Detroit Loses 15 Inning Thriller in ALDS: Tigers 2025 Season Ends

Well, the Detroit Tigers season is officially over and it ends in maybe the most excruciating way possible. So, we’ll talk about that all today on Locked on Tigers. You are Locked on Tigers, your daily Detroit Tigers podcast, part of the Locked On podcast network. your team every day. What is up everybody? Welcome back to another edition of Locked On Tigers. I’m of course your host, Scott Bentley. Today is Saturday, August 11th, 2025. Thank you so much for making Lockdown Tigers your first listen. Every single day we are free and available wherever you get your podcasts, including YouTube. part of the Lockdown podcast network your team every single day. Today’s episode is brought to you by FanDuel. Right now, new customers can bet just $5. And if your bet wins, you’ll get $300 in bonus bets to use across the app. Download the app today. Happy Saturday, everybody. Not sure it’s very happy if you’re tuning into this as a Tigers fan. Um, yeah, don’t uh don’t have too many Saturday shows uh in in my 4 and a half years or whatever it is now at this program, but uh didn’t have uh I was just going to preview a game for half an hour. I’d rather do this. I’ I’d rather, you know, win or lose, talk about the result of the game afterwards. So that’s why we’re here on Saturday discussing a 3-2 loss at the hands of the Seattle Mariners in Seattle after 15 innings of excruciatingly painful baseball and the Tigers season is over. They’re eliminated from the ALDS. Obviously series was 3 to2 in favor of Seattle and the season is now over. Um, first thought, I I really don’t know if this episode is going to read like a actual analysis or if it’s just going to sound more like a think piece and I’m just going to ramble for half an hour. But we’ll see. I I the the slow bleed out that was a historic collapse in the AL Central leading to a 15 ining loss in a winner take all game in the ALDS is just the the most devastating and frustrating way that this season possibly could have ended. Um, I’m going to try my best to focus on just this game and this season for better or for worse. Like, this is an alltime baseball game that deserves at least one episode where it’s, you know, it’s the only focus. You know what I mean? I I I don’t want to like the season ends and we immediately just start looking ahead at 2026. But this game was a microcosm of the second half of the season, right? Uh, the offense stunk, the heart of the order was awful, trick Scooble dominated, and the bullpen was paper thin. Is that not how you can describe every single game from like the trade deadline on from last off season last winter through the deadline this year? The only I I don’t know like the the only bat I guess that you added was Glaver Torres and in the second half he struggled. I mean, we we’ll go through everybody. Riley Green, terrible at bats. Spencer Tolson, brutal at bats. Like, it it just feels like that is how you can describe every single game from the trade deadline to today. Uh it’s just it’s frustrating to see the offense struggle this much and know that in the last 12 months the only external player they’ve added was Gabber Torres that they’ve gone for no other help outside the organization to help the offense and I think that that reared its ugly head a lot in the postseason the bullpen I mean until they were pretty much forced to use Tommy Kanley Um, the Tigers had 14 innings of baseball pitched and they used three true relievers. Monto starter, Kater Montero, not Raphael, obviously starter. Jack Flity obviously a starter. Troy Melton will report to Tigers camp as a starter in a matter of, you know, four months. like th those are those are guys that you had to use in this moment or that were put in your bullpen late, but that is what management thinks of the bullpen that it was given in the second half of the season. They went 15 innings and didn’t use over half of it again in terms of just pure like true actual relievers. And all of that being said, they were a bad bounce away from playing in the ALCS and and being one of four teams remaining in all of baseball. I I am just begging for some aggressiveness from this front office. Man, I I am I’m dying for it. Th this game broke me a as and that’s that’s I’m talking about me because I know how I feel but I also know how thousands and thousands of fans in this wonderful beautiful city feel a and across the world. Again not we don’t want to discriminate discriminate against our our fans you know uh abroad if you will. So what went wrong? We we’ll start with the offense. Two runs in 15 innings. Glaver Torres, Riley Green, Spencer Tolson, Colt Keith combined for 0 for 23 with 10 strikeouts. There was two walks thrown in there. One by Glaver and then an intentional walk to Riley Green. Not even like an earned walk. And then Cole Keith got hit by a pitch. That is your two, three, four, and five hitter. It’s not just like, oh, your number three didn’t do well, or oh, your three and four struggled. That is two through five. That is half of your lineup. And on paper, the top half, like the the the better half of your lineup in a winner take all elimination game did not record a single effing hit, man. That that is mindboggling. And not only in a winner