I peesonally dislike Jarvy for getting paid millions to be bad at hitting a baseball
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Damn…
walk off walk…
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Magic Number =
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Dude was walking everyone. Should have walked Baez too.
Big win.
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Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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The Walk Off…
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Wow, hell of a game, 3 walks in the 10th inning to win the game.
And, that is a series win for Detroit over Houston, team with 4th best record in the AL iirc
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Someone should tell Baez—ya know, we have to pay you, but we don’t have to play you.
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Yay
Torres needs to tattoo his name on Jarvy’s ass to remind him for the rest of his life what a big league bat is
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Mariners lost 4 in a row. Houston 3 in a row! Jays and Tigers win. That’s a good night. Gotta get those first round byes!
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Is $48m too much to eat next year?
Probably, also I think they like having Javy around given how gimpy Parker is.
But mid 26, it’s down to 36 million, and Mc Gonigle and maybe Max are possibly ready. Plus, trade deadline they can have Javy save face by making it a trade instead of a DFA. Now, they would have to eat the whole deal and get back a greasy pork sandwich served in a dirty ashtray…but that’s acceptable.
Parker and Sydney become bench pieces or possible trade or minors ( especially Parker, as Wenceel looks to be the 4th OF).
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A series win against the AL West leaders and the best record in baseball in the last 10 games (along with the Brewers, Royals and… Braves?).
I guess the Tigers are over their mid-season swoon.
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And that’s now 4 consecutive series wins.
Not going to lie, I thought Jahmai didn’t have a chance in hell to get on base. I’m eating my helping of crow at this moment.
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Lat two times he’s pitched, he didn’t get one run of support, right?
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I’m glad we pulled that off yesterday. It’s gonna be hard to pull out a win today. Morton against Valdez doesn’t even seem fair.
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Oh shit, Cleveland lost again last night. Our division lead is back up to 9 games again. Except KC is in 2nd place now.
With this huge lead I would be 100% on board with skipping a Skubal start to give him some extra rest.
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Torre’s 500th rbi, seems appropriate milestone rbi on a walkoff.
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“If you have one guy that you want up to bat with the zone shrinking, making the guy throw a strike, hitting deep in the count and still having the version of his ‘A’ swing, knowledge of the strike zone and a slow heartbeat, it’s Gleyber Torres,” manager A.J. Hinch said after Tuesday’s win.
The free pass ended an epic battle between the Tigers and Astros, in which the first team to score seemed destined to win — at first because of the All-Star pitching matchup between Tigers left-hander Tarik Skubal and Astros right-hander Hunter Brown, and then because the game went to extra innings.
“Great game from start to finish,” said Skubal, who fired seven scoreless innings with 10 strikeouts. “Gleyber, in that moment, he was the perfect guy for that situation. Hats off to him for staying in the strike zone, making that guy throw strikes. Obviously, most important thing is winning today.”
In the 10th inning, the Tigers had the bases loaded and two outs against right-handed reliever Kaleb Ort, with their preferred batter at the plate.
“I didn’t have any doubt that he was either going to get a good pitch to hit or we were going to get the walk-off walk,” Hinch said.
Torres never swung the bat against Ort, walking to first base after six pitches.
“He doesn’t throw many strikes,” Torres said. “I tried to get a little more patient than normal, especially in that situation.”
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From the Freep on Flaherty changing things up
Detroit Tigers right-hander Jack Flaherty looked different on the mound against the Houston Astros.
It wasn’t just his performance.
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Sometimes you got to change up what the vibe is," Flaherty said. “I’m not a superstitious person, but sometimes, you got to just change whatever the vibe is out there. We’ll see what happens.”
The change Monday was a throwback to a change tested in early July.
In his 17th start, Flaherty wore short pants in a two-run first inning July 2 against the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park, only to switch to long pants for the final four innings, in which he limited the Nationals to one run.
“My whole career in St. Louis, I would switch back and forth, but predominately, my pants were short,” Flaherty said, referencing his seven seasons with the Cardinals, from 2017-23, “and then there was a start in Washington where I changed pants and didn’t have any more short ones, so I got the long ones out.”
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Flaherty has thrown 131⅔ innings in the 2025 season — eight innings in long pants, 123⅔ in short pants.
The numbers don’t lie: Flaherty has a 1.13 ERA, 5.1% walk rate and 46.2% strikeout rate in long pants, compared to a 4.73 ERA, 9.3% walk rate and 27.9% strikeout rate in short pants.
Flaherty is lined up to start again Sunday, Aug. 24, against the Kansas City Royals at Comerica Park.
Expect to see the long pants again.
“We’ll see,” Flaherty said. “I’m sure these guys will tell me to, so we’ll see how it goes.”
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