Seattle Mariners vs Detroit Tigers | Full Game | MLB playoffs 2025 Quarter-finals | Game 4
F1 presented by Booking.com. They are trying to will their home team to a victory at Com Park today. But it’s the Seattle Mariners who are one step away from a spot in the postseason that they have not seen in 24 years. their last LCS in 2001. A win today sends them there. The Tigers with their backs against the wall facing elimination. Adam, Adam, and AJ. Tom Verduchi is with us today as well. Got a lot from AJ Persinski on Cal Raleigh, the excellent catcher, switch hitter with 60 home runs. But I want to hear what the pitcher perspective is on what you’ve seen from Cal Raleigh in this set. Well, we know he’s a great player. 60 home runs, 125 RBI’s. I think the offense gets talked about more than defense. Even though he was a platinum glove winner last year, he’s probably going to be a gold glove win winner again this year. But I watched him yesterday from a pitcher standpoint. Logan Gilbert is not an easy task. Throwing hard, bouncing sliders, bouncing that nasty split, going down, keeping it in front and controlling his pitchers. Every now and then he would go out there and calm them down. But yesterday, fast ball up and away at Com Park. Are you kidding me? Go left center. Oppo Taco crazy power. He’s the complete player and he’s probably going to be this year’s well arguably MVP this year. Cal Rally this this series 6 for13 a homer and three RBI’s but look at the LPS over,200. This guy is amazing. He has had a fantastic series so far and he’s hoping to get the Mariners to the LCS. Meanwhile, the Detroit Tigers here they are. This is it. They’ve won an elimination game on the road already in this postseason. Game three at Cleveland. Casey Mai is going to get the ball today, but the offense needs to step up. We just haven’t seen it consistently yet. You’re you’re right. They need to do what they did in game three at Cleveland in the wild card series, and that’s score some runs. They scored six in that game, five late, but they got the win. And today, they need to do the same thing. The offense, as I said earlier, has been downright offensive this series for the Tigers. 159 with runners in scoring position, 35 strikeouts in three games. That’s not going to get it done. 84 at bat since they’ve hit one homer. They have to hit homers cuz they don’t string a lot of hits together. Can they do that against Bryce Miller? Guy who in their history they have zero runs off of. So it is a tall task for these Tigers. They feel confident. They were excited. We’ll see what happens. Riley Green, Carrie Carpenter, Spencel Torerson, it’s your time to shine, boys. This is the time for Detroit. They need to win to keep their season alive. While the Mariners are one win away from their first league championship series appearance since 2001. They won the division finally. Now they have a chance to do something they haven’t done in a long time. Meanwhile, the Tigers, can they do it again? Can they stave off elimination and keep their season going? Game four is next. Game one in Seattle, it was down to the wire. Carpenter and McKinstry provided the offense in an 11 in thriller. Jorge Palanco in game two got the best of TK Scubble twice and Julio Rodriguez delivered the game-winning blow late and then in game three last night Logan Gilbert outstanding the Mariners offense their best performance of the series and a 2-1 Seattle lead in this American League Division series on a beautiful afternoon in Detroit, Michigan. 61° barely a cloud in the sky and we are set to go for playoff baseball as we take a look at today’s same game parlay. It’s available now on FanDuel. It is a fascinating pitching matchup as well with a couple of youngsters taking the ball, including a former number one pick for the Detroit Tigers. For more, here’s Tom Buchcci. Well, thanks Adam. It was one year three days ago that Tigers manager AJ Hinch told Casey Mai he was not on the postseason roster. Today, he asks him to save their season. Mai used that slight to reinvent himself. a higher arm angle, scrapped his curveball, went to a second slider, made the All-Star team, and last week his first postseason start, and Hitch pulled him from that game in the third inning. Today, Mai hopes to join Steven Strawber as the only number one overall picks to win a postseason elimination game. Compared to last week and the stakes this high, the leash could be even shorter. Adam, what a moment for this young man out of the state of Alabama. He gets the opportunity today in his second career playoff start. Yeah, he’s got great stuff. See 28 starts this year, 387 RA, 149 innings. He’s not a strikeout pitcher per se, but he does have the stuff to run it up there. He’ll touch 98 today. He’s got a really good splitter. He works off of that and a couple of good curve balls, slider, slur. It’s not really a slur. It goes straight up and down. I have no idea why they call it a slur, but it’s pretty good. He knows how to use all these pitches, too. He’s a complete pitcher. This is the lineup that he will face. Both lineups exactly the same as what we saw in game three. The Mariners got some help for their big guns in the middle. Raleigh obviously had a great game, but they got some help from the supporting cast, which was three for 44 outside of Raleigh, Rodriguez, and Palano in the first two games. That group combined for six hits and two home runs. JP Crawford and Aheno Suarez each with blast here in Detroit last night. No delay today. Nearly a three-hour delay before game three. Today we could not ask for a better afternoon of weather for game four. Randy Rosarena leads things off against KC M. And away we go. Strike one. Three hits in the series for a Rose Arena on one bounce. Nice snare by McKinstry at third and he throws out a Rose Arena for the first down. Same Tigers defense as we saw yesterday, but AJ Hinch made sure to point out they have to be fundamentally better. That play that Zack McKinstry let through, went to home plate, Dingler didn’t play it cleanly, allowed a run to score. They have to be sharper today. AJ Hinch said they they do and that was one play that c it did cost him a run, but more importantly, it took a guy from first to second, took away the double play. It was just an unfundamental play. That is something the Tigers have actually done really well this year. They don’t have a lot of range in defense, but when they get to it, they usually catch it and make the play. Made two errors yesterday. Carpenter had that fly ball that he missed as well. Here is Raleigh takes upstairs to even the counter to ball and a strike. had that blast to left field where Jameson Turner, the fan who had that dump here 61 shirt on. He was there to catch it on a bounce. Raleigh was able to meet with Jame Turner after the game. There he is in that same spot. He’s got the glove ready to go in the 62 shirt on. But pretty cool that he got an opportunity to meet with Cal yesterday after the game. He signed a bat for him, got the ball as well, and the iconic tweet from the Mariners social media staff. Dumped here. What a cool moment, but a moment that really more often than not, you only get in baseball. That was awesome. One-two pitch to Raleigh is outside to even the count at two and two. Something to look for here, Weno, for me, for my eyes, he didn’t get a lot of swing and miss. And the Mariners will swing and miss, but with two strikes, he doesn’t do a great job of putting hitters away. Can he get these Mariner hitters out once he gets ahead of them? Can he get some whiffs? Yeah, I like what he did with the first pitch. Started him off with a split. Cal came out ready to rock, ready to rock a big swing on the first pitch, but he he was looking for the dog and got the cat. Sometimes when you’re not a swing and miss pitcher, you got to pitch a little backwards. We may see that today. Home with a two- two delivery. Tried to paint the corner and it’s three and two. Rodriguez waits on deck having a strong series as well. Went 0 for five last night. Here’s the payoff. Breaking ball is lifted down the right field line. Carpenter giving it Chase and Torlson as well. And that will fall between them. Foul and Raleigh gets new life. Chris Gion is behind home plate today for our six-man umpiring crew. Worked two World Series in his career. Same with the crew chief Alan Porter who’s over at first now. Nate Tomlinson his playoff debut in this series. Tossi his first division series. Rehack the veteran his fifth playoff series. Tom Payne the most veteran with his eighth career playoff series. Speaking of eight, eighth pitch to Raleigh is waved on and miss with that splitter. Two up and two down for Casey Mai. This is what I feel like he has to do. Like you said, pitching backwards. There’s the fork ball. Cal Raleigh 3-2. That’s a really good one. It starts as a strike and just dives at the end. But that’s what Casey Me is going to have to do because he’s really a two- pitch guy. Yes, he throws some sliders to righties, but he is fast ball split. He has to command it and he has to get swing and miss. Rodriguez fouls back a slider. four hits, including a home run. Three driven in in the first two games in Seattle. And 0 for five last night, but a lot of support from the rest of the crew for Seattle yesterday. One and one. Check swing foul and it’s one and two on Julio Rodriguez. A chance for Casey Mai to get through this tough top of the order unscathed. I suspect that’s how we’ll see them pitch Julio today. Off in for show to get him feeling him inside and then that slider split away. One, two. 28 years old from Springville, Alabama. The number one pick in 2018. Made his major league debut a couple of years after that. 30 starts in 2021. But then Tommy John surgery early in 2022. Missed the rest of that year and all of 2023. 20 starts last year, a strong year this year as an all-star. And he gets Rodriguez on the splitter to just foul tip in. Man, that was close. And Rodriguez, that is a tough pitch and a good job to stay alive. He’s fouled away four pitches in this at bat. It’s perfectly executed, too. But that was what they did so well yesterday on all those great pitches early on. They fouled him off. They got another pitch. AJ Hinch said he was ready to tear his hair out with some of the at bats that Jack Flity had to deal with, including that Josh Naylor at bat that went 11 pitches. All those foul balls once again today. Seven foul balls to the last two hitters. Rodriguez lifts one out towards left center field. Angling over is Riley Green. He’s got it to finish off a one two three Casey M frame. And the Detroit Tiger offense trying to find some traction comes up next. Tigers coming to bat in the bottom of the first against Bryce Miller. It is the exact same lineup we saw in game three. A lot of strikeouts, better than 11 per game in the postseason. About one out of every three played appearances has led to a strikeout for Detroit. They have to clean that up today. They do. And this is against a guy Bryce Miller. They have had zero success against 19 innings, zero runs. His stats this year, his numbers are not good. And they and AJ Henchin and these Tigers, they think he’s vulnerable cuz his VO’s a little bit down, his movement patterns down, but again, forcing fast ball split. They got to get on his fast ball and they got to do something they haven’t done in the history of the Tigers, and that’s score some runs against Bryce Miller. 19 innings pitched in three starts against Detroit. No runs allowed, but again, those were the last two years, not this season. This year it’s been a little bit of a rougher go with a couple of injury stints. There’s a loose ball out onto the field. So Rodriguez heads out back to center. Those are his numbers against Detroit in his very young career. 