take all game, in a winner take all game that went 15 innings. They all had six played appearances, dog. Over 23. So we’ll talk about some decisions that AJ made in terms of bullpen management. We’ll talk about Terkub. We’ll talk about Tommy Kaneley. We we’ll talk about the pitchers that were used and whatever. I don’t give a flying flapping fudge. Dude, you’re two through five went 0 for effing 23. I really wish I could cuss right now. Golly, this is how incompetent and and honestly not even incompetent. Th this is h how how not respected this Tigers lineup was in this game. Okay, straight up not even respected at a professional like major league level in an elimination game. It’s win or go home. The Mariners game plan on the mound was quite literally no matter who’s up. Uh I don’t know guys, let’s just only throw sliders and just see what happens. They’re experimenting in an elimination game and it worked. Nobody outside of Carrie Carpenter could hit anybody. And they only threw sliders. They threw over a hundred sliders in this baseball game. That is unfathomable. This team hit fast balls really well for most of the year and and not a soul consistently hit secondary stuff. None of them. And that’s like over a larger sample size. That’s like Carpenter included, right? Like that’s that’s just everybody. And obviously he’s exempt from any criticism in this baseball game. Just awful, man. I I I and like I I hate to be the bearer of bad news here, okay? I I I really hate to to be the one to tell you this, but you don’t have that good of a lineup if nobody can hit nonfast balls. I I I I hate to break it to you. If a team if a a major league baseball team can literally just go on the mound and be like, “Well, let’s just throw anything that’s not a fast ball and win and and I I mean, the pitching dominated Detroit, right? The offense was terrible. The only reason this game went 15 was because of the Tigers pitching. I It’s not just sad or or frustrating or even disappointing. It it is it is pathetic that that is that is that is mindboggling to me that in the biggest game of the year that your opponent was able to just do that. Okay, let’s talk about some more individuals. Obviously, we already talked about two through five in the lineup card, but um we’ll talk about some more players. We’ll talk about the pitching side of things as well. Uh then we’ll kind of summarize this whole thing. Uh yeah, as a whole. We’ll do all of that right after this. First though, got to talk to you’all about our friends over at FanDuel. The NFL season is here. Now it’s you can kind of officially say that with baseball season ended here in Detroit. And FanDuel has an offer you won’t want to miss. Right now, new customers can bet just $5 and get 300 in bonus bets if you win. That’s right. You pick a bet, put down five bucks, and if it hits, you’ll unlock $300 in bonus bets to use across the app. There’s so many great features. I love how FanDuel gives me so many ways to play. I’ve built parlays, tried player props, and even followed the live lines during games. Makes watching football even more exciting when you’ve got a little something riding on the action. So whether you’re a casual fan or love diving into the stats, FanDuel makes the game day experience so much better. So what are you waiting for? or visit fanuel.com to download the FanDuel app today and get started. All right, everybody. Welcome back here. Segment two, locked on Tigers. I appreciate you all so much for tuning in even after the most devastating loss in recent Tigers memory. We’ll be back on Monday, I think. I don’t know. Maybe I’m I’m gonna just like sleep for a 100 hours and and I’ll see y’all later in the week. But um we we do not go anywhere in the off season. Um I I will be here still 5 days a week in your eyes and ears and um yeah, the show goes on as they say. I guess not the Tigers. That show is over for the 2025 calendar year. We’ve talked about the offense a lot. Um Parker Meadows deserves a heavy amount of criticism, man. um which which pains me because last year he was one of my favorite players. I was beyond excited for him this season and have just been on the front lines of, you know, giving him his flowers and and talking about the untapped potential and talking about how good I think he can be and how important he is to this team when he’s on 0 for five with three strikeouts. And that is that’s not like an outlier. provided nothing for this baseball team all postseason and all regular season at the plate. Just disgustingly poor performances in the batters box. Um the the one thing that bothered me more than any of the at bats cuz at this when I pretty much just expected him to not do much of anything at the plate, the lazy throw into the infield in the 15th inning drove me absolutely up a wall. man, what are we doing? I I that was just absolutely infuriating. So, we’ll have a long conversation about uh about him, the future of center field. Um obviously, Max Clark is like the the ultimate future of center field long term, but that doesn’t appear to be a 2026 solution. So, we’ll talk about that at points this off season, but I think it was really highlighted in this game that um you know, you’re going to have to do some soularching and and really find out what this team