OT - Tigers Weekend Series Thread (Lead Twins 1-0)
Watching the ball and stick game tonight and staying in to save a few bucks and finish off some beer in the fridge.
Tigers off to a good start - Castellanos with a 2-R opposite field homer. Porcello looked smooth in the first, putting down the Twins in order.
Despite the doom and gloom on talk radio, the Tigers are on pace for 94 wins, which everyone would take, obviously.
Figured I'd change the title and just keep this thread for all three games.
Game Two
Tigers lead 2-0 in the fifth inning. Sanchez leaves the game early with an apparent injury.
They just have to get that bullpen fixed. Dead last in ERA isn't going to cut it.
Holy smokes the Tigers are crushing the ball. Castellanos' homer plus 3 doubles off the wall to go with another 3 hits.
Looking good tonight.
Plus, Romine with a sick web gem.
Couldn't you say the same about the bullpen?
April 27th, 2014 at 12:33 AM ^
PS Miguel freaking Cabrera just accounted for every out this inning lol.
Correia yanked after 2.1 and walking in a run. Good way to start a series.
All the Dombrowski haters out there, how do you feel now that t looks like Andrew Romine is going to be a decent big league shortstop? Limited sample size and whatnot.
April 25th, 2014 at 10:26 PM ^
Romine hasn't proved anything yet, given the small sample size. The deal for Gonzalez was also still bad, regardless of what happens with Romine.
Not to mention, if you're going to give DD premature credit for Romine, you have to give him blame for the trainwreck that the bullpen is right now.
April 27th, 2014 at 12:39 AM ^
Oh and let's not start talking about the great moves dumbrowski has made to solidify this shutdown bullpen.
You lose any and all credibliity but calling him, "dumbrowski"
April 25th, 2014 at 10:44 PM ^
Tigers have no chance of winning a WS, if the bullpen doesn't get significantly better by the end of year.
April 25th, 2014 at 11:37 PM ^
before they're hatched. here come the twinkies with 4 runs in the 6th, and guys still on base. i remember when todd jones was our reliever and no lead was safe his last 2 years. then we had the same thing with senior smoke. now we have a whole bullpen of pain. nearly lost an 8-1 lead to the chisox the other night. and we had a previous 10-1 lead tonight, going away...
April 25th, 2014 at 11:53 PM ^
Aurelio Lopez, back in the early 80's. Are you gettin him mixed up with Papa Potato/ Papa Grande (Valverde)? As painful as this Tiger bullpen is to watch, no way do I miss Valverde.
and a half with the Tigers, sure. However, the Valverde, who went an entire season without a blown save, is a guy I would take in a heartbeat.
April 25th, 2014 at 10:53 PM ^
Coke makes Kinsler commit errors....erg
April 25th, 2014 at 10:56 PM ^
April 25th, 2014 at 11:26 PM ^
Rod just called out the bullpen, he rarely does that type of criticism. He's right, the pen is awful and is keeping this team from being possibly great. Whats next> More Phil Coke? At this point they probably need to move Smily back there.
April 25th, 2014 at 11:55 PM ^
April 26th, 2014 at 12:01 AM ^
Win! not Twins!
Another shameful bullpen performance, but another Tiger victory, final count is Detroit 10-Minnesota 6.
The more I see Castellanos swing the bat, the more I'm glad DD refused to deal him, no matter the holes in the 'pen. That Castellanos swing is one of the sweetest swings I've seen coming out of the Tiger farm system in a long long time.
April 26th, 2014 at 11:22 AM ^
Yeah, it's been kind of a weird season so far. It's felt like a struggle so far but they've been in 1st place everyday. They've avoided losing streaks but haven't really gotten hot yet either.
Cabrera is struggling but they've still found a way to win. Bullpen has been a disaster but it's really only hurt them much more in the run differential department than the win/loss category.
This is an interesting road trip with a lot of games coming up against division rivals. A real good chance to open up a lead if they can.
Phil Coke seems like a nice person and I would not wish him any personal harm.
But I have to ask: Why the F does he have a MLB job?????
Just walked in a run on 4 pitches. The Tigers cant get anyone better than this hack?
Coker walks in a run.
Twins tie the game at 2, have the bases loaded with no outs....
Coke is just embarrassing himself right now. He is the worst Tiger's pitcher ever.
Dombrowski has to go out and find at least 1 if not 2 arms because this is borderline Single-A baseball.
even 1/10th as much as I'm worried about the bullpen. Already the procession of relievers from the farm system has started, and no solutions have been found yet.
At this point I'd be tempted to return Drew Smyly to the 'pen, hope Joe Nathan has enough left in the tank to return to being the reliable closer he's been for the last decade, and hope someone else steps up (Ian Krol, maybe), while searching for a set-up man that won't cost the Tigers every remaining top prospect in an already-depleted-by-trades farm system. Then find someone somewhere to be the 5th starter in place of Smyly and hope and pray the other 4 starters stay healthy.
The Tigers have the good fortune of being in one of baseball's weaker divisions. That gives the Tiger front office the luxury of some time to find some solutions to the bullpen woes, while (hopefully) the offense and starting pitching can carry the team. You can win the Central (again) without a bullpen, but that's as far as they'll go UNLESS the 'pen gets fixed.
In the meantime, today's game at Minny has been postponed due to weather, meaning a series 1-1 split. As of right now, no word on when it'll be made up. Enough rain-outs already; if they have many more, there'll be very few off-days later in the season and it'll further wear down and already stressed pitching staff.