him and they let him pitch to him and he hit the home run and then the bullpen usage and the way it went down. I mean, if you talk to the people in the media around those games, they were like, man, you can second guess everything in these series. It’s awesome. And it has been. It’s been awesome. Yeah, it’s not the 13 to7 or whatever the Yankees Blue Jays game was yesterday, but at least they’ve been close games and there’s a lot to talk about. What about Brian Woo not being involved here for this series? the pectoral inflammation since our last show is when we learned that he’s officially not part of this series. To me, it makes game three even more critical for the Mariners. Is Bryce Miller rumored to be Yes, he’s scheduled. He’s scheduled to start in game four. Now, how long will he go? It all depends on game three, I think. But the these managers are riding their bullpens hard other than Scooble. But like the ultimate, we talk about X factors. The ultimate wild card is Scooble because Hinch knows that he can get seven innings like he did last night. And listen, people that say, “Oh, Scubble didn’t pitch.” Well, he went seven innings, gave up two solo homers, punched out, I think, nine, I think, in seven innings, one walk. That that’s usually pretty good. That’s usually really good against a team that won their division at home that it’s been way better at home. So, Scooble pitched really well. He made two mistakes other than that. And then Finnegan came in and gave the two doubles. But, man, I mean, listen, I don’t know what I’m we’re going to get out of Logan Gilbert, but it’s going to be fascinating to watch. And then Bryce Miller when he starts he might go what one time through maybe and then they’re going to run to their bullpen which has been great. So we’ll see how it goes. But Jack Flity tomorrow and then Casey Mai I mean if you look on on paper you’re like man I think maybe the Tigers have a little bit of an advantage because they’re at home but he could have said that about game two and the Tigers lost a school game with a chase chance to really put their their foot on the the Mariners throat and put them away maybe but they didn’t do it. FTM let’s talk about superpower. Eric Kratz is a proud superpower customer and he’s going to give us more of the personal experience. But I’ll just start it with this. 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I mean, Brian Woo was their best starting pitcher and he was durable and going deep into games for them. It’s a massive loss for this team. whether it’s in the division series or the next round, it is going to burn them because they had a big three and a halfish. I guess you could put Castillo in there. He looked really good uh in game two, but man, you’re so much more dangerous if you’re the Mariners if you have a guy who’s a legit number one for the entire 2025 season in your rotation. I mean, you would think Logan Gilbert’s a legit number one, too. He just hasn’t been this year. To me, if if AJ’s right and it’s going to be bull down to the bullpens, Mariners have the advantage. I get it. The Mariners have gotten, you know, their bullpen got cooked last night because Castillo went four and a third or four and two/3. And but the Tigers have been using their bullpen, but this is where the wild card and the the layoff comes into play. The Tigers have been playing, their bullpen has been pitching every single day. And to me, it’s going to catch up to them somewhere. And if it becomes two two teams that are playing bullpen games, I think it’s advantage Mariners. And just want to shout out the other historic part here. Yeah. I mean, Seattle hadn’t even uh won a postseason game at home like we talked about at the top there. So, that’s special. I think Julio Rodriguez being the big big long-term money guy for them, showing up big with some clutch knocks in the first two games is huge. So, some shout outs there. And then one other thing I started to mention, AJ, the Tigers, I looked up, they hadn’t been home in two weeks. I don’t know how that matters. Yeah, such a long time. They’re probably happy they get to change underwear. It was pretty funny. Hinch yesterday in his office and we’re like, “Oh, you get to go home.” And they didn’t actually take the red eyee home. They took their they spent the night and are flying. I think they get home maybe four or five o’clock this afternoon. So, the Mariners took the red eye and got here early this morning and the Tigers chose to spend another night on the road. If I was on those Tigers teams, I would have been like, “Get me the heck home so I can sleep in my own bed. I don’t want to sleep in another hotel.” But they chose to do it the way they do it. Teams have all these sleep schedules and all that stuff. And oh man, it’s just it’s it’s fascinating how this is going to go. Does Gab Spire have to face Carrie Carpenter now in those kind of moments? Like if you’re mid game and you’re thinking about it and it’s a one or two run game and there’s too much pressure, you have to just bring him in as the kryptonite. Him and him and Caleb Ferguson have to face that pocket of Riley Green and Carrie Carpenter. Okay. Yeah, that to me was the big change from game one to game two. Right. If there’s one thing a manager can can impact, it’s that. And congrats. The move was made by Dan Wilson. It’s like if I get beat this time around, okay, but I’m not going to get beat with the same exact strategy because you may not ever get to another at bat. Like you like I get it. You might want to try to get by him. And Carrie Carpenter’s shown that I get it. He he caught him that time, but until he can beat Spire or Ferguson, can’t can’t let it can’t let it happen. You got that’s where you got to go to. So you’re going to live and die on that that

AJ Pierzynski, Erik Kratz, and Scott Braun break down a tight, 1–1 Tigers–Mariners ALDS headed to Detroit—two low-scoring classics with elite pitching, strategy calls every inning, and just enough clutch hits to flip games. The crew hits Luis Castillo’s gem vs Tarik Skubal (two solo shots, 9 K), Jorge Polanco’s two-HR night, and back-to-back doubles from Cal Raleigh and Julio Rodríguez, plus the bullpen chess match (Finnegan usage, why Spire/Ferguson vs Kerry Carpenter matters). They dig into Seattle’s road woes, the emotional Seattle crowd finally getting a home playoff win, Brian Woo’s absence and what it means for Logan Gilbert and Bryce Miller, and how Jack Flaherty vs Casey Mize could swing momentum.

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