wants to do in center field next year. Um Tommy Canley obviously just not good. But I don’t know. I I I don’t have too much else to say. Like, yes, he he wasn’t effective. He hasn’t been effective in in four months, man. like you didn’t have any other options. You burned through again like three true starters and you don’t really have any other options in your bullpen. Like that you threw him in the 15th inning. It’s not like Hinch was chomping at the bid to get Tommy Canley out there. Um so yeah, I like he wasn’t good, but this was a ticking time bomb in all reality, man. Um this you can’t win if you can’t score. So, I I I really am not going to be too upset with with most of the pitchers in this game. Kyle Finnegan, I don’t think was particularly sharp. Um, really just hasn’t been the same since coming back from injury in terms of production. The Splitters have been hanging in the zone. They they hung in the zone in this game. And then Tyler Holton, a really disappointing kind of step back of a season. Had a good September. Can’t say that about too many Tigers. Um, but I mean, you look at that at bat, he he’s just throwing meatballs, man. Like, he’s just throwing cutters and sliders that aren’t breaking and are, you know, upper 80s over the heart of the plate. Like, I I don’t really know what the game plan was there. So, yeah, not great. Not great. Um, what went right in this ball game? Obviously, this conversation starts and ends with the man on the mound, TKO. six innings, two hits, one earned run, no walks, 13 strikeouts. He ends this season with a 174 erra in the postseason. Uh he set a major league record for strikeouts recorded in a winner take all postseason game. Also seven strikeouts in a row, a uh a postseason benchmark now for the Tigers. So yeah, he dominated and gave you literally everything he had. The the only real conversation point here is the decision to pull him. Um I I’ll be honest, I’m like not as passionate about this as a lot of other people are. Um I I would have left him in there for the seventh, don’t get me wrong. He he wasn’t at 100 pitches and was throwing 101 still like, you know, unless he literally went into the dugout and was like, I cannot go anymore. I I I would have thrown him back out there for sure. Um but at the same time, man, like Finnegan was going to come in eventually, okay? He’s one of the only two even remotely trustworthy relievers that this team has had for a month now. I I don’t think you were holding this Seattle offense to one run in in nine innings. I I I just unless Scoo was throwing nine. Like I I just I I don’t think that was really in the cards. And and even if you disagree with me on all that, that’s fine. I just the focus for me is on the offense. The pitching staff, even, you know, Holton and and Finnegan and and whoever you want to throw in there, included, Tommy Kanley, they gave up three total runs in 15 innings, right? I mean, before the game winner, it was two runs in 14 innings. Man, it’s almost two full games of only two runs allowed. This is just so much more a bats problem than it is for me like any of the pitching decisions that were made. Um yeah, Will Best two innings, one hit, no runs, four strikeouts, a zero RA in the postseason he ends with and was absolutely lights out in this game against his former team. Um I yeah I mean I think it’s pretty safe to say they will go into next year with him as one of if not the highest leverage reliever on the bullpen. He had a fantastic season and capped it off with a fantastic postseason. Troy Melton, one inning, one hit, one walk, one K. No runs allowed. Um I I wish he was at a point in the season where he was stretched out a little bit more because I would have thrown him for three or four innings. Um, but yeah, like you you he’s been used to being uh, you know, in shorter stints, just pitched a a decent amount of pitches in game one. You you weren’t going to, you know, empty the the clip with a young arm like that. So, I get it. And then, yeah, Kater Montero and Jack Flity um, you know, combined for four innings of shut out baseball between the two of them. I I don’t think either was particularly sharp. I thought Monontto was kind of flirting with danger there. A lot of balls over the heart of the plate and Flity was the opposite. Flity walked three guys in in one inning. Um and and you know almost blew the game there, but tightropped his way out of danger. A lot of double plays in extra innings. Saved the Tigers. Good defense in this game. And then obviously the only saving grace for the Tigers offensively was Carrie Carpenter. Four for five with two walks. Man, that that he got on base six times in a 15 ining game. had the only two RBI. Obviously, it was a home run. And and you know, it’s funny. I talked earlier about the, you know, how Seattle was just throwing sliders pretty much the whole game. Like the only non-slider they threw in even a remotely high lever situation was a lefty lefty fast ball to Carrie Carpenter and he deposited that into the right field bleachers. So, um, yeah, like we we’ll talk about him in the coming weeks, um, when when we do our season reviews, but this was an all-time performance in an all-time baseball game, and history will look upon him fondly. uh him and Scooble will have very