27year-old from Texas deals to Carrie Carpenter. It’s interesting because this has not been the best season for Bryce. Last year he was unbelievable. This year has not been the best season for him, but he’s had great success against the Tigers. And sometimes you just have a team’s number. So, we’re going to see which one plays out more. Breaking ball waved on and miss. There’s that splitter for for me. The Tigers got to score early in this game. It’s an elimination game. you’re at home, the crowd’s behind you, you got to score early off a guy that you don’t think’s going to be out there very long cuz if you’re Dan Wilson in the Mariners, first sign of trouble, you’re you got a fully loaded bullpen, you’re running to it. Carpenter fouls one away and it’s one and two. And I will say this, the first two fast balls Bryce Miller has thrown are 2 mph over his season average. He’s averaging 95. Those first two are 97. So, he’s feeling good. That’s the pitch he uses more than any other. I asked several pitchers for the Mariners what they thought about Bryce Miller and everyone said this guy’s fast ball is electric. That’s okay. Tell me more about that and they said it just watching him playing catch with him, watching his bullpens, they said the ball just explodes out of his hand. So I think think this guy has a great future. This year might have been an an outlier. Carpenter rips one foul. Still two and two. Miller this season with the bone spur issues in his right elbow. So he ended up going to the injured list in mid May. Came back for a couple of starts but then went right back to the IIL in early June and then came back in mid August. Had eight starts from mid August to the end of the season with a 56 erra. Carpenter skies one on the infield. Suarez, the third baseman, wants it and has it. So, with Lever Torres coming up, we take a look at Fox Foresight powered by Google Cloud. Torres with six hits in the postseason. Couple of hits including a double in game three yesterday. The most experienced Tiger in terms of postseason play. Part of the Yankees over the last seven years. played in the World Series last year. His 51st career postseason game and he fouls one away. Torres two for eight in his career against Bryce Miller. One thing I want us to keep in mind today, just pay attention to his foot on the rubber. Last year, Bryce Miller was 7 in closer to the third base side. He’s moved over to the first base side. Success has not followed him over there. Usually, usually the angle is so important to pitchers. That could be from the first base side or the third base side. His angle apparently that works for him is more towards the third base side better. I mean the stats don’t lie, right? So it’s going to be interested to see if his whole foot’s on the rubber. He’s in the right spot. You wonder if that has had some kind of effect on that fast ball. The run value for Bryce Miller. Yeah. So basically like well just look at first of all the erra and the whip speak for themselves but run value is something that you can judge each pitch individually. Uses that fast ball to get the strike out. So looked good that time as he gets Torres to reach up and elevate. That was what was so electric about his fast last year. He got so many swings and misses on it. Was one of the top rated fast balls in the entire game. Last year a fastball run value of plus 19. That talks about how good that pitch is compared to the rest of the league on that pitch. What if its effectiveness is uh to the hitter this year minus 11. It’s a 30 run value difference. It’s tremendous. Cold Keith takes a fast ball strike. Little two seamer. Keith one for six in the series since coming back from that intercostal strain, the rib inflammation. Taps one up the first baseline. Miller is over. Miller with a flip and Miller with a one, two, three inning to match Casey Mai. We’re on to the second in game four. Playball is baseball’s global youth initiative to highlight the fun and accessible ways to play this great game and to learn more including how to find a league near you. playball.org and follow Playball on X Facebook and Instagram. Nobody in this Mariners lineup has seen more of Casey M than Jorge Palano. Six for 16 with a couple of homers. Takes a strike. He’s done damage against Casey M and also Ter Scoop in game two. But yeah, two homers, two doubles, 16 at bats. This is a guy Casey Meisa might have circled in his pregame meeting. Drops in a slider to for a called strike. Game four from Detroit. Mariners win. They go to the LCS. Detroit wins. We go to Seattle for game five. a splitter from Mai for his second strikeout. Both on that pitch, he’s gotten Raleigh and now Palano. Well, this is the pitch know you talked about. He’s got to be able to control this split finger. He’s got to be able to get whiffs so far through the first two innings. Yes, there’s been some foul balls, but he’s also put away a couple guys with this pitch. Speaking of Scooble, he appreciated it. One away for Josh Naylor. Takes a slider strike. still seeking his first hit of this series. He’s 0 for13 with a walk, but did make the excellent defensive play to close out the game with a double play last night. Some things I really like so far out of Mai. Five for five first pitch strikes. That speaks for itself, but he’s working in and out. He’s breaking balls in the zone. Slider’s in the zone. Slur’s in the zone. That split’s nasty. Aaylor flips one down the right field line. That is a fair ball for his first hit of the playoffs. On his way to second and he will cruise in with a one-out double. First hit and base runner for Seattle is Josh Naylor in scoring position. Just a good swing by Ner. Pretty much sure that was a split. Didn’t get down. Stayed middle. Naylor clips it out front. Doubles down the right field line. Just like that, the Mariners are in business. That’s so important to Naylor. You have to keep the ball down. He’s so good. Thigh high and up. So now here is Suarez. Nice splitter for a strike in the outer edge. Suarez didn’t have a hit until that big fly to left field in his old stomping grounds. Started his career with the Detroit more than a decade ago. Following a strike on Suarez. We we showed the offensive numbers for the Detroit Tigers earlier in the open. But I want to know what kind of pressure does that put on your starting pitcher knowing man these guys we haven’t scored as a team. I got to be perfect the whole time. Yeah, it it if you worry about that as a pitcher, you can get yourself going down rabbit holes. You don’t need to go down two. The these pitchers need to just focus on making pitches, executing one at a time, but deep in the back of your mind, you know, you do know that you’ve got to be really good. Even though you try not to focus on that, it’s in there and you can’t get it out. AJ Hinch turning to Casey Mai for this game. Could have been Mai in three and Flarity in four, but he flipped it for this series. If AJ Hinch’s club wins this game, not only do they keep their season going, it would be AJ Hinch’s 1,000th victory as a major league manager between the regular season and postseason. now in his fifth season with Detroit. Suarez goes down on the splitter. Three strikeouts all on that excellent split. Another nasty fork ball splitter, whatever you want to call it, but it’s just the lack of velocity. And that is one of the hardest pitches not not only for Gino Suarez but also just anybody because it looks so much like a fast ball on the ground. Kzone busts it through the right side. Naylor getting the wave sign. Carpenter comes up throwing. That ball is up the line and Naylor scores. Dominic Kzone has the first playoff RBI of his career and it’s one to nothing Seattle in game four. Another split here. This one’s down. It’s not a bad pitch, but Kenzone just rolls it over through the hole. And because of where Carrie Carpenter is playing and listen, Josh Naylor, he’s done this two pitches in a row now. I don’t know if he’s getting out of Casey Mis’s glove. He stuck his left hand out and they both been split fingers. So now here is Robless with a man at first and two down. I thought he was given location. The first the one before was his right hand, right? And that one was left. Both times. Both was left. Yes. Okay, never mind. Then maybe picking something up from that second base side view of Casey Mai. That’s a hot topic right now in Major League Baseball is is you see a lot of guys out there doing things, getting it from the glove, and they’re not even hiding. That’s not even trying to hide it. Josh Naylor scores on this ball easily because of where Carrie Carpenter is positioned. He was more in right center. That ball went through the 3- four hole. That was an easy send by Christopher Negro, the third base coach. Otto Robas is a splitter. He takes low. A little gamesmanship perhaps. And Naylor trying to help out his teammate. Canon delivers an RBI for Seattle here in the second inning. Roadless with a two and two count coming. Robless with a double in game three. Mariners have struck first in every game of this series. way inside and that one gets away for a moment from Dingler. Robless had to dance out of the way of that one. Teams that score first in the postseason this year are 13 and8. Seattle of course two and one in this series. What is it in elimination games though all time? It’s got to be a huge advantage. Pretty wide advantage for the team that scores first. Mariners with the early lead. Kzone will be off from first. Robless takes ball four and the inning extends to the nine hitter Crawford. You heard Tom Verduchi’s report right at the top when Casey Me took the field. Went just three plus innings, only faced 12 batters against Cleveland, only allowed one run. It was that George Valera solo home run in the first of that second game of the wildard series, but the hook may be a little quicker in an all hands-on deck situation for Detroit. Crawford homered yesterday, was just one for seven in the first couple of games of this series. He went two for two yesterday with a home run, a walk, and an RBI sacrifice fly. Very productive from the nine spot for Seattle. 10 strike one. JP Crawford a mainstay it feels like for this group. 30 years of age, originally a Phillies draft pick. Peeled out of third base. He went around according to Alex Tosim. That’s one ball and two strikes on JP Crawford. Two on, two out in the first in the second. Beggar, pardon. Waved on and missed by Crawford. M limits the damage, but the Mariners get on the board first. Josh Naylor finally gets on with that one out double and Dominic Kzone for the first time in his big league career drives in a playoff run. It’s one- nothing Seattle. Mariners strike first against Casey Mai. A one- nothing start. And we got another ball out onto the field or perhaps some debris in left center. So little delay. It is a ball out there. A deserved ovation from Kica Park. Opened in 2000. First two teams to play in this park when it opened were these two clubs, Seattle and Detroit. Riley Green fouls away the first pitch from Bryce Miller. just six for 23 in the playoffs. Eight strikeouts during that stretch for a guy who struck out more than any player in baseball this year except for James Wood of Washington. Still put together an excellent power season with career-high numbers. Trying to get going in this postseason again. Torqulson has been key. McKinstry to follow. infield is shaded over for a pull hitter in green who pulls one foul and it’s one and two. This year Bryce has been really solid innings one and two. Whip really low RA really low. It’s three, four, and five that have gotten him. It’s going to be very interesting to see when they start getting that pin up in those later innings. Green pops it up. That one will get out of play. Well, it’s also first time through, second time through, which coincides with the first two innings in 345. I mean, the numbers are crazy how much the the splits for Bryce Miller changes. We’ll see how long he’s out there. Dan Wilson didn’t give us an idea of how many hitters he could face or what he’d like to see, but you would think if he gets through the first time through and there’s any hint of trouble, there will be action in that bullpen. Bryce Miller deals a one-two and it’s two balls and two strikes. Remember that Brian Woo, who was one of the top starters in this Seattle rotation, was dealing with a pectoral injury. So with his lack of availability for this American League Division series, that thrust Bryce Miller into a potential starting role. Indeed, that is the role he plays today in a potential clinching game for Seattle. Green pulls one to first. Naylor’s there. Miller covers and there’s one away in the second. First of four Division Series games today. It’s a great day of baseball across the networks. Brewers and Cubs with Milwaukee a chance to finish off the series in Chicago. That’s on TBS at 5 Eastern. Blue Jays and Yankees. Yankees came back to win game three in the Bronx last night. And then Tay Oscar Hernandez and the Dodgers head back home with a chance to knock out Philadelphia. Big time numbers put up by Vlatty Jackson and Tay Oscar. One away for Spencer Torqulson. Strike one. Couple of hits in the set. Four hits in the postseason, but it feels like every time Tolson makes contact, he drives in a run. He’s driven in six in this playoff on four hits. fouls one away and Miller quickly ahead nothing and two a converted starter at Texas A&M. Bryce Miller by way of Blind College, fourth round pick of Seattle in 2021 made his debut two years ago and took a perfect game into the sixth inning. So already people’s eyes were opening quickly about how good Bryce Miller could be. had a historic first few starts, an outstanding 2024 on some of the injury issues this year in an inconsistent season. 