OT: Cabrera Triple Crown watch

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October 3rd, 2012 at 5:56 PM
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OT: Cabrera Triple Crown watch

Miguel Cabrera is officially in the lineup for tonight's game against KC:

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/story/20444862/cabrera-in-tigers-lineup-vs-royals-with-triple-crown-on-the-line

Looks like the start time is 8:10:

http://www.thefirstrow.eu/watch/144630/1/watch-kansas-city-royals-vs-detroit-tigers.html

Hopeful signs: Cabrera is at .331, Trout seven points back. Hamilton needs two homers to tie Cabrera. Both players will have wrapped up their games before the Tigers commence play, so we will know where we stand. 

Do your commenting, hopefully celebrating, here. Updates, shifting percentages and tallies all appreciated, since I will be wrapped up with an eight-year-old who likes to go to bed at midnight, only looking in from time to time.

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October 3rd, 2012 at 6:00 PM | looks like Texas has reached (Score:1)
MGlobules
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the end of the sixth without Hamilton homering: 

http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/4652/josh-hamilton

October 3rd, 2012 at 6:05 PM | Unless the Rangers go on a (Score:4 Normal)
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Unless the Rangers go on a big run or it goes into extras, Hamilton will only get one more AB, and it will likely be in the 8th.  Cabby is looking good in the HR department.

October 3rd, 2012 at 6:10 PM | Hamilton needs one homer to (Score:4 Normal)
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Hamilton needs one homer to tie Cabrera

October 3rd, 2012 at 6:12 PM | Right, but it's still the (Score:4 Normal)
WolvinLA2
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Right, but it's still the triple crown if he ties.

October 3rd, 2012 at 6:01 PM | The Angels will not have (Score:5 Normal)
WolvinLA2
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The Angels will not have wrapped up their game before the Tigers start - it will be about an hour and a half in at that point.

October 3rd, 2012 at 6:05 PM | Correct (Score:2 Normal)
TwistedBlues
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But with likely either a Trout out or Cabrera hit putting the batting title out of reach, we could very well know the ending before the first pitch in KC.

Schwing!

October 3rd, 2012 at 6:19 PM | Absolutely, I was just (Score:2)
WolvinLA2
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Absolutely, I was just commenting on the OP's assertion that the Angels game would be over  before the Tigers game starts.

October 3rd, 2012 at 6:03 PM | History in (Score:2 Normal)
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the making my friends... This will be the first Triple Crown in my lifetime.. (Hopefully).

Go Blue !!

October 3rd, 2012 at 6:04 PM | Here's my strategy if I'm a (Score:5 Normal)
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Here's my strategy if I'm a Seattle pitcher pitching to Trout:  throw him nothing but garbage.  To him, a walk is almost as bad as an out, considering his team is out of contention and all he has to play for is the batting title.  So Trout is gonna swing at everything.  He needs 5 hits, and every at bat is crucial.  Really hard to go 5 for 5 with a walk, unless the game goes into extras.  

So he's going to swing at every pitch, certainly every pitch once he has a couple balls.  Throw him nothing but trash, and he'll be the easiest out of the year.

October 3rd, 2012 at 6:07 PM | 5 hits (Score:3 Normal)
TwistedBlues
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He only can with with a 5-5 game if Miggy goes 0-3, 0-1 or 0-2 and Trout needs 6-6 to pass him. Miggy is not getting 3 AB tonight.

Schwing!

October 3rd, 2012 at 6:10 PM | Yeah, I'm saying worst case (Score:3 Normal)
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Yeah, I'm saying worst case scenario, but that's what Trout needs to plan for, because any other way and he's already dead in the water.  If Cabby goes 0-3 and Trout goes 5-5 or 5-6, Trout takes it.

Now, if Trout is 2-2 or 3-3 at some point, I say let Cabby sit.

October 3rd, 2012 at 6:14 PM | I agree (Score:2 Normal)
TwistedBlues
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However I think Miggy only bats until they announce the closure of the triple crown race in KC. Leyland wants to give him a nice curtain call. If it takes 1 AB into the game, that's all he will get.

