The Greatest Home Runs In Tigers History

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00:00So many moments in that game, it was a tense game.

00:03But your ace goes out to the mound and does ace stuff.

00:0512 up, 12 down, 7 strikeouts before he even bat an eye.

00:09Settles in, still goes 7, including facing the heart of the order in that 7th inning.

00:14He was feeling it.

00:15He was taunting the crowd.

00:17He was, he was buzzing.

00:19But there's this dread in the back of your mind going,

00:21they're going to waste this Scooble start.

00:23They turn double plays, they're playing good defense, they're pitching,

00:26they just need one run.

00:29John, they got three.

00:30You just heard it there from Dickerson.

00:32Kerry Carpenter, not only two outs, but two strikes.

00:35Klasse leaves him back-to-back sliders over the heart of the plate,

00:39and he didn't miss the second time.

00:41It's the first home run Klasse has given up to a left-handed batter all season.

00:46It's, it's the only home run he's given off on a slider this season.

00:52It's Kerry Carpenter hitting the hardest ball off of Klasse this year.

00:56And it's the Tigers who have now evened this up one-to-one.

00:59And John, think about what this means.

01:01Klasse, that's their one big bad guy at the end of the bullpen

01:05that nobody can hit.

01:06Well, he's not unhittable anymore.

01:08It takes the wind out of their sails.

01:09They come to Detroit and the pressure's all on them.

01:12They need to win both of these games,

01:15because if they only win one,

01:18Tarek Scooble's coming back,

01:20and he's going to wreck their season on Saturday.

01:23He's going to terrorize them.

01:24They have to win both at a zoo of a ballpark.

01:28Comerica Park is going to be a decade in waiting.

01:31Loud, raucous, and electric.

01:33Good luck, Cleveland.

01:34This is why we said don't panic, John.

01:36That game yesterday was everything.

01:39It's 8-9.

01:41Gritty getting on base.

01:42It's a pinch hitter,

01:44Carpenter, who wasn't in the opening lineup, delivering.

01:46It's everything this team has done,

01:48and it's hard not to get emotional about it.

01:50So we've opened up the phone lines,

01:51248-539-9797.

01:54There's a Carpenter question.

01:56I said it's the biggest home run the Tigers have hit

01:59since Maglio.

02:00In my life, only Maglio hit a bigger home run.

02:04Jeff Rieger last night

02:06said he thought that was bigger.

02:08And Tom, you said Caputo echoed the same thoughts on his show.

02:10He thought Carpenter's home run was bigger.

02:13Yeah, and I was surprised by that.

02:14And you know, look, it's this is an opinion thing, okay?

02:17Yeah, but Pat is pretty studious with baseball.

02:20And I definitely have a massive respect for him

02:23on something like this when he puts his opinion towards it.

02:25And he said, and along with Rieger,

02:28they, you know, saddle this to Class A

02:32being in the pitcher.

02:34You know, the Mags went up against

02:36Houston Street in that moment.

02:38He was a solid reliever, but nothing like Class A.

02:40Class A's been referred to as Mariano Rivera.

02:43By the way, remember that shot I took at him yesterday?

02:46I had to give way.

02:47I was waiting for that one saying nobody's invincible.

02:50You know, but yeah, they both said Carpenter because of the

02:54moment.

02:55You know, the Tigers were scoreless for 17 and two-thirds

02:58innings here, and they, you, when I was sitting there,

03:01I kept looking out at that box score on the scoreboard in

03:03between innings and had all the makings of a team that was

03:07going to blow an ace's awesome outing, especially with the

03:10guys left on base.

03:11I mean, Cleveland didn't have base runners.

03:12They had some threatening moments, you know, and I think

03:17it just changed the series.

03:19And they, I equated this to watching Class A because he

03:23didn't pitch to Vierling and Vierling got on, they kind of

03:27bobbled it and Class A didn't get over in time.

03:29He was rattled maybe a little bit.

03:31Absolutely was. Watching him walk to the dugout in person

03:34reminding me of Patrick Waugh walking off in game seven

03:37against the Wings when they got, when the Wings scored

03:40four in the first and they pulled him.

03:42That's an all-timer.

03:43I mean, this is going to be one that people reference forever.

03:47Sure.