02 Green sends one the other way. This is pushing Robas back at the wall and he’s there. But Torlson flies one out towards right field and right there is Robless for the second out of the inning. So Green retired, Torlson retired and now McKinstry with the bases empty. You guys were talking about the velocity for Bryce Miller being high. It remains high in this second frame. Yeah, he’s still sitting at 97. That’s what his fast That’s what his teammates were talking about with his fast ball. It’s It is electric and his stuff plays a lot better than his numbers say. If he’s healthy, he could be dangerous. McKinstry first pitch swinging, bangs one into center field. A base hit. Just his second hit of the postseason. It’s a two out single and the Tigers have their first base runner with two outs in the second. Well, this is what I think the Tigers need to try to do more of. Yes, they need to hit home runs, but they also just got to get on base and hit some singles every once in a while. You mentioned McKenzry’s two hits is only a second hit. One of them was the game-winning single. Maybe choke you up a little bit. I know people don’t do that anymore, but shorten your swing and and just try to shoot the ball the other way because that’s the way the Mariners are pitching these Tigers. Here’s Dylan Dingler. Raleigh with a quick look down at first base at McKinstry who did steal 19 bags this season. Detroit did not attempt to steal in the wildard series. They had the fewest stolen bases in baseball this year with just 61. McKinstry one of the top threats and a disengagement from Miller to check on him. Both teams have left 19 on base. Both teams have had moderate to little success with runners on. For the most part, runs have been at a premium. In the air, center field, Rodriguez ranging back in front of the track and he’s got it to finish off the second inning. McKinstry gets a board. Miller leaves him stranded. Off to the third in a one- nothing game four. Seattle strikes in the second and now the top of their order comes up against Casey Mai in the third. Randy Rosena lines out to Zack McKinstry on the first pitch on the 40th delivery from Casey Mai. 22 pitch second inning. He gets the first out of the third on one toss. One down for Cal Raleigh who struck out on that Mai splitter. Casey pitches at that 94 95, but every now and then he’ll shoot one in there. 98. Throws one high at 93 that time. Right around his average, like you said, 94, 95 in the season. There’s his range. Try the back door slider. It’s 2 and0. And that puts Raleigh into a high leverage position. Green light him. Three and0. You’re three and0 here. Here you got a guy who had 60 homers homered last night. You let him eat. Knows the strike zone. Takes all the way. I would have been thinking the same way. AJ, I’m surprised he just threw him a center cut fastball like that. I think Cal’s thinking called timeout. He’s thinking, “Why did I not swing it?” Well, you think you’re going to get another one like that, but usually now now you might get a split. It changes the whole at bat. 3-1 pitch to Raleigh is outside and he draws a one out walk. Second walk issued by Casey Mai. Again, I imagine both managers are going to be very judicious about want to get their bullpen stirring. There was some stretching going on in the Tiger bullpen right at the start of this inning. We start to see some guys with their jackets off and there is Kyle Finnegan who is off of a couple of days rest. Waved on and missed by Julio Rodriguez. Started him off with the splitter that time. Nothing at one. Hench said something earlier that I he thought I was going to be offended by, but I actually agree. In the playoffs, he said he’d rather make a decision one or two batters early than one or two batters too late. And the first decision is the toughest. Well painted fast ball right at the edge of the zone. Nothing at two on Rodriguez. Well, Holton is up there. You saw we saw Holton. We we saw Finnegan moving around, but Holton’s the first one throwing and that’s because of where they are in the lineup. Naylor Kzone. He wants to try to eliminate the lefties already if it gets to that. So that’s why Holton is up and not Finnegan. If it was in a different part of the order, it would be Finnegan. But again, Holton can get He said Holner He said Holder Melton will be the first one of the first two up more than likely. And here you go. Third inning. There’s Holton. Waved on and missed with the fast ball. He hasn’t showed me anything though that says we need to hurry this guy out of here. He’s still throwing hard. He’s still locating everything. I know it’s a I know it’s a The score the score is what it says. Well, it’s one- nothing. I know, but you cannot give up anymore. And he’s got he’s got to try to hold them at one. They haven’t scored any runs, right? the walk to Cal. If if Cal hits a single, you’re like, “Ah, he just hit a single, you know.” So, there’s some strategery there. There is Holton, the left-hander. Palano fouls one back. He struck out back in the second inning. Well, I think I I’m not going to say this is his last hitter. If Palano gets on, it’s probably his last hitter. if he gets him out, he might let him start against Naylor because then, you know, he he’ll face Suarez and then Kenzone. There’s another row of lefties. So, these are where you want to be a big league manager. Some of the decisions get a little tough in elimination games. When do you go to that bullpen? Two strikes on Palanco trying to work around the one out walk and finish up at least three for AJ Hinch. Raleigh at first and two down in the third. The O2 Palanco pops it up. Foul out of play. Fast ball at the top of the zone earlier this year. Casey did this same sequence. Fast ball at the top, followed up with a split down and away. See if he does that again. We’ll see if Palano is ready for it. Fouls it away. Jorge Palano, longtime Minnesota Twin, had a red-hot start to the season, a rough two months, and then rebounded nicely. Had a very good September. He was a big contributor to the Mariners excellent final month. That’s the first ball he has seen from Casey Mai today. One and two the count. AJ Hinch talking with his staff going through the machinations here. Mises one two and Palanco takes called strike three on a splitter. He tried to scoop back but he’s rung up to finish off the third. Well, welcome back to Detroit. Mariners manager Dan Wilson kind enough to join us. Bryce Miller in two innings hit 97 five times as much as he has in any game this year. Tell me what you see. Yeah, it’s playoff baseball. He’s got a lot going and and like his fast ball so far. Good secondaries as well and mo most importantly attacking the zone getting hit early. Thanks so much, Dan. Thank you, Tom. And Tom, he gets a first pitch pop up from Parker Meadows here and JP Crawford puts away the first down of the third inning. Just one hit through the first eight batters that Bryce Miller has faced. Big spot to be pushed into. And Bryce Miller already has recorded seven outs, one base runner. Now he faces the nine hitter Jav Bayz, who has seen him seven times and has two hits against him. Seven hits in the postseason for Bayz who takes ball one. Walking through the clubhouse today, you know, the starting pitcher, you never even make eye contact with them if you’re in the media. Now I’m in the the media. I was like trying to stay away from him as much as possible. Bryce came over to me and started talking to me. I’m like, I don’t know what to do right now. What do I do? There’s this there’s this common theme that you don’t talk to a starting pitcher on his throw day. Yeah. He he walked away and a couple other pitchers go, “Don’t worry.” He does that to everyone. He talks to everyone on start days. He’s as cool as a cucumber. It’s not like I’m like, “Okay, I didn’t do that. I didn’t initiate it.” Popped up by Bayz on that sweeper. Saw the break on that pitch and Bayz lifts it to Suarez. He’s got a great personality. His teammates love Bryce Miller, just 27 years of age. And this might be one of my favorite things about any player you’re going to find. Cheese nicknames for the pitchers from Bryce Miller. Louise is big cheese. Logan Gilbert sandwich cheese. George Kirby is sharper angry. Bryce himself is string cheese. And I like that Brian Woo got a very specific parmesan shredded cheese. Interesting. What’s sandwich cheese? Is it just cheese that you put onto any type of sandwich? I mean, could be anything. Foul ball from Carpenter at the top of the order. Tom Bduchi, you can add to this. Yeah, string cheese is pretty obvious with Bryce Miller, right? A lot of that is built on body types. Luis Castillo is the elder statesman, but more seriously, guys, this team throws more fast balls and more fast balls in the zone and more first pitch fast balls than any team in the American League. They control count leverage more than any team in the American League. So, it really is old-fashioned, old school country hard ball. So, you might say that they throw as much cheese as any pitching staff in all of baseball. But not in this series. But not in this series. No, they’ve actually thrown more off speed in this series than they have fast balls through the first three plus games. And a lot of that is what you guys have talked about, the ability of this Detroit team to be able to hit the fast ball. So, a Seattle staff as sharp as they have been avoiding some of those. There is a fast ball fouled back by Carpenter. Still trying to figure out sandwich cheese. Do I go like when I go to the store and say, “Do you where’s your sandwich cheese?” That’s like the cheddar slice. Like a generic a generic sandwich cheese. But why does why does Logan get that? That’s what I’m wondering. Like the personalities in this rotation have been very fun to follow. The ball in two strikes on Carrie Carpenter. Logan Gilbert pitched. Last night’s game was excellent for Seattle. And of course, he has the nickname Walter, the alter ego of Walter, his angrier side that steps up in big games. That was the case for Gilbert in a six-inninging outing yesterday where he got the victory. There’s a one-two pitch to Carpenter. Waved on in, missed on the splitter. A nine pitch frame for String Cheese through three in game four. One- nothing Seattle, one win away from the LCS. Call to the bullpen is sponsored by AT&T. And after three innings of work from Casey Mai, Tyler Holton, one of the more heavily used relievers in multiple spots this season for Detroit, will step in in the fourth with this pocket of lefties coming up, including Josh Naylor, who doubled and scored the lone Seattle run in the second. Mai is done with six punch outs in three innings of work. What else can you ask for? I guess no runs, but he pitched pretty well. He made the one mistake to nail it for the double. Gave up the hit. Six punches in three innings. Pretty good, but he leaves behind. Oh boy, that went off the glove of Holton, then off of Bayz. And that slips through into center field. And Naylor is aboard for a second consecutive at bat. Yeah, he was great. He’s given his team a chance to win this game. He arguably could still be in there. Two gloves got on it. AJ probably spinning pretty funky off of the pitcher glove after the first one. It added top spin. You see Bayas because of the hitting the the pitcher mid, it threw his footwork off and gets through the middle. They’ll rule it as a hit for Naylor. And that’ll bring up Suarez. And he’s ahead on the count. So Naylor with back-to- back hits to start off game four. Now Suarez is aboard or at the plate I should say two and 0. My my thing with this is I know you’re behind. I know this is an elimination game and AJ Hinch said, “Hey, we’re going to get Holton or Melton are going to be the first two.” But and he always says, “Ah, we don’t script it, but we’ve got to do do it by our eyes.” Well, like you said, Weno was pretty good. He was great. And now you’re counting on you got to cover if you’re planning to win this game at least six innings of you need your bullpen to be perfect. So every guy you bring out has to be perfect. And he was doing all right. That’s what’s happening right there. He’s talking to Jack Flity. Jack’s consoling him. You know, pumping him up. Total pump up session over there in the dugout. When you come out and you feel like you came out too early, starters come over, put the hand on you. Yeah, I know, man. I can’t believe it. You know, like all those things. 