Schwing!

October 3rd, 2012 at 6:18 PM | That could be.  The otherside (Score:2)
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That could be.  The otherside of it is if Trout has an out or two before our game starts, meaning it's already in the books, Leyland might just let him play.

October 3rd, 2012 at 6:18 PM | I will be shocked if Cabrera (Score:4 Normal)
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I will be shocked if Cabrera doesn't hit a home run in his one AB tonight

October 3rd, 2012 at 6:06 PM | Hamilton made the 3rd out in the 6th. (Score:2)
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He's likely to get only one more AB.

Eating is murder.

October 3rd, 2012 at 6:20 PM | Don't forget about (Score:4 Normal)
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Don't forget about Encarnacion in Toronto. He's 2 bombs behind Miggy.

October 3rd, 2012 at 6:22 PM | Yeah, but he'd need three (Score:3 Normal)
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Yeah, but he'd need three homers to deny him the triple crown, and I doubt that happens.

October 3rd, 2012 at 6:28 PM | What if it's (Score:5 Normal)
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for a sick kid in a hospital?

...confidence is the stain they can't wipe off...

October 3rd, 2012 at 6:29 PM | Depends on how sick. (Score:5 Normal)
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Depends on how sick.  Terminal? Then yeah.

October 3rd, 2012 at 7:05 PM | He has to call it, point to left field, (Score:2 Normal)
MGlobules
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stuff like that. 

October 3rd, 2012 at 6:31 PM | If Encarnacion hits 3 HRs (Score:5 Normal)
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If Encarnacion hits 3 HRs today, he will be the biggest dick of all time for ruining the fun for so many people.

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October 3rd, 2012 at 7:11 PM | Encarnacion isn't in the (Score:3 Normal)
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Encarnacion isn't in the lineup tonight.

Hypothetically Dunn could get 4 and Dunn/the White Sox are just big enough dicks to actually actively try to do that for the sole purpose of denying Miggy.

"Here we are at Ohio Stadium, in front of 10,000 alumni and 74,000 truck drivers." - Bob Ufer

October 3rd, 2012 at 7:17 PM | Dunn not in lineup (Score:2 Normal)
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Dunn not in lineup

October 3rd, 2012 at 7:17 PM | Dunn is not in the lineup (Score:3 Normal)
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Dunn is not in the lineup either tonight.

Eating is murder.

October 4th, 2012 at 7:07 AM | Please ban, thx. (Score:2)
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Please ban, thx.

October 3rd, 2012 at 6:25 PM | Another K for Hamilton!  This (Score:2)
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Another K for Hamilton!  This one's all but done.

October 3rd, 2012 at 6:26 PM | hamilKKKton (Score:1 Normal)
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Three K's today

 

One threat down.  One to go.

 

God bless your cotton pickin' Maize and Blue Heart

October 3rd, 2012 at 6:42 PM | If Texas is going to come (Score:2)
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If Texas is going to come back, Hamilton might have to come to the plate twice. It's 12-5 A's now. 

October 3rd, 2012 at 6:43 PM | Wow. (Score:2 Normal)
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Rangers are getting shellacked.  The Hamilton threat is pretty much over.

And with Trout needing a 6 for 6 night the Tigers really should just sit Cabrera.  Think of it this way, if Miggy get hurt tonight and has to miss playoff time then we'll never hear the end of how stupid it was to play him just because of some macho BS.

October 3rd, 2012 at 6:43 PM | Wow. (Score:1 Normal)
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Rangers are getting shellacked.  The Hamilton threat is pretty much over.

And with Trout needing a 6 for 6 night the Tigers really should just sit Cabrera.  Think of it this way, if Miggy get hurt tonight and has to miss playoff time then we'll never hear the end of how stupid it was to play him just because of some macho BS.

October 3rd, 2012 at 6:49 PM | He should get one celebratory (Score:4 Normal)
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He should get one celebratory at bat.  Pinch run him if he gets on base.

October 3rd, 2012 at 7:56 PM | macho bs (Score:4 Normal)
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is an important part of baseball.