03:47I mean, it's Aizerman's double OT.

03:49It's Taishan's block.

03:51It's St.

03:51Brown clinching a playoff game.

03:53You could put it in the Pantheon, but to me, you want to

03:56talk about what that home run did.

03:58It evened the series.

04:00Maglio ended the series.

04:02This evened the ALDS.

04:04Maglio sent the Tigers to the World Series.

04:07Maglio was at home.

04:08It was a walk-off.

04:09There was no half inning coming up later.

04:10There was no other game in the series.

04:12The Tigers are going to the World Series.

04:14No disrespect to Pat who knows baseball.

04:17No disrespect to Rieger, although, you know, we like to

04:19throw that to him.

04:20Maglio's home run is better.

04:22Bigger, better.

04:24However, you want to phrase it.

04:25It's the best since Maglio.

04:27Yes.

04:27And to me, it was, Maglio's was the best since Kirk Gibson.

04:32See, and that was before I was alive.

04:34Right.

04:34So, and I'm cautioning myself not to go full, you know,

04:38stony on this, but I'm not that old.

04:42And there are a lot of people listening that when that

04:45happened, it, I rank them as Gibby's because that was in

04:49the World Series.

04:50He doesn't want to walk you.

04:51And then it was Mag's because it was to go to the World

04:55Series.

04:56And then I put Kerry Carpenter's third and I don't want

04:59to disparage what happened yesterday, but it's, it didn't

05:03seal the series.

05:04It sent it home with the advantage, but the just those

05:09two to me will always remain above what Kerry Carpenter

05:14did because of the situation, because the context of which

05:17they happened.

05:18I remained and this is so lame right now to be determined

05:22on this.

05:22I need to see how this plays out because Mags did send them.

05:26Oh boy.

05:27Here he goes.

05:28He's looking for.

05:29Yeah, I've been doing that a lot lately and what's gotten

05:32into you look because I do think they need to advance for

05:35this to live in a, you know, in infamy.

05:38Yeah, and I kind of equated to the Aizerman double OT goal,

05:42which I was in person for and I spontaneously bought tickets

05:45for much like this and both games were 0-0 and it was coming

05:49down to the line and that was a game-clinching goal by Aizerman.

05:53It's always lost a little luster for me because they've failed

05:56and they didn't win and I think they got to at least win

05:58this series to put this up above Mags.

06:01I what I asked I think what I think an important question

06:04to ask here.

06:05Gibby Mags and Carp.

06:08I think John nailed the order.

06:09What what happens if they don't hit it?

06:15Well, if they don't hit it, it's still 0-0 yesterday and

06:19Klasse is likely leaving the game in short order.

06:22I don't know what happens.

06:24If Maglio doesn't hit the home run.

06:27The Tigers are still tied.

06:30Two on right?

06:32Yeah, maybe they still score the run or maybe ask it.

06:35Well, what if they all got out?

06:36Okay.

06:39I think John nailed the order though because it's not about

06:41what if they didn't it's that they did and what them doing

06:44it accomplished.

06:45It's a home run in the World Series.

06:46I think the only thing that tops Maglio in my lifetime is

06:49if someone wins a World Series game with a home run or wins

06:52the entire World Series with a home run it Carpenter didn't

06:56do those things and it's not to take away from it.

06:58We're all buzzing.

06:59We all love the hit.

07:00It's just if you're going to say it's better than Maglio.

07:03I need more than just well, it kept the series afloat Maglio

07:07ended the series.

07:08There was no coming back.

07:09There was no historic 3-0 comeback for the A's.

07:12It's over the Tigers are going to the World Series as great

07:15as Carpenter's moment was last night as I woke up this morning

07:18John the Tigers are not in the World Series, right?

07:22You know, I think for now I will say Mags, but I think there's

07:26room for this to be come bigger.

07:28You know, we're just this is still soaking in and it happened

07:31what 13 hours ago, right?

07:34And I know this that when Mags hit his I jumped up in euphoria

07:40and I had the similar experience with my kids and my wife

07:42yesterday at the game, you know, that was this the similarity

07:47was it was very even in terms of just pure joy ecstasy hugging

07:51people high-fiving strangers, you know, and I just I believe

07:56for this the Trump Mags.

07:58They've got to win the series.

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