3-1 pitch. Suarez lines it into left field. A base hit. Naylor takes a big turnaround second. It’s thrown back in by Green. And it’s back-to-back singles from Naylor and Suarez. The deadline acquisitions and they’re putting pressure on Holton here after Mai was done through three innings. We saw nasty splits today. Saw him working in and out, up and down. But you see the location, fast balls up, splitters down. Then he froze him on the splitter end. He had great movement. He had great location. He stayed ahead in the count. got first pitch all day long for three innings. Anyways, pretty good. We were talking about cheese earlier with the Seattle guys. Chris Federer’s nickname is also cheese as you might expect. Feder cheese, but with the lefty in now in Holton, Dan Wilson is going to pinch hit for the lefty can zone with the right-hander Mitch Garver. While we have a moment, a quick word from Strauss. From the fields we farm to the fields we play, work wins the game. Strauss at Major League Baseball. Gear for any season. So Garver, who was one for three in game two as the DH and then pinch hit yesterday and flew out. He will climb in right-handed. Still have another lefty coming up in two batters and JP Crawford. Did look like Kyle Finnegan was starting to stir again in that Detroit bullpen. So lefty on righty now with Holton dealing. There’s a strike. Keep an eye on Josh Naylor out at second base as well. Remember he was able to signal home for Kzone back in that second inning. You see the arm motions. Garver waves and misses. Nothing at two. I mean, what in the world? You got to I think right here you got to bring in your second baseman and bluff him. You got to be pay you got to make him pay attention to you instead of stealing signs like that, you know. And then look, got to be creative with how late you set up right here, too, as a catcher. Got to guard your glove. I mean, this is blatant. And it could be for show, but it doesn’t look like it. Doesn’t matter. Garver bounces it left side and foul. So, for those not in the know, can you guys kind of walk me through the the process? I think he’s when he’s pushing out right arm like that, I think he’s telling him it’s away. when he’s I mean that’s I’ I’ve never seen it so blatant in my whole life. I haven’t watched a lot of games this year because it it’s getting crazy. And some guys say, “Oh, I’m just doing it for show.” But why are you doing it for show? Just just to make someone think you’re doing something like I’ve never seen that. And what I think he’s doing is he’s picking it up. See, two hands that time. So what’s two hands mean? I don’t know. I don’t like it. It used to be a thing, you know, if someone would go out there and say something. And again, we should establish there’s nothing illegal about this. It’s not against the rules. this back in the day as you guys talked about with it obvious a little bit of a gentleman’s agreement not to do it as obviously as you see teams not just the Mariners right now but many teams most teams give him a hard step to second right here make him take a step back Garver flies it out down the right field line for Carpenter and that will drop foul Does this get into a pitcher’s head at all if they know that this is taking place? Yeah, I mean I’m I I would turn around and look and if you see that you can’t you can’t throw a pitch forward without meeting with your catcher and figuring out some kind of system to get past that. And that may be exactly what Naylor’s trying to get to happen. just not focused on making a pitch. Breaking ball from Holton misses and it runs the count full and there’s not as often as you can go up to the mound obviously when the role change happened a few years ago. They limited the amount of mountain visits. You could have probably talked about this in the course of the game. Not as many opportunities to do that anymore. 3-2. Oh boy. Holton was ahead of Garber 02 and he works back to the count. to draw a walk. The first three have reached against Holton. And here comes AJ Hinch with the hook. And a big spot coming up. Seattle with an opportunity in the fourth inning to maybe bust this game open. Base is loaded. Nobody out. Robless is coming up. Naylor is doubled, scored, hit a single and is the relay man right now for the rest of his teammates. One- nothing Mariners. Sights and sounds from the American League Division Series in Detroit. Big spot here in the fourth. Base is loaded, nobody out. Kyle Finnegan is on. Here is Victor Robless. Finnegan pitching for the fifth time in the postseason already. Took the loss in game two when the Mariners put together their big rally with Raleigh Rodriguez and Palano. Naylor Suarez and Garver are aboard for Seattle. A big cut from Robas. It’s one and one. It’s already the third different pitcher that Detroit has thrown out there to try to save their season. 1-1. It is low. Two and one. You got to get out of this. Maybe give up one. If you if you start getting into really big crooked numbers here, it’s a it’s an uphill battle for for these Tigers because the way Bryce Miller has owned them and then they got a fully loaded bullpen with guys that don’t give up runs. It’s got to be an out here on the ground. Bayz has it. Flips to second. Throw by Torres. That is a double play. The run does score. It’s two nothing Seattle. Naylor comes across and the Mariners add one on, but they do get the double play. Do the Tigers. On to third base goes Suarez. That’s a big thing. That’s that’s about as good as you can do. Yes, you’d love to not give up give up any, but here you go. You get the double play and you got a chance to get out of this mess with only one run. That is best case scenario. The Tigers can pull it off. Here’s JP Crawford with Suarez at third. Takes ball one. Almost kind of hit the bare hand of Bayz first and he redirected it into the glove. Torres with a good relay. Crawford will take ball two. JP Crawford deep into his seventh season with the Mariners. Just his second career playoff series. Third career playoff series. His second playoff. Pops it up. Dingler flips the mask away and Detroit limits the damage as Finnegan comes in out of the bullpen. Naylor scores. It’s a two nothing Seattle lead in game four. Welcome back to Detroit with Tigers manager AJ Hench. Your 11th elimination game. You know how urgent these are. Why go to the bullpen in the fourth inning? Uh well, we had the where the game dropped us off had Naylor and Kenzone in the same at bat or the same inning. And if somebody had gotten on, I was going to take Kenzone out um or take take Mai’s out. So I I like the pocket that it was at. We’re going to be aggressive with our bullpen usage. Um they put some at bats together to to create an inning. Bryce Miller looks like he’s playing the classic high low game with your hitters. What do you need to do to get on top? I think we got to piece together some at bats. I mean, obviously he’s got a pretty good fast ball today. It looks like he gets kind of the playoff boost of one or two miles an hour above his fast ball. And we’ve got to stay in the zone. But if we if we expand and try to make up this two-run deficit in the span of one spin, one swing, you know, we’re going to we’re going to have a tough time. Thanks, AJ. You got it. Nothing at two on Gabber Torres, Tom, who struck out on a fast ball back in the first. So 11th batter Miller is facing and Torres continues a solid series. His seventh hit of the postseason and the leadoff man is on base for Detroit in the fourth. You guys have always talked about the second and third time through the order that it gets a little bit harder and a little bit harder, but the jump here from first to second is a little bit bigger than we’re used to seeing. Again, this is just this season for Miller. It’s crazy. I I’ve never I don’t know if I’ve ever seen numbers like that for a starting pitcher that jumps that much. You might see 50 to 100 points in OPS or average, but first pitch swinging and that’s foul down the right field line from Colt Keith. And the thing for me, I think it’s cuz he’s really a two- pitch guy. He’s kind Casey M is also but Miller throws the high fast ball and he throws a split behind it. So I think as a hitter, you go up there after the first time and say, “Okay, it’s one or the other.” And you pick one and maybe pick the one he got you out the first time or pick the opposite. I don’t know. I can’t explain that one. Keith on the ground. Naylor is there. It’s going to be a double play. Josh Naylor makes a fabulous defensive play again. He ended the game last night snaring a liner and this time he trapped it. Got the tag. Tag the bag. Double play. That er game two is long gone. He’s made two huge defensive plays. smart with the way he did this though. Glaver, I don’t know. Glabber goes back, I guess, to avoid the ball and then he realizes he’s out, but he tags him first and then steps on the base, which negates Glaver being able to go back to first. So, that was really smart the way Naylor did that. You have to do it in that order because again, had that ball been caught, Torres goes to the bag and it’s all right, he just tagged up. He’s fine. It’s one out. But because he tagged Torres first on a trapped ball, that’s like tagging a runner if he was in the middle of first and second and then he gets the out at first. An exceptional play by Naylor again. Riley Green takes high. He ended the game last night on a hard shot at first. That’s close to making this game that game interesting last night. But that’s actually good base running, too. I’ve seen a lot of veteran players use that because if the if the first baseman comes up firing to second when they catch that ground ball he goes back to he goes back to first it complicates things. See that you see that Paul Goldmith used to run that play all the time and veteran guys will go back to first and confuse people. Waved on and missed by Green. Two and two. Well, the play is you take two hard steps to second. Yeah. Make them th make if they think they’re going to tag the base, make them tag it and then you go back. That’s the play. Yeah. Nobody ever does. It’s very rare to see someone do it, but if you can do it, it works. Miller to Green and a bouncing ball and Josh Naylor with an easy play there. He’s been heavily involved in a two nothing Seattle lead in game four through four offense and defense here in the fourth game. To the fifth we go in game four. A huge day of college football coming your way with Big Noon Saturday on Fox. Jeremiah Smith and number one Ohio State gets set to go against a top 20 Illinois squad. TCUK K State, Kansas, and Texas Tech. It all starts with big noon kickoff only on Fox on Saturday. Top of the order for Seattle. Runs in the second and fourth. Both scored by Josh Naylor and just made an excellent defensive play in that bottom of the fourth inning after the leadoff man got on base. Kyle Finnegan who came in to clean up the Holton mess in the fourth facing Randy Rose Arena. One pitch is low to even the count. Now, so far, this is the Josh Naylor game. Two hits, two runs, whatever he’s doing at second base and a few nice defensive plays, too. A one-1 pitch pass to diving Mckinstry and Aros Arena is aboard. Leadoff man on base for Seattle here in the fifth. Seattle’s offense keeps it moving. Their fifth hit against Detroit pitching today. Little shadow. Yeah, shadows are shadows are coming. A portion of that dirt area around home plate is getting the shadows from the light stansions right now. Here’s Cal Raleigh. I know hitters used to tell me, and I’m going to ask you too, AJ. Hitters used to tell me in those when the shadow really covered up that back half front of the plate, they would say, “If you could throw something that looked like a fast ball that ended up not be a slider, change up or something made it very hard to recognize. Is that what your experience was?” Yeah. Something that looked like a fast ball, curveball, you kind of see the little pop, so you got that. But a fast ball or a split change up or slider like a little cutter, a smaller slider were the hardest ones to pick up. Yeah. I don’t think it’s bad right now though cuz it’s just that little area right around home plate. The pitcher and the the batters eye are still bright. So that I don’t think it’s as bad. If anything, it it helps Cal Raleigh if he doesn’t wear sunglasses maybe see the ball a little better. 02. That one is off the glove of Dingler, but he flags it down before Rose Arena can take off from first. Excellent defensive season for both Raleigh and Dingler. I imagine these two along with Alejandro Kirk will be right up there as potential gold glove winners this season in the American League for the catcher position. One-two delivery. That one gets away. The spike splitter from Kyle Finnegan. And Arose Arena moves into scoring position with nobody out. See, here’s where if you’re the Mariners, you just got to step on him right here. This you got the the meat of your order up. You got the leadoff guy here on second base. You’ve got a late inning reliever in his second inning. Something he hadn’t done a whole lot this year. You got to you got to put some runs on the board here if you’re the Mariners and put this series to bed. Watch Randy at second, too. He’s got a big leg kick. If he starts getting a good secondary, he could take third. Raleigh into right field. That’s down for a base hit. Arena’s getting the wave home. He’s going to come around and score. Raleigh with another RBI in Detroit. And it’s three to nothing Seattle. And the momentum squarely in Seattle’s favor as they try to put this series away. Just a fast ball up. Just got it out over the plate and stayed up the middle with it. He’s done that all series. Rodriguez fouls back a fast ball. I’ve been so impressed with him. He’s not just a home run hitter and he does it all. He hits to all fields, both sides of the plate. He’s been absolutely clutch this series, this season. There was a time a couple of years ago and we talked about the Seattle front office which at times has been hit or miss in terms of getting players but they were aggressive at the deadline a few years ago. They missed out on the postseason in 23 and 24 by one game. And after the 23 season, Cal Raleigh was critical and said he would like to see more players and more opportunities to bring free agents in to trade to be more aggressive. He apologized