A Great Game, An Unfortunate Outcome

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00:00Obviously, this game last night, Stoney, disappointment, bitterly disappointing for the Tigers fans

00:06that went there, the Tigers fans that watched it, the Tigers fans that listened to it on

00:10the radio.

00:12It was actually a really good baseball game to watch.

00:15If you just love baseball, this was a great game to watch.

00:18It really was.

00:19And sitting in the stands, and I'm counting in my head, all right, they need seven more

00:22outs.

00:23That's right.

00:25And then, you know, what happened happened.

00:30I mean, it's it's two to one Cleveland, Bob in the fifth inning and Zach McKinstry hits

00:36the home run to tie things up.

00:38We're all excited.

00:39The Tigers push across that run in the in the sixth inning.

00:46Everything's looking great until it's not looking great anymore, which is really, really

00:52unfortunate.

00:53And you know, Brisky came in to pitch and facing Fry two strikes, two and then a game.

01:01What was it?

01:02Two, two, I think.

01:03Yeah.

01:04And then he had the bad, the wild pitch or whatever.

01:05When I went there, I was a terrible looking pitch.

01:07Yeah.

01:08And maybe that I don't know, psych them out or whatever, that he wasn't going to use a

01:12cutter anymore or a slide or whatever it was.

01:15But he went fastball.

01:16He went with his stuff.

01:17Ninety eight miles an hour.

01:18It was just a little too much of the plate.

01:21Fry, if you remember early in the season, there was a game in Cleveland on the on an

01:27afternoon where the Tigers were leading four three and the Tigers were it was early enough

01:32in the season.

01:33I think I actually.

01:34I'll give you the exact date, maybe I can't anyway, where the Tigers are winning four

01:40three and in the bottom of the ninth, Fry hit a home run off Chafin to tie the game.

01:46And then the Guardians won in extra innings.

01:49Fry's been a very good player for Cleveland when he's able to play.

01:53And I mean, give credit to the manager vote for for working at the way he did saving him

02:00as a pinch hitter.

02:02Comes in.

02:03Oh, brisky.

02:04And like you mentioned, it was ninety eight mile an hour fastball.

02:08The bottom part of the strike zone is a good pitch, not a great pitch, but a good pitch.

02:11It was a great swing.

02:13Yes.

02:14And Fry made a pay for it was a no doubt or three hundred eighty two feet over the wall

02:17in left field.

02:18And that gave him the lead.

02:19But it didn't end things.

02:21The Tigers did have their opportunities.

02:24Unfortunately, Cleveland tax on another run there in the ninth inning.

02:27Fry again.

02:28Great squeeze.

02:29Yeah, it was a great squeeze.

02:32And, you know, wishing that that didn't happen the way that that happened.

02:36But it did.

02:39And they get that run across and that run was obviously quite important because the

02:43Tigers for a second straight game, they got to class A. Yep.

02:49And they got another run off of him.

02:51So maybe one of the positives, if we're looking for anything positive come out of this game

02:56and I've got a few of them, but maybe the biggest positive is that the number one weapon

03:01that Cleveland has on their team, which is their closer.

03:06He's been I don't want to say neutralized because he ends up getting the save to show

03:11a little bit of vulnerability again.

03:13But it's two straight outings.

03:15He's come in there and Tigers are OK.

03:17You're here.

03:18We're all right.

03:19You know, he doesn't give up hits and he gave up the double to Malloy and he ends up coming

03:24around and scoring.

03:25So it's he's not invincible.

03:29He's not Mariano Rivera.

03:31He's very good.

03:32But the Tigers have made him look average, which is fun.

03:36That's a very minor positive, but something that could play huge tomorrow if it's a tie

03:42game.

03:43Yes.

03:44Late in the game and class A comes up there.

03:47It's no longer this daunting task.

03:50It's something that you can literally look at.

03:52Oh, let's look at some recent at-bats against class A. Oh, here's a hit.

03:56Oh, here's a hit.

03:57Here's a near hit from Perez off him.

03:59Here's a hit.

04:00Oh, here's Carpenter's three run homer.

04:02They've got at least that memory, a recent memory, the recent taste in the mouth of being

04:06able to get to him if he's going to pitch on Saturday night.

04:10Frankly, I hope he doesn't, because if he's not pitching, it means the Tigers have some

04:13big lead and we're getting ready for the other way around.

04:17Bite your tongue.

04:18Yeah.

04:19Well, but yes, of course.

04:20Yes.

04:21Look, do you.

04:22From what Costa told me, the Tigers are still favored tomorrow because it's scuba, which

04:28I find kind of hard to believe, considering Carpenter's not going to be playing.

04:34It doesn't well, not official, but it looks that way.

04:38Scuba's great.

04:40The question is, will they be able to get enough offense?

04:42Is Matthew Boyd, who we haven't been told, is definitely the pitcher yet?

04:46I don't think.

04:47Will he pitch as good as he pitched for Cleveland last week?

04:51I don't know.

04:52I can't imagine he pitches as well as he did.

04:53I mean, I'm hoping it's Matt Boyd because I feel like what we saw from Matt Boyd was

04:59an anomaly.

05:00That's not I mean, that's not the Matt Boyd we've seen.

05:02Right.

05:04I don't want to all of a sudden figure it out and put it together all these years later.

05:06I'm not buying it.

05:07It's not that he's like Mike Maroth or something, but he was good here.

05:10He wasn't great.

05:11No, he wasn't.

05:12He was okay.

05:13Okay.

05:14What was his ERA with the Tigers?

05:15It wasn't very good.

05:164.8?

05:17Something like that?

05:18I think he was an average pitcher, basically.

05:19Below average.

05:20Okay.

05:21Whatever.

05:22I'm going to say it.

05:23Okay.

05:24For the Tigers rotation at the time.

05:25Yes.

05:26He was average for the Tigers.

05:27Put him on any other team, he's probably sent down in the minors.

05:29That's right.

05:30I'm speaking bad about Matt Boyd.

05:31And I don't care.

05:32Because I'm upset.

05:33You should be.

05:34Disappointed with what happened last night.

05:37So am I.

05:38And we always like to play the blame game, especially in baseball, why didn't AJ do this?

05:43Why didn't AJ do this?

05:44Why didn't they do this?

05:46There really wasn't that much where you can sit there and say, God, they should have done

05:50this.

05:51They should have done that.

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