little criticism uh if if any at all on their hands when um when the baseball historians, you know, look back at this incredible baseball game 20, 50, 100 years from now. Um they they’ll look at those two guys as, you know, having done everything they could for the Tigers. And I will always appreciate that about the two of them. So, um, and I’m I’m glad he was leading off that like, you know, leadoff hitter has more at bats than anybody on the team. So, it’s about all you can ask for. All right, let’s talk stuff. We’ll put a bow on this and uh put a bow on the ear. Okay, we’ll do that right after this. First though, got to talk to you’all about our friends over at Rouette and what is probably the best timed ad of all time. Guys, you’ve probably heard of Viagra or Seialis. You’ve maybe even tried them. But if you’re looking for something beyond the usual pill, it’s time to meet Rouiet Golong. That’s exactly where Ruette Golong comes in. This isn’t just another ED pill. It’s a total gamecher for confidence. Golong combines two doctor trusted medications in one dualaction formula so you can get hard and go the distance. The effects last up to 36 hours that is confidence all day, all night, and even into the next day. The process is simple. 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And then, you know, two months later or whatever it was, I I think that’s a fair ball. I think it it bounces behind the plate. It also pretty clearly moves forward. And I think Dingler catches it in fair territory. I I I have no clue how that was a foul ball either. So, um, yeah, you played a historic game that will be talked about, uh, forever in in baseball history. Really, like this is this is up there with some of the the the most famous post like non World Series postseason games that that are talked about on a consistent basis that we’ve ever seen, man. And and you’re a part of it. And I guess I don’t know, maybe that’s cool, but I being on the losing side of that really blows. It really sucks. Um I I makes it worse, I dare I say. I I now anytime you know anybody brings up this game, and I’m sure it will be brought up a lot, um you know, you’re on you’re on the losing side of it. That stings like a like a mofo. tip of the cap to the M’s, man. Uh I I know some people don’t like doing that after, you know, losses like that. I know we’re all like supposed to be angry with them or whatever. Um I I think this is a major tip of the cap to to the Mariners. Uh if you would have told me going into this series that Detroit would win two nonschoolable starts, I would have guaranteed you the series. I I would have put my mortgage. I’m not a homeowner, so not actually. But I I I would have put my entire bank account on on the Tigers winning the series, if not sweeping. Not only do they not do that, but they they they come out on top and they win two games in which Terrick Scuba started. Obviously, not his doing, but um yeah, uh they they fan base is dying for a winner. They haven’t been there in a really really long time. They have a great fan base. The crowd was awesome in that game. Made the environment what it was. Um, shout out to Tyen Gonzalez who who does a great job over at uh Lockdown Mariners. Good dude. Wishing uh him and and you know, Seattle the best. And um yeah, hopefully the the Blue Jays series is a fun one. I’ll be watching that one through tears. So, Godspeed. And now we enter the off season. Um, Terk Scuba trade talks will will litter the the winter months on I’m sure this program and in national media. You clearly need some offensive upgrades, man. Uh the the thing that this postseason really highlighted to me is I I know some people are talking about like just the the offense and the production as a whole and I I get that but to me it’s a lot more specific um than just you know strictly whatever batting average OPS or amount of you know hits whatever you know metric you want to use. The thing that that really highlighted itself to me here is is this offensive group just blatantly does not follow or or step in line with the organization’s mindset to offensive approach. the dominate the strike zone, we’re not gonna strike out and we’re gonna draw our walks thing is just the opposite of what I mean even Carrie Carpenter included in this like what one through nine in this lineup don’t do none of these guys draw walks at an extremely high clip and all of them strike out at an astronomically high clip. The Tigers just played eight playoff games and were absolute strikeout machines that barely drew any walks for all eight games. I I So, what do you do offensively? This is just I mean, love or hate Scott Harris, we’ll have plenty of conversations about him in the offseason and as well. I’ve had my frustrations with him certainly, but he’s also done a handful of things right. Th this is a weird instance where it’s like who who is even like they’re not playing how the the front office wants them to play. who who’s and I guess it’s his job to get the personnel that um you know fits that mold but but nobody in this group does love Carrie Carpenter to death has an OBP under 300 this year man and that you know Riley Green Spencer Tolson Cole Keith like all those guys I mean you have a lot of holes in the lineup you have a lot of holes defensively