for the comments, but then the next day also said, “I don’t apologize for wanting that for the city of Seattle, for their fans, for the organization.” And he in that moment kind of took on an immediate leadership role. And it has only grown over the last three seasons. Well, look what they did at the trade deadline this year. Yep. Somebody listened. Just imagine, AJ, you’re in that clubhouse. the mojo you feel when your GM adds 62 home runs to the middle of your lineup with two great guys to come into the clubhouse as well. Naylor and Suarez. Two great guys, but great players, great power. I mean, those guys had to be they had to be dancing in there that day. Two- two pitch on the ground to third. McKinstry scoops it, slings it to second. Relay to first. Rodriguez beats it out. The lunge by Torlson saves it from getting to the sidewall. There’s the first out of this fifth inning. Cal Raleigh has now driven in four runs here in Detroit these last two games. Yeah, but this is just good hitting by him. Runner on second, no outs. He’s trying to make sure he gets him over, he gets a ball up that he can also drive. He gets rewarded. He gets a single, he gets the RBI, and he gets a three nothing lead for his team. I mean, you can just tell there is a swag, there is a mojo right now in that Mariners dugout and it’s welld deserved. So now here is Palanco. Couple of strikeouts against Casey Mai. Two of the six that Mai had. diving back in Rodriguez. Rodriguez bluffed from first, took a secondary lead. That one’s up and in on Palanco. I mean, he’s he’s got a big leg kick and if he wants the stolen base, it’s there. I love Julio’s lead, too. He’s he is all on that right foot. He is just looking and itching to go. 30 steals during the regular season. There he goes. Fly ball down the right field line. Deep, well struck. That is foul. Olio Olio had that stolen by the way. He had it stolen. That’s what he’s telling Jav Bayas. He’s like, “Good thing that was fell.” But this is this lead. He’s already disengaged once. Finnegan has he’s seen his best move. Look at that lead. He is leaning. That is the definition of leaning. He goes, gets a great jump. Didn’t even look in. That was a straight steel and he had it. He He had it made. Palano after a rocket pulled foul waits for a 2-1. Rodriguez will take off. Let’s lift it in the air. Left field backing on it. Green. He’s got it. Rodriguez has to head back to first base. They’re two away. So if you look at the pitcher too, Finnegan’s stance is so wide and his his body weight also AJ to your point, it’s in a spot where he has to be kind of big to get back into a loaded position to go forward and into a power position. He’s spread out so far with his He’s got his heel kind of pointed back. There’s really I don’t know if you could be short right there and effective with your stuff. Naylor off of the glove of Finnegan that rolls to the second baseman Torres. Nice bare hand play to finish off the inning. They retire Naylor for the first time. Another run tacked on by Cal Raleigh and we’re halfway through game four. So far, 34 pitches over the course of the first three innings and another quick inning in the fourth. Seven of Miller’s last 10 outs have been on at bats of three pitches or less. So, 44 tosses through four innings. A really good, efficient start for Bryce Miller in his first career postseason outing and he continues to dominate Detroit. And he’s doing it. You see the first pitch of the bat, he’s using the middle of the plate, which is a smart thing, but these Tigers are going to have to be aggressive on that first pitch fast ball so they don’t get 01 every time. It’s been a lot of that today. Torlson loops one into center field. That’s down for a base hit. Third Detroit hit. First time that the leadoff man is on base for the Tigers. That’ll bring up a kid streak. And we got action in the bullpen now. That’s Gabe Spire. He’s up. He’s up for Meadows, Bayz, Carrie Carpenter. He’s going to force AJ Hench to make a decision with with Meadows and with Carrie Carpenter. So that’s why Spire is up. Get through McKinstry and Dingler. That’s what Dan Wilson’s hoping. And then he goes to his bullpen. He starts with Spire to get through these lefties. McKinstry has one of the three Tigers hits. He’ll take one upstairs. It’s such a hard call because if you’re the Tigers, probably your best chance to get back into this game is with Carrie Carpenter popping one. But you know that best swing’s probably not going to come against the lefty. Strike one, two, McKenstry. Yeah, but that’s why it’s going to force AJ Hinch to make a decision. Does he go to Jamai Jones? Does he go to Andy Abanz? Does he go to Wel Perez? That that’s This is where managing comes in. It’s all about chess and taking pieces off the board. And Dan Wilson has the lead, so he has the advantage. He can force the issue. He can force AJ Hinch’s hand because he has the lead and he’s up 2-1 in this series. You see Perez maybe getting ready for a pinch hit spot. It was the bench that provided most of the offense for Detroit in game three last night. Two-1 to McKinstry. Here’s a strike. It’s not going to get much better than that, AJ. He didn’t even look like he was ready to swing on that one. I mean, that is about center cut as you can get. He didn’t even look ready to swing. Taps one to the right side. Naylor’s there. Throws to second for one. They’ll get the lead runner in Torqulson. And there’s one down. McKinstry reaches out on a fieldielder’s choice. You tell me, Wayneo, as a hitter, I mean, that’s not a very aggressive take. I don’t know what you’re looking for. When you see that as a hitter, I mean, as a pitcher, you got to be like, “Wow.” And then he throws, then he’s ready to go on a split that’s down and away. I I I don’t know what you’re what you’re doing. I think that’s what that look was right there. You’re not going good. You take the fast ball down the middle and you swing it to split off the off the plate, don’t you? Here’s Dingler. Scooped by Raleigh on the back hand. Just another clean defensive effort by Cal Raleigh, who’s going to walk out to join Pete Woodworth, the pitching coach for Seattle, and discuss things with Bryce Miller, who’s past 50 pitches. Just three hits allowed so far. Leadoff man got on in the fourth. He was eliminated on a double play. Torqulson got a board. A fieldielder’s choice to get the first out. Got a quick word from Capital One here. With the Capital One Venture X card, you earn unlimited double miles on everything you buy and turn all of your purchases into extraordinary trips. Capital One, what’s in your wallet? That was all just to make sure Gabe Spire is ready. But I love that. You know, did you see was leading that meeting? Josh Naylor was talking the most in the whole meeting. He I don’t know what he was saying cuz he covered his face, but he was leading the meeting. and getting Spire ready. One pitch to Dingler. One and one. Sometimes those meetings are I I love Josh knows his teammates and sometime he might have gone out there and said, “Hey, are you going to trade me Jamar Chase?” You know, like to just to he knows his pitcher. I heard these guys talking fantasy football earlier in the clubhouse. appeals to you very much. Did that to me one time to calm me down. Another backhand by Raleigh. Two and one. See, you have all kinds of meetings out there. Yes, sometimes you go out there and get jokes. I think he’s telling them, “Hit it to me. Look at all the plays I made. Hit me the ball, please. I’m getting everything. It’s my game.” They’re all saying, “Look, you’re Dude, you’re doing so great.” When they leave the mound, I love what they showed Bryce Miller. He was he was laughing and carrying on. He’s out there having fun. Hard hit ball by Dingler towards left. That’s going to get past Rose Arena. That’s the second time he’s misplayed an angle in this series. That’s going to score McKinstry all the way from first. And the Tigers are on the board as Dingler drives in a run. But whatever that meeting was about, it didn’t work cuz Dan Wilson’s coming to get him. But that was this is exactly what the doctor ordered if you’re a Tigers fan. Bryce Miller, nice job. But he they finally break through against Bryce Miller. Get a run on the board for the first time. And here comes Spire. And now we’ll see what AJ Hinch counters with. Welcome back to the 2025 American League Division Series on FS1 presented by Booking.com. Mariners scored three times to start the day. Tigers have scored a run to push Bryce Miller out of this game here in the bottom of the fifth inning. Got Dylan Dingler with an RBI double sitting in scoring position. Parker Meadows, the lefty was due up with game spire coming in. He’s been excellent in this series. Has been excellent this season. They’ll go deeper to the bench. Well, AJ Hinch and the Tigers. Jamai Jones has walked in two pinch hit appearances in this series, including yesterday. And he rips one down the line. A fair ball. Dingler will score. Jamai Jones off the bench. Tags out another for the Tigers. And it’s a one-run game in the fifth. This is why he is on this team. He hits left. He’s got over a thousand OPS against left-handed pitching. And the Tigers crowd is back after doing nothing for a long time. Backto-back doubles. And Jamai Jones ready right off the bench. AJ Hinch counters. And now we’ll see what Jav Bayz and Carrie Carpenter can do. A nice pinch hit appearance for Jamai Jones. Just a center cut fast ball, first pitch, too. And you know, AJ, those pinch hitters come off the bat, they want to hit a first pitch fast. That was center cut upstairs to Bayz. 970 OPS against left-handers for Jamai Jones. He’s the first man to reach against Spire in this series. One and one on Jav Bayz. Inside move thrown on to second base on the pickoff attempt and Jones just got back in safely as he collided with Palano’s leg. If he times up Palanco right there, they’ve got him at second. Yeah, the first pitch that Jones could have stolen third cuz Spire paid him no attention right here. He does the old inside move that says everyone says never works except when it does. She just gets back in You see that work about once every four or five years. Tying run in scoring position for Detroit. Bayz takes a fast ball strike. One and two. on two pitch and Bayz lifts one down the left field line. If it’s fair, it’s gone. It is a foul ball. Joey Corus saying, “Look at the headset.” I don’t know. Jose Cor us friends of him know him. I don’t know, Joey. That’s a little wishing, I think. 108 off the bat from Bayz. One-two pitch. Bayz will take in the dirt. Raleigh knocks it down. Two and two. It’s amazing how much more comfortable Jav Bayz is with lefties and balls coming into him. Right. Righties, he’s always out there. Looks like he’s flailing at balls away. When the lefty throws a slider into him, he’s just so much more balanced and on time. runner at second. The two-2 back up the middle a base hit. Javon Jones will score. Bayz halfway between first and second. He’ll go back with an RBI single to tie game four. Detroit has life. It’s 3-3 and four for four for their last four with runners in scoring position. Two for two to end the ninth last night and then two for two here today. This is the offense that we have the Tigers fans and everyone else has been waiting to see. And here in the fifth inning, all of a sudden it’s come to life. So quick toss over. Neil wasn’t even covering the bag. Back to the top of the order for Detroit and Carrie Carpenter. This is a big inning for numerous reasons. Obviously, they tied the score, but it also cleared one of the big hurdles for the Tigers and Gabe Spire against their lefties. They did damage against him. Now he’s he’s going to be out of the game and they they’re mostly going to use their righties from here on out. So that’s why Carrie Carpenter is not being pinch hit for. It’s a tie game and AJ Hinch knows, hey, Munoz, Brash, Jackson, Bazardo, the guys that he thinks that Dan Wilson’s going to deploy later on, they’re all right-handed. Butter goes, pitches a ball, thrown on a second. Bayas is in scoring position now. These big moments, pitchers have a tendency to focus so much on making a pitch, they forget about the running game. Part of pitching is holding that runner close. Now he’s in scoring position again, the double play’s gone. And you knew Jav Bayzer was going to try and steal that base. Crowd’s going crazy. He lives for this stuff. Carpenter climbing the ladder. It’s one and two. Not sure what Spire was trying to ascertain informationwise. Was he wondering if the pitch he threw on the steel was a ball or a strike? It was It was pretty much right down the middle. And I think Cal Rowley jumping up. It was It was He called that a ball. He called it a ball. Carpenter chops that one back and foul. One and two. That’s why Gabe Spire is going, “Hey, that’s the third strike.” Except he missed. But on the stolen base, Cal Raleigh jumps up. Uh uh yeah. Um sorry. Yeah, I think the movement of the catcher probably threw off the call. There’s the one-two pitch to Carpenter. popped up. Foul and out of play. Bayz