Tigers Win Again! 1.5 Games Back in the AL Wildcard Race

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The Tigers win again! Jon and Jim discuss the Tigers' chances to pass the Royals and Twins in the AL Wildcard race.

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00:00All right, John, you got to give it up for this baseball team.

00:04Yep.

00:05They held serve.

00:06Good morning.

00:0797 one Jim Costa, John Jansen, Heather Park.

00:10We've got Gov and Greg behind the glass.

00:12Any update on Collins investment in this baseball team?

00:15We did discuss it last night and he said that he is, he's been paying more attention on

00:19his phone.

00:20We don't get it.

00:21He can't watch it at home.

00:22So he's not.

00:23It wouldn't have mattered last night.

00:24You couldn't got it anyway.

00:25But he is.

00:26He said he is paying more attention to what's happening.

00:28You know, I just heard from that is the Tigers are officially dinner table conversation.

00:33Yeah, they have become like what people are talking about and they should be talking about

00:38this baseball team.

00:39Yeah.

00:40Doug earlier this week saying, I don't want to scold you, but if you're not paying attention,

00:43what the hell's wrong with you, John?

00:46Last night, this familiar script of miraculous plays, Parker Meadows and center field and

00:52third five plus shutout innings from this bullpen, including getting out of two bases

00:57loaded jams, a magical balk and extra innings to advance the runner.

01:03Something's going on here.

01:05Well, this is, I think we've entered that whether or not you're watching or listening

01:10or there's a lot of people that are, I'm checking my apps on a regular basis.

01:17If I'm doing something, I was busy last night.

01:20I am checking my apps to see exactly what's going on.

01:24And all of a sudden you see in the first inning, they're up one, Oh, Oh, here we go.

01:28And then there's nothing.

01:29And then it's tied one, one, Oh no.

01:32What's going on?

01:33And you know, then it goes to extra frames and how about our boy Parker Meadows?

01:36I understand the, the, the balk and, and I didn't get a chance to see it.

01:40I was listening, but Hey, you take advantage of gifts that are given you.

01:45And this is a team over the past six weeks and maybe we could say eight weeks now that

01:50is taking advantage of every gift that has been given them.

01:55And when you get a chance to move that ghost runner to third and a broken bat knocks them

02:00in, we'll take it.

02:04The fifth inning Casey Mize is still in the game playing with fire for AJ Hinch.

02:11But, but, but, but, but again, he waits till the bases are loaded.

02:15Like, Oh, maybe you've waited a little too long.

02:17One pitch, one out, hitting over crisis averted.

02:21Like everything they're doing is working as you, as you, your seat right now.

02:26And as your, if you're, if you're looking at the game cast, right, you see bases loaded

02:30one out and you don't know, like you, you don't get the full effect of what's going

02:34on.

02:35And sometimes it's, it's, it's, it makes it a little bit more exciting because you're

02:40waiting for the damn app to update.

02:44And then all of a sudden they're out of the inning, you're like, Oh, how did that happen?

02:48Well, that was me early in the game.

02:49You mentioned the Valley outage.

02:50Yeah.

02:51I, I, a cord cutter.

02:52I stream.

02:53I've got it on my phone.

02:55Got the error screen.

02:56I got it on my surface here.

02:57Error screen.

02:58I boot up the X-Box cause there's a Valley app in there.

03:00Will that Nope.

03:01Still an error message.

03:02See, I didn't miss the place and we were texting.

03:05Yeah.

03:06The third inning of the Meadows catch.

03:07I didn't see that live.

03:08Yeah.

03:09I saw it live and man Meadows or Mises fortunate.

03:12That ball was hit where it was because that guy crushed it and he was playing with fire

03:16last night.

03:17Leave it.

03:18I could not believe AJ let him start the fifth.

03:20I couldn't cause the fourth, it was the bottom of the order.

03:23Yes, I could.

03:24I get them.