in the field uh Glaver’s a free agent. Scooble contract extensions obviously um trades or or nothing or you just walk into to 2026 with TK again knowing that it’s going to be the last series on the team. Um do we see any prospects in 2026? What does free agency look like for Detroit? Uh the rotation outside of school is a question mark, right? like, you know, is Melton going to be an everyday starter next year or a, you know, every uh a full season rotational piece? Obviously, he’s not going to pitch 162 games. Jack Flity has an option. Um, the bullpen I I’ve criticized so much over the last three months. Finnegan’s a free agent. They need a lot of help back there, man. And for the love of everything, can we get someone who throws hard and gets swing and miss? What a joke, dude. that that is completely worthy of criticism by Harris in the front office. This front office is like allergic to velocity in 2025. What are you doing? It’s like a basketball team that’s like, “No, we’re not going to shoot threes.” Okay, cool, dude. Yeah, certainly that’s not what 29 of their teams are doing. Just awful. And then ultimately, obviously, what does 2026 look like? all stuff that we’ll talk about this off seasonason. I want to end with a thank you. I know it’s cheesy and and corny or whatever, but that this is talking about this show specifically, man. This is a dream come true. Every time I I get in front of a microphone, um I I I will never ever take for granted the fact that people we all have a limited amount of time on the planet Earth, right? It it’s finite. And the fact that anybody chooses to listen to me yap and ramble and overexlain and not get to the point very quickly and probably talk for, you know, minutes more than I should on a topic every single day is just the honor of a lifetime. Man, I I I owe every single person who who has ever tuned in to this show quite literally my life. like this is all I’ve ever been passionate about. You know, te teachers were um frustrated with me growing up. I I had plenty of conversations with my parents growing up who are nothing but unbelievably supportive of this. Both of them have been my entire life. But, uh you know, that doesn’t mean it was always easy. And that doesn’t mean there weren’t, you know, questions when I was in school and growing up about, you know, where where this possibly could take me and what, you know, my adulthood was going to look like and whatever. I So I I owe everybody that’s ever tuned into this my life legitimately. And and you all allow me to do this every single day. Um it’s been over four years now. Four and a half. Yeah. Next year we’ll be going on five. Um, so so thank you so much for another just fantastic season in terms of the product of Locked On Tigers and and whether you not the product the the listenership for Locked On Tigers, whether you you hate me and you you tune in and and you think, “Wow, how does anybody listen to this, you know, yapper?” uh or you listen because you enjoy the show. I I just I I sincerely thank you for ever listening to to even a second of this show. You are no matter your opinion of the product included in that as well. And like I said, we’ll be here for the off season. Um I I saw some people that were like, “Hey, I’m new here. Does this show stop when the Tigers stop?” Absolutely not. Um we we And not only that, we’re we’re here five a week still, man. I’m not going nowhere. Um, we I we go to three days a week. I believe this year it’s at the end of December, toward the end of December, but even then we’re at three days a week. We’ll be Monday, Wednesday, Friday, the end of December through January, and then February when pitchers and catchers report again. We’re back to five and and we do it all again. So, um, again, thank you so much to everyone who has listened to this show. you you have been a part of of changing my life forever over these last four almost five years and I I owe you everything for tuning in. I I I just love this team. I I love this team. I love this city and and every single player regardless of how frustrating they were to watch that that has ever worn an old English D. I I has a piece of my heart, man. I this has been my biggest passion since I had a conscience. Um conscience I I’ve for as long as I can remember I’ve always just wanted to talk ball with people. It’s all I’ve I’ve ever wanted to do. And um the fact that I get to do this every day, it it it’s like I said a a dream come true. And that’s just always what I want to do. That’s what I want the show to feel like is just you’re chopping it up with um with one of your friends and and just you’re just talking ball and the off season is here so let’s talk some ball. Thanks for making Lockdown Tigers your first listen every single day. Shout out to the everydayers that do tune in every day. This is an unbelievably painful loss that will sting for a long time. Um, the best thing we can hope for is that it lights some urgency and and kind of highlights some frustrations and gives us a more aggressive off season than we’ve seen in in the Scott Harris era. But, uh, we’ll be here every day to talk about it. Okay, thank you so much. 2025 season in the books. Peace and love. Going to therapy is dope. And I’ll catch youall on Monday, baby. Go Tigers.