has tied this game. Three runs in the fifth inning. One, two to the right side. Slow dribble. Naylor is there. collides with Carpenter. He goes flailing down to the deck. It is the second out of the inning. Bayz moves on to third. So, two big bodies crashing into each other. Gracious. Good clean play though. There’s nothing there. There’s nothing malicious. Farmer’s trying to get to the base. Naylor gets in the baseline. They run into each other. Naylor’s from Canada, so he’s a he wears a hockey hockey sweater every day, so he’s okay. And Carpenter looks all right. Carpenter had a smile on his face after all that, too. They’re going to intentionally walk Labor Torres, who has had a strong series. So they’ll put him aboard with that base open and they’ll go after the lefty cold Keith. This is the right move by Dan Wilson. You have to make this move. And also he’s thinking, hey, he Hinch might use another pinch hitter, but he’s not because again, most of the guys left. I mean, Caleb Ferguson’s down there, but they’re high leverage guys for the Mariners. All rightanded, so he wants to get Keith if he doesn’t drive him in here. Maybe later in the game, he faces a righty that he can do something to. Fascinating strategy by both managers. They’re both trying to play each other. Tapper from Keith to Naylor. He’ll make a play at first base to finish off the inning, but the Tigers break through. Three runs, four hits. It started with the pinch hitter Jamai Jones off the bench. Bayz drives him in to tie the game and it’s 3-3 in game four. First pitch swinging. Gino Suarez waves and misses at a Troy Melton fast. Melton stepping into game one as a starter in this series. Another fast ball to get Suarez swinging and missing. Wel Perez will take the spot of Jamai Jones. Slot him into the eighth spot. He steps into center field after Jones delivers an RBI double and scores one of the three Detroit runs in the fifth. Felton performed well. Four innings, two hits, one run allowed in game one. The one run was the Julio Rodriguez solo homer. Suarez fouls it back and still one at two. He’s got that good fast ball. We’re going to see that really good slider. Batting average against his slider this year, 146. It’s a really good pitch. Got a lot of lot of depth to it, lot of horizontal. It’s a really good pitch. Tap back to Melton, a former high school catcher, flips it to retire Suarez. That was that slider. You see coming off a 95 97 mph fast ball. That good tight slider. Looks just like it. He locates it very well. So now you’ll get a pinch hitter in the designated hitter spot. They used Kzone to start the day. He had an RBI single. And then Garver pinch hit in the fourth inning and drew a walk. So now it’s Luke. Was hit by a pitch as a pinch hitter last night. He takes a strike. And I really like this guy’s stuff. Got that good short arm delivery, too. Gets on you. Way down and missed on a fast ball. Nothing at two. Elton works fast. Made his major league debut in July. His one two waved on and missed on a splitter. It’s a little change up. He He’s He switched from the uh split to the change up this year. That was a really good pitch. Not a pitch he used a ton over the course of the season, but opponents did not hit it well at all. Oh, when you got a hundred in your back pocket and then all of a sudden you get that that helps. It’s tough at bat. Nothing at two. did not go one wall and two strikes on roadless the umpire first base umpire Alan Porter would have said you know the roof might have come off Kame Park even though there isn’t a roof looking for the shutdown inning a one- two and two this crowd which got seemingly taken out of most of game three brought a little life in the final inning got taken out early in this one looking to explode again. Three and two. Rubless was the one that ignited the big rally yesterday. He’s taken some good at bats this series. He used to be a free swinger, he’s cleaned it up a lot. Payoff pitch 3-2 and Robas after being down to the count and two is able to work the walk on the next four pitches. He extends the inning for JP Crawford. Elton took the loss in Cleveland’s Wildard series in game two, his playoff debut. Gave up that Brian Rochio solo home run. started game one and now pitching key innings here in game four with the Tigers facing elimination and the Mariners one step away from the LCS. Top of the hour here in Detroit, Adam Amin, Adam Wayright, AJ Persinski, Tom Verduchi, our great Fox Sports crew. A 3-3 game four. Snap throw back to first base from Dingler and Torqulson’s tag is laid on Robas. I like it. I like it. Get the swing through. Rob has an lead. That ball throws a little bit lower. He might have him. It’s a little bit high and up the line. It’s still really close. A little better throw. He’s out. Now he’s got to watch his secondary lead. Can’t go to first and third as easy. A lot of good things in that play, right, A? Yes, sir. That’s why I never threw cuz I couldn’t throw that hard. So 1-1. Lifted the other way by Crawford. charging in Riley Green and he traps it on the slide. It’s a base hit for JP Crawford in the bottom of the Seattle order. Turns it over. A really good try here by Riley Green. This ball gets in on JP Crawford. Jams him. He throws it out to left field. Riley Green does everything in his power. He’s lucky that ball didn’t get by him because the run would have scored just short. The Mariners turn over the order and Randy Rosena who takes a big cut of the fast ball from Melton. Two out walk lead on walks, two out walks. You have no two count on roles. You walk them. They’re not trying to walk him. But now you’re in the junk again because of walks. Or Rosarena takes a strike and it’s nothing at two. Normally you’d see that big slide right here, but Ry’s a really good strike breaking ball hitter. Susceptible to fast ball up. Fast ball up. He lifts it in in the air. Center field for Perez. And Melton comes in and gets the shutdown inning. A three-3 ball game. and Green is due up first in the cleanup spot for the Tigers in the bottom of the sixth. Let’s take a look at Fox Foresight. It’s powered by Google Cloud. Tigers have tied this game with three in the fifth. They get the shutdown inning in the sixth. Looking to add on and maybe take a lead. Riley Green followed by Spencer Torqulson and Zack McKinstry. It’s the middle of the Detroit order. Still Gabe Spire certainly for this left-hander. You got the righty and then the lefty McKinstry. The one breaking ball lifted to right. Riley Green has finally come alive. Tigers lead. their first lead since the 11th inning of game one. And it’s Riley Green to give it to him. 4-3 Detroit. They’ve been waiting for Riley Green to finally come through. He gets the first Tiger home run in 106 at bats, the first since Carrie Carpenters in game one. We’ve seen you seen Gabe fire out three times in this series, I believe. And he finally got that one slider that didn’t do a lot. And we said it in the open, he had to do something. And I’m not going to lie, Wayneo, you called it. I did. Here’s Torqulson. I did say, y’all didn’t hear it on the broadcast, but between innings, I said, if this Tiger offense is going to erupt, it’s going to be off the bat of Riley Green right here. So now it’s Bizardo out of the pen. Or in a strike to Torlson to even the count. Isn’t it amazing what momentum can do? Tigers score that run. The crowd get gets back into it. They tie the game. Melton gets out of that last jam and then boom, down the third baseline. A fair ball. Torlson around first. He’s gunning for two. He’s going to stop there with a double. Bizardo is hoping for a review of this play because he thought it was going to be a foul ball. Can’t review it. Can’t review that. Doesn’t matter. Yep. He can hope and wish and everything he wants, but you can’t review this one. I love you got Suarez pointing at a mark. You got Joey Cora, the third base coach, pointing at a different mark. I mean, I don’t know. You got two guys staring at it. That is so close. It’s a non-reviewable play because the ball hit shy of the third base line or third base bag I should say on the infield. You can review it if it’s a line drive beyond the third base bag on a line, but you can’t do it if it’s already established contact shy of the third base bag on the infield. McKinstry takes ball one. Oh, I love this angle. Make the call. Goes over the bag and according to the left field umpire, Jeremy Rehack. Well, that’s Alex Tosy, the third base umpire’s toy, right? But there’s two guys within 20 ft of each other looking at the same ball. Jeremy Rehack is not going to overturn his buddy Alex Toy. They’re going to be in agreement. But I I mean, we just saw a camera right down the line. You tell me if that ball’s fair or foul. right side. That’s through a base hit. McKinstry, he delivers to drive in Torqulson. It’s five to three Detroit. McKinstry will stay at first. And the Tigers offense has taken the momentum right back in game four. Third RBI of the postseason for McKinstry has given Detroit a two-run lead. Great job again. Trying to do the right thing. Runner on second. No outs. He’s trying to get him over. They thought he might bunt. Naylor was drawn in. He gets rewarded with not only a knock, but an RBI. Man, is this game flipped. I mean, the crowd, the momentum, the energy. It was dead in here. They were booing the Tigers when they’d make outs and now all of a sudden they love them. It’s the Tigers biggest lead of the series at two. It’s doubled. Hasn’t it doubled their entire run production for the series right there? Well, if you take away yesterday. That’s right. That’s right. But we questioned, we talked about this after the game yesterday. Remember they scored those three late runs? Yeah. Does momentum carry over offensively? We’re like, ah, we don’t know. We’ll see how it goes. Well, all of a sudden, it’s carried over. I was in the clubhouse this morning. I looked at Carrie Carpenter and I said, “Man, you don’t look nervous at all.” These guys were carrying on and laughing and playing in there and I said, “You’re not nervous at all.” He said, “Why would we be nervous? We got this.” Back by Dingler two and two. We We were talking to the starting I mean Casey M talked to us for a long time. Scooville Flity. They were talking about the hat things. They have the hat boxes and how they take up too much space and how many shoes they need to pack. And Jav Bayz has to have two bags because he has so many shoes he has to take on the road. Two and two on Dingler. Check back by Bazardo at first base and they pick off Mckenstry. Alan Porter immediately made the call. AJ Hinch waiting to see if he wants to challenge. Bazardo with a quick move over to first base. Detroit is challenging the alcohol first base. It’s a replay review presented by Zoom. Hard to tell right there. That’s where it helps to have a left-handed first baseman where he can let that throw travel and just sweep the tag. This close. I miss the days of arguing though. He’s out from that angle. He looks out. But what what McKinistry was arguing is that Naylor, see how Naylor’s in front of the base and he has to go around him instead of being able to go straight in. There’s a rule you can’t block the base. But I don’t think that would be considered that in this case. Alan Porter. After review, the call on the field is confirmed. The runner is out. Has one challenge remaining. Huge first out for Bazardo and Seattle in this inning. He gets the pickoff of McKinstry and that wipes the bases and gets the first out of the sixth. Think it just barely beat him. Still out of the stretch. the two- two called strike three and a slider and Dingler goes down looking just like that two down. Oh yeah. So Cal Raleigh right there I think drops his glove giving Bazarda when to throw. I think they’re waiting for either McKinstry to lean a little bit or take an extra little step, but 100% that looked like a timing play. So do that all the time, mostly at second base. But watch Cal Raleigh drop his glove. Boom. The throw’s gone. McKinstry’s out. Now it’s Wel Perez for his first at bat. And it’s nothing at two. Did you see when he stood up to Kry stands up and he says, “No, I got my hand in there.” And Alan Porter says, “I didn’t see it like that, but look, you can challenge. You know, I I miss the days of getting in the face and arguing and manager coming out. Knowing you the way we do, Weno, like the aggressiveness constantly comes out. I mean, I have to fear. Oh, yeah. You know how how angry you get. I say I would be You got You’ve got guys that would do it for you. You’re so polite now this game. The one-two pitch. Perez takes a breaking ball and it’s two and two. Wild game here in game four in Detroit. Mariners scored one in the second, one in the fourth, one in the fifth. Tigers put a three spot up in the fifth. The green homer to start the bottom of the sixth. And now Perez guls one fair down the right field line. He’s looking for extra bases. He’s got a two out double. Green is homered in this inning. McKinstry has driven in Spencer Torqulson and suddenly the Tigers offense which was very quiet in