Warning: My imagination is inefficient.

October 3rd, 2012 at 6:45 PM | Trout hit by pitch! (Score:5 Normal)
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Trout hit by pitch!  Incredible!!!!

October 3rd, 2012 at 6:48 PM | Scandalous!  (Score:1)
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Scandalous! 

October 3rd, 2012 at 6:54 PM | It's hilarious - that's (Score:4 Normal)
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It's hilarious - that's actually really bad for him.  His only shot is to get 5 hits tonight, and it will be a lot harder to do that now, since it will take 6 plate appearances which he likely won't get. I'll crack up if he goes 4-4 now.

October 3rd, 2012 at 6:46 PM | An aside: (Score:2 Normal)
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Holy shit!  Triple Crown talk aside for a moment...but the A's are going to win the West.  Damn!

Would love it if the O's could put the Yanks in the wild card too.  A Yanks-Ranger one game playoff, who would have seen that happening.

October 3rd, 2012 at 6:46 PM | I want the Yanks to win (Score:2)
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I want the Yanks to win because then the Tigers play the As in the first round and I can head up to check out a game!

October 3rd, 2012 at 7:12 PM | AL WEST CHAMPS!!!!! (Score:5 Normal)
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HELL YES!

October 3rd, 2012 at 7:25 PM | Trout 0-1 + a HBP thru 3. (Score:4 Normal)
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Trout 0-1 + a HBP thru 3. Cabrera does not need to play, he wins if he sits. (Probably wins if he does no worse than 0 for 2.)

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October 3rd, 2012 at 7:29 PM | He can go 0-3 and win, even (Score:4 Normal)
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He can go 0-3 and win, even if Trout gets 4 more hits.

October 3rd, 2012 at 7:25 PM | Triple Crown! (Score:1)
Shemmy126
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Trout grounds out to first... believe he is elimianted from contention.

"You Can't Beat Somebody With Nobody " - Theodore Roosevelt

October 3rd, 2012 at 7:28 PM | Side note to the Triple (Score:3 Normal)
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Side note to the Triple Crown, Weaver can kiss his chances at the Cy Young goodbye after giving up 2 runs in the first and getting pulled, it's now just JV or David Price.

Blank.....Blank......You're not looking at the big picture here.

October 3rd, 2012 at 7:30 PM | I think JV is one of the best (Score:5 Normal)
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I think JV is one of the best pitchers ever, but David Price probably deserves it this year.

October 3rd, 2012 at 9:40 PM | No way. Weaver was never in (Score:1)
Maize_Nation
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No way.

Weaver was never in the discussion to begin with.

Price is having a very good year, but no pitcher really has an argument for beating out JV.

It'll probably go to Price though due to having an insignificant advantage in ERA and he's got 20 wins to JVs 17.

October 3rd, 2012 at 7:47 PM | I hope Granderson doesnt have (Score:1)
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I hope Granderson doesnt have a 3 homer night.

"Are you an official here?Because you've officially given me a boner."

October 3rd, 2012 at 7:49 PM | Granderson can still catch (Score:4 Normal)
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Granderson can still catch Cabby in  HR's. He just homered off Dice-K. If yankees play game 163 against the Orioles, then any HR's Grandy bombs would count for his regular season stats too. So we may not know the triple crown untill tommorow.

October 3rd, 2012 at 7:55 PM | Was that #42 for granderson (Score:1)
Mattinboots
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Was that #42 for granderson or 43? Having trouble telling from ESPN game cast.

October 3rd, 2012 at 8:00 PM | I believe that's #42 for (Score:3 Normal)
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I believe that's #42 for Granderson.

NYY is up 5-1 on Boston after Cano's bomb. Don't think we're going to have to worry about a 1-game playoff. 

October 3rd, 2012 at 7:50 PM | The Red Sox are pretty much (Score:1)
redwhiteandmaize
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The Red Sox are pretty much giving them the game tonight by throwing Dice-K out there tonight.

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October 3rd, 2012 at 7:52 PM | If Curtis ends up with the home run crown (Score:-1 Flamebait)
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