Today we discuss the Detroit Tigers 3-2 loss in 15 innings to the Seattle Mariners in Game 5 of the 2025 ALDS. We talk Tarik Skubal, Kerry Carpenter, Riley Greene, and more!

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25 comments

  2. Hey Scott, I really appreciate everything you have done for this Tigers family. I love everything you’ve done for the community and just the group of fans you’ve accumulated over the years. I’ve loved tuning in to every single episode of yours. Really want you to know you’re appreciated bro🙏🙏

  4. Scotty, actually most of the season was excruciatingly painful.. I'm just glad its over.. The lesson here, again, for those would be team builders and managers, is you can't build and manage simply based on analytics. Ask Billy Bean who got the A's into the playoffs like 8 years in a row building a team on computer analytics and never won a championship. If your going to take Skubal out at the same pitch count every game, or only pitch to a right hand batter with a right hand pitcher, then why not just send a machine out there to do it for you and save the millions of dollars your paying him to pitch.
    Scott you keep mentioning the trade deadline like it was some magic marker for the team in terms of their success or failure. They just did not have all the horses they needed putting out another 30 million dollars to improve this team would have still left a lot of holes, in my opinion. Seattle did not exactly blow the Tigers away with their acquisitions and should they lose in the ALCS they would have spent a lot of money for nothing. So maybe Tiger's management isn't that dumb after all.
    There is something fundamentally wrong with how teams are built, kept together and managed these days. Until those things improve I don't see the quality of play improving for anyone. I'll say it again, Skubal is not Jack Morris, Oral Hershiser , or Baum Gardner. Mainly perhaps because they don't allow him to be. Or perhaps the players union now controls how many pitches a pitcher can throw. (and certainly no more than one between the legs to first base per year).
    Baseball in general now is very disappointing, not just this team. Kudos for the effort in the post season, but too little too late and really unprofessional and lack of respect for the game, much of the year. Too little too early might be the mantra for this team.