particular against young Bryce Miller has come up huge in the last two innings to bring life to this crowd, to that dugout and a little bit to their season. Bayz, who tied the game in the fifth, takes ball one. It’s amazing. Those numbers we just showed are amazing because the whole series, the offense for the Tigers has been dead. No energy, nothing. The one homer by Carpenter really was the only life that they had shown. And then all of a sudden, a five spot real quick. And now two more. Bayz first playoff home run in eight years has put Detroit on top by four. Heat. Heat. A seven run, two inning explosion by Detroit’s offense. Carpenter takes a big cut of a fast ball. Banging breaking ball. And Java, we’ve mentioned it all series, has been under control. And that was a real homer that went into the old stadium, the old fence. But wow. Oh yeah. And that’s exactly in the same location that he missed two sliders early in this earlier in this series when the game was on the line. He did not miss it today. Jav leans back like that. You know he got it. When he when he swings and leans back again, what do they say? The flip the script has been flipped. And the home runs and the base hits with guys in scoring position. All of a sudden the Tigers can do no wrong. Carpenter out to center. Rodriguez is there to finish off a productive Detroit sixth inning. In their last two frames, seven runs, nine hits, six extra base hits, including two home runs from Riley Green and Javier Bayz. The Tigers have come to life to the seventh in a 7-3 game. Cal Raleigh pops up the first pitch of the seventh inning against Troy Melton up to Jav Bayz who capped the sixth inning with his first playoff home run since October 18th, 2017. a two home run effort in game four of the NLCS against the Dodgers in what ended up being a 3-2 win. Riley Green and Jav Bayz each going yard for Detroit make it a seven to three ball game. Julio Rodriguez will take a strike. Melton started the sixth inning. Left a couple of runners on base. Rodriguez was very productive in the first two games of this series in Seattle. He’s 0 for eight in the two games so far here in Detroit in this series. Guy who’s dominated Detroit pitching for the most part this year. 02 waved on and missed. Back to the home runs in the sixth. Lefty on lefty. Riley Green with his first home run of the series. First impactful hit of the series. Jav Bayz right on right. So you got left on left and right on right. These Tigers didn’t make they didn’t miss any mistakes last. Strike two Palano. It was the first playoff home run of Riley Green’s career. check swing foul and it’s nothing and two Tom Puchi you can add cost of exposure where a hitter gets to see the same relief pitcher in this case three times in four games allowed two home runs on a slider to lefties both to Riley Green finally got a look at it that he liked cold strike three a one two three Melton inning And suddenly the Tigers are rolling in the Motor City. Stretch time in Detroit in game four. Carlos Vargas is on for the seventh for Seattle. He’ll face 2, three, and four in the Tigers order. Starting with Glbert Torres. Vargas took the loss in game one. Pitched the 11th inning in that game. Gave up the Zack McKinstry go-ahead RBI. Deep drive Torres the other way. Angling over is Robless and he’s going to see it fall fair and that one is gone. The Tigers have found the stroke in game four. Wow. Now, the other homers I could understand because as Tom said, Riley Green had seen Spire, but Jav Bayz had also seen Bazardo four games in a row. So, but Glaver Torres, I didn’t see that one coming off Vargas. Oppo strike one to Keith. Man, he just that ball’s out there. It’s up and that’s what gives him a chance to drive that ball. We keep saying that, but it’s up and out over. You can drive it that way. And he did it. When that ball left the bat, I didn’t think it was a home run. I I was watching the right fielder. I was watching Ro Blaze and he turned his back and I’m thinking, “No way.” He just kept going. Tigers have scored 17 runs in this series. All have come in the fifth inning or later and suddenly these last three frames everybody is getting in on it for Detroit on the ground to Naylor. He vacuums it up and he’ll win the race to the bag for the first out. Get sets go for week six of the NFL season. I’m headed to Charlotte to see the Cowboys and Panthers. Rams and Ravens will square off as well. Big game between the Seahawks and the Jaguars as Jacksonville got a big win on Monday night against Kansas City. Check the local listings for the game in your area Sunday on Fox. Nine runs in the first three games. Eight today for Detroit. Here’s Green. Lifts that ball left center field. Rodriguez chasing it towards the track. He’s got it. That’s an out. That swing right there is what they’ve been looking for. Driving the ball to left center. That’s when they know he’s on time. And his approach is right. That’s what they’ve been looking all series for. That swing right there. I know he’s already hit a home run, but that swing right there tells you even further that he’s on time. His swing mechanics are good. Torlson takes a strike. That’s the guy TKO who he’s looming be the slated starter for game five nothing and two on Torlson. Seattle won the Scooble game in game two on Sunday after Detroit had taken game one in 11 innings three-2 but Scooball pitching on normal rest on Sunday. He would pitch again on normal rest on Friday. And I’d be curious to see who Seattle would throw out there if this game indeed holds. And we head back to Seattle for game five. Does Dan Wilson turn to Kirby Castillo, one of his first two game starters? That one’s looped down the left field line foul. It’s our player profile sponsored by Liberty Mutual. The Seattle University product and this Tigers team still has to get six more defensive outs to get to Seattle. But TKO would be the very very very likely starter. And that being said, the Mariners have won all three games that they have seen Scooble this season. You said the very very likely starter. The only way he’s not starting that game is is there have to be something something absolutely crazy. Yeah. Something ab or him warming up something absolutely crazy happens. And if you’re the Mariners, you’re staring down that barrel. And if you’re the Tigers, you’re thinking, can they beat him four times in one year? Yeah. Even even though they’ve they’ve beat the Tigers on all three of his starts, that’s probably not a bear you want to face for a fourth time. So, Seattle’s going to need some late offensive life if they want to avoid game five. But you have to have hope. If this score holds and you’re the Mariners, hey, we’ve beaten him three times. And Luis Castillo’s beaten him twice. great headto-head. Now, they didn’t beat him every time, but they won the games that he started. And if you talk to the Tigers, they think every time he starts, it’s it’s a win for them down the right field line from Torlson. Foul. You talked about matching, right? When you have an elite level starter, you have to match what that starter does with your starting pitcher. The Mariners have done that multiple times this year. 02 pitch to Torlson. One and two. Two of the three home runs sitting there for Detroit in this game. And home runs, we always talk about it. They play in the postseason. 12-2 is the record in the playoffs this year for teams who out homerred their opponent. It was 23-8 last year. It was 25 and4 two years ago. 11th pitch of this at bat to Torlson is popped up. Called off by Suarez and the battle goes Vargas’s way, but Glaver Torres gets in on the act opposite field shot for Torres and it’s an eight to3 Tigers lead to inning number eight in game four. This is only one of four potential clinching games today. Although the Tigers have something else to say about that today. Brewers can clinch in Chicago. Jays can clinch in the Bronx on FS1 tonight. Dodgers can clinch at home on TBS against the Phillies late this evening on the East Coast. Melton to Naylor. Josh Naylor flips that one into center field. His excellent day continues. His third hit of game four after a hitless first three games. It’s a five-run Detroit lead, but those six outs are elusive to try to finish this off as Melton, who came in in the sixth inning to start that frame, is now in his third inning of relief. And AJ, you thought that if there was any sign of trouble, Will Vest would get a ball and start loosening up. And that is the case. Well, he’s not only loosening up, he’s getting ready to come in this game because AJ Hinch told us before the game, he can give him two innings. And right now, they need six more outs. He doesn’t care how they get him. And Feder’s thinking, “All right, when’s he ready? let me know cuz we’re going to go get him. Now, if he gets a double play or gets an out, they might go hitter by hitter, but any more sign of trouble, Vest is in this game. Suarez bouncing ball left side. It’s grabbed by McKinstry. Torres, the relay to first double play. It’s the high hopper to McKenstry. Good feed to Glaver. Glaver with the turn. And now AJ Hinch can stay with Melton because there’s no trouble. Erased all the trouble. He takes a strike. His second at bat of this game after he struck out in the sixth against Melton. two balls in a strike. Seattle scored the first three on the brink of heading to the LCS, but Detroit has answered with eight straight. And Melton with a strong effort over the last three innings of relief. Three scoreless from Melton for the bottom of the eighth in game four. Your team, your players, your postseason. Follow all the postseason action. You can download the MLB app, the number one app for live baseball. T-Mobile, the best network in the game, is now the best network in America. Six, seven, and eight innings tossed by Melton scoreless. Only allowed two hits in a walk in that three inning stretch as the Tigers offense came to life with eight runs in the last three innings. McKinstry with a run scored and an RBI in that stretch and he fouls one away from Vargas to start this bottom of the eighth. Tell you what, Bryce Miller was solid. Gave them what they needed. But Troy Melton has been a revelation. We’ve seen him twice now in this series and he is he’s good. Really good. He’s going to be great. He’s not scared. He’s got great stuff. He’s got a sneaky arm delivery. He’s got a great split to go with it. Good little slider. Uh he’s got everything I look for and and not scared of the big game either. Seven innings in this series, just one run allowed by Melton. Two and two on McKinstry. You know what else he has going for him? Former catcher. That means he’s smart. That’s what That’s what it means. as the booth collectively shakes its head at AJ Pzinski. Bryce Miller went four and a third for Seattle. Casey Mai got the start for Detroit. He went three innings allowing a run. I actually was impressed with Bryce Miller. I thought he is stuffed tonight. Today was better than I’ve seen it in a long time. Fast ball was was sharp. He was locating it. A good split through some good breaking balls. 3-2 to McKinstry. And that’s throw base hit. His third hit of this game. Well, hitting is contagious and right now everybody’s got it going for the Tigers. It just took something. It took whatever it was that they said or did in the dugout to make an adjustment. But since that point, since the fifth inning, it has been hit parade for the Tigers. See Alan Porter and Zack McKinstry having a laugh about that pickoff that McKinstry was napped for in the sixth. Here’s Dingler. Those are the starters that Weno was talking about. Miller and Mai, their performances today. Holton gave up a run in the fourth inning for Detroit. Finnegan gave up the run in the fifth and then Melton came on to settle it down as the Detroit offense got going. Miller allowed two runs and then Spire and Bazardo who have pitched a lot in this series. Tigers were finally able to get after them for a charged five runs between those two. Vargas allowed the solo home run to Torres in the seventh. A pendulum swinging momentum game four. Boxbox had that as a strike. Too low for the taste of Chris Gucci. Now the Mariners still with three outs to go in the top of the ninth inning. It’ll be Robless Crawford and Rosa Arena do up. But a five run hill to try and climb after the Tigers picked it up over the last three innings. One-two pitch to Digler. One thing I always wonder, AJ, when you say you get into it, just watching Porter and McKinstry over there on first chatting it up. When you get into it with an umpire, not that they did, they didn’t do earlier, but let’s say you get kicked out, you say a couple of harsh words or whatever. What is it like the next day? Depends on who the umpire is. Most of the time you laugh about it, you know. Owen skips away from Raleigh as Vargas buried one and McKinstry, who’s one of the more aggressive base runners in all of Major League Baseball, took a huge turnaround second, but he’ll stay there on the wild pitch. Sometimes when you got ejected, you’d have a laugh with it about the umpire. Sometimes you talk about it the next day. Just depended on who the umpire was. Some guys understood well a lot of times. Listen, I think I was ejected 10 times in my career. And of the 10, nine of them, I wanted to be ejected. Like, I’m done for the day. Yeah. Checked out of this one, kids. Which I don’t recommend. But yeah, my first one I didn’t want to be ejected. And after that, the rest of them I pretty much was like, it’s late in the game. I’m tired. We’re losing usually. Okay, I can I can take this inning off. But until until you’ve had your kid, this this is advice for everybody out there. Until you’ve had your kid. I got ejected in Tampa one time. My son was at the game. He goes, “Why didn’t you finish the game, Dad?” Well, I said some naughty words, son. A lesson learned in all be unique and interesting fashion. Yes. But you hit a ground ball. I don’t understand how you can get ejected hitting a ground ball. Well, it was the pitch before they got Yeah, exactly. 