03:25If he gives up one base runner, get them out of there too or whatever.

03:27But the fact that he let Bobby Whitten and Perez hit again, I couldn't believe it.

03:34And they were, they were so fortunate last night with him.

03:37I like, it was almost like magic.

03:39But I do think something's going on here outside the realm of just, it doesn't make sense.

03:45Is this because this team is getting taken advantage of every single break.

03:49They don't score a run from the first inning to the 10th.

03:51The Royals had how many left on base last 10 total counting.

03:55I mean, it's just like a Holton comes in and just is pitching like he's the greatest left

04:01handed reliever of all time.

04:02It's crazy.

04:03This is insane guys.

04:04Well, and here's the insane thing.

04:06When you think about a 1-0 win against Baltimore and you think about holding the Kansas City

04:13Royals, we're talking about two teams that are really good at getting guys on base and

04:19scoring runs.

04:20Like their offense is good and you hold them to one run in nine innings, Baltimore with

04:26the power that they have, you hold them to one run.

04:29Yeah.

04:30It defies all logic and you're sitting here one and a half back, you're going to win the

04:36series against Kansas City.

04:38That's all we said.

04:39Win the series.

04:40The tension that baseball naturally creates when you get into the playoffs or even playoff

04:46adjacent, it's something I hadn't really remembered it being this way for so long.

04:52John, the tension, the twins win, you know you got to win to keep serve and it's a one

04:59run game and it's extra innings and it wasn't pretty at times.

05:04It wasn't.

05:06And you're going, every pitch matters, edge of your seat, the tension of playoff baseball

05:11or playoff adjacent baseball is back.

05:14And this is now a win.

05:17You won the series against Baltimore.

05:19You're winning the series against Kansas City, a chance to sweep the series today because

05:25scooble scoobles on the mound.

05:29And now you're looking at it going, okay, eight and two in the last 10, nine and 11.

05:34If you want to include another win, they're big, they're doing everything they possibly

05:41can in the last six weeks of the season to give us exciting September baseball and possibly

05:50extend the season.

05:52Possibly I'll take it.

05:54More audio.

05:55This is a playoff team, John.

05:56And I need you on board.

05:57They'll, they'll get there and then you'll get there and we'll have this celebration

05:59together.

06:00Two, four, eight, five, three, nine, 97, 97.

06:03Think about how tenuous it is.

06:05Tigers don't win that game.

06:06And again, it's extra innings.

06:07You never know what happens with the extra runner.

06:09They lose that game.

06:10It's two and a half, but really three with the tiebreaker and there's only 10 to go.

06:15And you'd feel like you're running out of time.

06:19You win.

06:20It's one and a half scoobles on the bump.

06:21It's a completely different disposition as you come in today.

06:23Minnesota.

06:24It's funny.

06:25Minnesota has to play one more game than the Tigers the rest of the way.

06:27And normally that would be seen as a bad thing.

06:29But given Minnesota struggles over the last month, month and a half, them playing one

06:34more game feels like one more chance for them to lose.

06:36I actually weirdly like spin zone feel like it's a good thing that they have to play an

06:40extra game than the Tigers.

06:41Cause I think they're more likely to lose that game than win that game.

06:44It does feel like this is set up for Detroit.

06:46All right.

06:47So they have, they got to win tonight.

06:49We got to win a school.

06:50We'll start.

06:51Right?

06:53We got to start happening where this is the, they win all the games except the scoobles.

06:56Although that would be the nonsense of what this is.

06:59All this is to begin with.

07:01But if you know, let's just say right now a twins guardian split next two days, right?

07:06This be fair here.

07:08Sure.

07:09So the Tigers would be one out on Friday.

07:12They'd be two behind the Royals.

07:16Think about that.

07:17Wow.

07:18If they win today, they're two behind the Royals.

07:21So now you're chasing them legitimately every bit as much as you're chasing the twins.

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