  5. Tarik Skubal’s innings split probably led to AJ’s decision to pull him after 6 innings.
    According to Baseball Savant, Tarik’s innings split is as follows:

    1st inning ERA = 1.45
    2rd = 3.19
    3rd = 0.87
    4th = 1.19
    5th = 3.64
    6th = 1.80
    7th = 4.91

    Tarik falls off after 6 innings. That is what his season numbers show. You can’t argue with the numbers till you are red in the face.

  6. I haven't watched them since the Leyland days which was even more frustrating because those teams had some really good players. Way above this team and they still found ways to lose. Sorry guys another 10 year break is in order for me. I thought this team was special or worth watching but baseball continues to deteriote overall.. there just does not seem to be any respect for the game itself. We might as well have programmed AI players and roll the dice to see who actually wins. Okay sorry my last comments for the year and probably for a long time.
    Scott I appreciate your passion and your fan-aticsm but you keep this up and your going to have an ulser.. after all, its been 41 years since they won a W.S. and it doesn't look like its going to happen again anytime soon. It's just too expensive and hard to keep a team together anymore. And as already mentioned, you can't build a championship team from computer analytics.

  9. I've been checking in with the podcast throughout the season. The exasperation you expressed in this episode matched my own, but you actually made me smile and laugh at the ineptitude of the hitting. Just coming here to YouTube to say THANK YOU!

  13. We need a Cecil fielder ,cabbra in the line up to put fear into pitchers, and a dangerous designated hitter and be more aggressive stealing bases, and another starter to add to skubal,mize , and build a unstoppable bullpen,, final analysis,we will be serious contenders, not just for the division, but a trip to the alcs making the playoffs won be a problem,we have that part down pat, with this young team and torkenson getting better and better and the kids we have in the 5 best minor system in MLB we will be contenders for a long time great job kids for the second straight year,!!!!!!! We will be Oct ready again next year, but more Fundamentally prepared,!!!!!!!!

  14. To play devil's advocate, the entire line-up going from best in baseball first half to 0-7 with 5 strikeouts not being all that surprising sounds like a game-to-game management and approach issue, and not a slight on ownership.

  16. Skubal not pitching the 7th possibly cost the tigers season, clearly Skubal pulled himself from the game, thats why he had his theatrical outburst after inning 6- he knew he was done. Skubal not being signed made this a business decision not a baseball game decision. Aso, if Tiger hitting coaches are not replaced then Hinch is a candy ass manager who just wants everybody happy while they collect millions. Tigers went into a team hitting slump the last 80 games and no changes to mechanics occurred- and I look closely for changes. Infact I noticed one change and it was colt keith going back to his signature pumping of the bat before swinging- something he did when he batted 140 early in year and almost got sent down.

  18. Listening to Sully's take on this game (Locked on MLB of course) put this game in a historic perspective and made me feel about this game in a better light. Harping on individual performances is accurate, but doesn't help much. Seattle didn't produce much either. It was a glorious grind and we fell on the short end. Sad nonetheless.

  21. I listen to you EVERYDAY! I have to admit the last few weeks it was hard to tune in during the days of doom. But I've never wavered and listened anyway. And here I am and there you are. I can't wait to those shows in November/December.

  23. I really don't know where the Tigers go from here. This core isn't good enough to win a WS, Skubal gone in a year, and they won't be aggresive in FA. Just pray Mcgongile and Clark turn into studs i guess.

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