3-2 delivery and Dingler after being down nothing and two comes back to work the walk. Welcome inside of our broadcast booth as AJ fixes his cord and we get a chance to say hello. Adam, Adam and AJ, Tom Purdue on the field. That’s Fida in the booth with us, our great Fox Sports Group. momentum swinging game, right? We saw Seattle come out on fire to start. Pitching for Bryce Miller was great. They scored three runs. They’re in great shape and all of a sudden something clicks for Detroit. Now they’re in a commanding position just three outs defensively away from sending this back to Seattle. This is exactly what they needed to do. Not only they get hits, they hit homers. And we said in the open they have to get the guys on base and then they have to hit homers following it up. Riley Green homer. Claver Torres homer. Jav Bayz homer. This is how their offense works. Now they get three more outs, they go to Seattle. We’ll see if it carries over. Yeah, the when they were down three nothing, it was looking bad. They never stopped fighting. They had clutch at bats and the big one for me, Riley Green. As Riley Green goes, this Detroit Tigers team will go. This was the fifth inning that kind of got this Detroit team back on track. They had the Torlson hit, the RBI from Dingler, the pinch hit from Jamai Jones. Bayz had an RBI single to tie the game and bring Jones home that made it three to three. That was as good of an offensive stretch as they had seen in this series outside of the bench guys stepping in in the end of game three. And then as you said, Weno, this was the green home run that you kind of feel like flipped everything for him. Yeah, I mean just look yesterday we did a segment on curve where’s Riley. We were wondering if he was going to show up and he showed up in a big way today. Go ahead home run and that swing right there. The next atbat even though he got out driving it to deep left center field. Riley Green might be back. They need him and they’ve done their damage late. All 17 Tigers runs are in the fifth inning or later. And Riley Green with that one homer you mentioned his next at bat. He drove the ball deep to left center that was caught by Julio Rodriguez. But they’re going to go to Seattle and win a game five. But yes, I know they have that guy on the mound, Terrick Scooble. They also have to score and they’re going to need Riley Green and the rest of this offense to continue doing what they did today. That first half Tigers team did this. That’s what they did and that’s who got him started. Riley Green. So Wetel Perez will come to the plate against Luke Jackson. A quick word from Corona. So, a pitching change for Seattle. Luke Jackson comes in with two on and nobody out. There’s his regular season numbers with the Rangers, the Tigers, and the Mariners. McKinstry and Dingler aboard. Perez will take a slider strike from Jackson who makes his first appearance of the postseason this year. Good fast ball, but we’re going to see some nasty breaking balls from Jackson. Got a great curve ball. Perez lifts that one out to left. Long run for Rose Arena. Still tracking back and he makes the catch off from second base. McKinstry. He’ll tag and get to third. Randy Rosarena. Had to cover a lot of ground and he got all the way out to the track to get the first out. Great play by Randy Rosena, but even better base running by Zack McKinstry. What he did was exactly what you’re supposed to do. First of all, Randy went a long way. I cannot believe I didn’t think that he was going to get there. He catches it. Makes a nice play. And what McKinstry does here, he gets it off. He looks, he’s like, “Okay, is he going to catch But he’s close enough to the base to where if he does catch it, he can still tag up and go to third. That is exactly how you’re supposed to run the bases. And now he gives Jav Bayz a chance to drive in another one. Bayz takes a strike. He had the game-tying RBI single in the fifth and then tagged a two-run home run in the six to add on to the Detroit lead. How about Diggler at first? Feel like that’s exactly how you’re supposed to do it in his regard, too, right? Like he’s got to be able to almost score on that ball. He’s got to be right behind McKinstry. He was almost to second base. So, yeah, that was just great base running by both guys on base for the Tigers. And McKinstry is about as aggressive as there is in Major League Baseball. Taking extra bases, going first to third, tagging on fly balls again, especially here in Detroit where the park is big. More opportunities perhaps with that wide outfield. Bouncing ball to Suarez. Nice sling to second for one. And safe at first is Bayz. And McKinstry because of that earlier base running play is able to score as Bayz beats out the potential double play ball. If you ever want to see how fast somebody is, you ever want to see a guy’s best time down the line, first and third and one out and they hit a ball that could possibly be a double play or an RBI and watch Jav Bayz go. He is busting it from the first step. Not that Jav doesn’t run hard all the time, but he smelled that RBI and boom, he got it. Four RBI game four for Jav Bayz. And back to the top of the order for Carpenter. The high chopper there. You think he should have come home? No, because he was going to his left. It wasn’t directly at him. So Suarez was going to his left and he’s thinking if I can get two outs here, I can get out of this inning. Bay has busted it down the line. If it’s straight at him or maybe even to his right, he probably does come home. because he’s going left. You’d go where the ball takes you. Tigers have done all this without Carrie Carpenter getting on base today. One and two. There’s that curveball from Jackson, who was with Texas on a minor league deal to begin the season. He was actually the team’s closer early in the campaign. He ended up getting released in July, signed with the Tigers, struggled in three appearances and was let go, and then signed with Seattle in August. Carpenter skies it out to Rodriguez in center. And off to the ninth we go. Tigers three outs away from sending this to game five. Are wearing on field during the postseason. Check out the largest selection of authentic jerseys, caps, hoodies, t-shirts, and more. mlbshop.com for your favorite postseason team gear. To the ninth we go in game four and Robless will take a strike from Will Vest who took the win in game one with two scoreless innings of relief. He fanned a couple. Six up and six down in those two innings. guys saved 23 games during the regular campaign to lead the Tigers. Robless Crawford and Rosena do up here for Seattle. Two franchises that have both been starving for a championship. The Seattle Mariners are still the only franchise active that has not been to a World Series. Haven’t won an AL penned. For Detroit, it’s been 41 years since their last World Series championship. that incredible 1984 Bless You boys team. So much history for these two franchises, albeit Seattle’s been around for about half the time that Detroit has, but these two fan bases have been starving. The way it’s looking right now, barring a miraculous Seattle comeback, this thing is headed back to the Pacific Northwest for a deciding game five to try to move on to the American League Championship Series. That will be on Friday. Ground ball to second. Torres throws out rollless. One down. Got to go back a long way to see this type of offensive performance in the playoffs from this story Detroit franchise. That was a sevename series that they won against the St. Louis Cardinals in 1968. That’s one of their four World Series championships. Little jam shot from Crawford. McKinstry loves it to first for the out. Two down. Q ball right off the end of the bat. McKenzry is back in and a perfect throw. These guys love it. They’re loving it. Back to the top in a Ros Arena. It’s too bad this isn’t a seven game series. I’d love to see this go all seven. There’s these teams fan bases both want it so bad. I can’t believe that note we just showed. Nine runs is the most cuz they’ve been in the postseason a lot. The Tigers 06, you know that one well, Wayneo 2006, you remember that one well, but then those those years they went to the World Series in in the in 2010s and nine runs. You think of I mean Biggie and Fielder and all those guys Carlos Gillian and that team they would have scored more than nine on one occasion but it didn’t happen. Good pitching on the other sides. JJ 21 to a Rose Arena. Two and two. Detroit has forced a game five. Seattle scored the first three. Detroit bounces back with one of the great playoff performances in its 125 year history offensively. Three home runs, Green, Bayz, and Torres. And a nine to3 game four victory for the Tigers who forced this series to a deciding game five in Seattle on Friday. What a performance by the Tigers offense. Didn’t see this coming. Had done really nothing the entire series and then all of a sudden a nine spot with the three home runs. The crowd here in Detroit love it. Loves it. And we’re off to Seattle, boys. Seemingly that came out of nowhere, but they got they got it done when they needed to. And now there’s a monster waiting on the mound for game five for Detroit. Will be fascinating to see who Seattle decides to throw against TKO. But this thing is going to Seattle and it’s going the distance in the American League Division Series. One of the key swings in this game came off the bat of Riley Green. Statcast 3D powered by Google Cloud. Huge home run. Detroit needed this. This is the go-ahead right here. Left on left. 111 off the bat. 454 feet. Tank bomb. And Riley Green is with our Tom Verduchi. Thank you, Riley. This team was down three runs with 15 outs left, not just in the game, but in your season, and the Tigers scored nine unanswered runs. How did this team pull that off? We believe uh you know we’re never out of the game no matter what and we always believe in in ourselves. Take me back to the sixth inning. The game is tied. You are leading off. You’re seeing games fire for the third time in four games. What is your approach preparing for that at bat? Just trying to get to the next guy. Now he’s tough on lefties and you know just trying to get on base for the guys behind me. Riley, you’re going back to Seattle. You’re playing one game to advance to the American League Championship Series and the ball is in the hands of TKO. How do you like your position? I love our position. You know, Scub’s our guy and you know, we’re ready. We’ll see you in Seattle. Yep. See you there. Back to you. Speaking of TKO again, the Tigers have lost all three times that he has pitched against Seattle this season, but he’ll have a fourth chance against the Mariners. Maybe Kirby or Castillo for Seattle. We’ll see. But it’s going to be a thrilling atmosphere at T-Mobile Park on Friday. If you would have told AJ Hench going into this series, you go to game five with Terk Scubble on the mount, he would have taken that every time out of 100. And here and here’s his shot. And we’re going to be in for a great pitching matchup. Whoever Seattle starts, it is going to be an awesome matchup and a big game five. And it’s going to decide who heads to baseball’s final four. Friday, the Mariners and the Tigers for a chance to go to the American League Championship Series. Tigers forced game five today in Detroit for Adam a bless prot. Man love what you give to me. You go like she just the one she want. I s to God now she do come. Give me love again. Give me love again. If you give me love again, I will never be comforting. Give me love again. Give me love again. If you don’t give me the make comfort I think I’m comfortable. Comfort looking. Yeah. Yeah. My baby beautiful. Any time I see her face you, I could just tell a fool. Uhhuh. Now because of you my call me big fool. Big fool. See the way she be like I’m 40. Give me love again. Give me love again. If you give me love again, I will never be comforted. Give me love again. Give me love again. If you don’t give me no make insane comfort Double prop. I see you. 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October 08, 2025
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