Tigers Win! Game 135 Afterglow Thread
by Ian Casselberry on Sep 5, 2009 10:35 PM EDT
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PrintThat. Was. Sweet.
What started off looking like an ugly night for the Tigers, with Armando Galarraga twice giving the Rays three-run leads, turned into one of the more impressive victories of the season.
The bullpen did a fantastic job, pitching seven shutout innings, highlighted by Jeremy Bonderman's comeback. Alex Avila hit a titanic home run (the majesty of which we were deprived, thanks to Tropicana Field's catwalks), Marcus Thames had a big pinch-hit RBI single, and we even got a squeeze play!
You get the feeling that Jim Leyland can do most anything he wants right now, with this expanded roster.
Full recap tomorrow. For now, enjoy the afterglow!
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That's okay
the Tigers were on theirs to make up for it.
by kendra.michelle on Sep 5, 2009 10:37 PM EDT up reply actions
until you mentioned that
I didn’t even notice – I knew what it was supposed to say and my brain fixed it. :)
"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else." -- Winston S. Churchill
Praise his holiness
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by David Tokarz on Sep 6, 2009 12:33 AM EDT up reply actions
without seeing the game
I’m confused as hell about what happened before the ninth inning. But it was a win, so the game-thread-reading will be enjoyable. :)
"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else." -- Winston S. Churchill
midnight replay :)
I’ll catch it in an hour or so. Even enough time to run to the grocery store first so I don’t have to go in the morning.
"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else." -- Winston S. Churchill
Rays take an early lead off a Longoria 3 run bomb.
Get up to 6 and the Tigers still fight back and win it.
The lighting in that room (where they're interviewing Jim) is odd
sort of greenish.
by kendra.michelle on Sep 5, 2009 10:40 PM EDT reply actions
glowing greening
Radioactive tiles?
"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else." -- Winston S. Churchill
Am I the only one who thinks this is especially huge
considering it was a comeback win on the road?
by kendra.michelle on Sep 5, 2009 10:41 PM EDT reply actions
no
With as putrid as this team has been on the road, for them to take a little of their home mojo with them is enormous. Like blue whale-sized enormous.
"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else." -- Winston S. Churchill
He was starting to hit a little bit more before the All-Star break.
Seems like Magglio has refound his stroke. I think the rest he gets by being removed from games and whatnot may actually be helping him but that’s just anecdotal musings.
can I just say
I just re-watched the play when kelly stole second.
he re-folded his pants so that the dirt stain/hole in his pants wasn’t showing.
DAPPER DON.
I thought you were going to mention the sliver of knee flesh that poked through.
by StringTheory on Sep 5, 2009 10:48 PM EDT up reply actions
What a strange and wonderful game.
This team is better than 2006, in my opinion. By this time in 2006 they had started phoning it in and the meltdown had begun. This team takes NOTHING for granted and claws and scrapes its way back. Who’s the worst player on the team? Everett? Gets a nice bunt tonight. Galarraga? Maybe, but he gave us some good games early on that got us a jump up on the competition.
Everybody’s contributing, everybody’s hustling. I LOVE THESE GUYS!
you can make an argument right now for Armando too...
he did have a sore elbow, might still have it. Might be a good idea to shut him down but I don’t know who I’d rather have start. Especially with Wash currently hurting. I’m like Jimmy and prefer Minor in the bullpen. Not sure you want to mess with bullpen to much anyway considering how they’re pitching right now.
My Music: Some Sorta Giant
The second half of 2009 is going much better than 2006.
But it’s hard to top the way we came screaming out of the gate in ’06.
by StringTheory on Sep 5, 2009 10:54 PM EDT up reply actions
I don't think anything can match that feeling the '06 Tigers gave us...
after what us fans went through before hand, the feeling was just indescribable really.
My Music: Some Sorta Giant
yup
Making the playoffs was more than I expected, winning a round was fabulous, and beating the Yankees was more than I could have dreamed. Of course I wish they had won everything and was (and am) bitterly disappointed when they didn’t but that doesn’t mean I regard the season as anything less than a tremendous accomplishment.
And Polanco certainly got things started early. :D
"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else." -- Winston S. Churchill
The bad years after 1987 just keep coming.
Even though I loved the Fielder years they were just stuck and then came the Smith era. 2006 was incredible and it really brought back my fandom in a big way.
Ah, the afterglow
A guy could get used to this feeling
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yay for 24 hour Meijer stores!
I’m off to get my groceries so I can watch the replay and sleep late tomorrow. Judging from the few comments I read, this is a game I simply must see. :)
Goodnight everyone!
"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else." -- Winston S. Churchill
good night...
Enjoy the Meijer experience. (midlands isn’t as nice as bay city’s though)
My Music: Some Sorta Giant
but it's close to me
And I know where everything is, so I can zip through (as long as I don’t get someone ahead of me in the U-Scan line who is completely and utterly befuddled by the concept of a “bar code” until I want to just kill them right there and shove their body out of the way so I can scan my own groceries and go about my life unimpeded).
Which doesn’t often happen late at night. :)
"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else." -- Winston S. Churchill
watch it
You might find a crazy woman in the deli at the Bay City Meijer looking for you to talk baseball. :D
"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else." -- Winston S. Churchill
Oh no this commercial is dissing aardvarks!
by kendra.michelle on Sep 5, 2009 10:54 PM EDT reply actions
Oops.
All I heard was oven, and then baseball oil that he made his mom get. I’m just going to pretend he was talking about present tense anyway.
by StringTheory on Sep 5, 2009 11:33 PM EDT up reply actions
The amount of AfterGlow from this win...
may be to bright for me to sleep. I guess I’ll just have read and bask in it’s awesomeness.
My Music: Some Sorta Giant
using the pythogorian expectation
the Tigers should be 71-64
instead they are 74-61
they have been winning the close games lately
The one MLB uses must be slightly different.
They have it as 70-65. For most of the season the expectation has been at an even .500.
by StringTheory on Sep 5, 2009 11:35 PM EDT up reply actions
FYI
from freep – Detroit LHP Dontrelle Willis (anxiety disorder) allowed two runs and six hits in 6 1-3 innings for Toledo against Columbus.
I want Dontrelle to turn it around.
I just like the guy. Also if he found his early form again he’d be awesome in the rotation.
Aside: Remember, Hawk said it would be a fight between the White Sox and Twins so don’t get so comfortable with this whole being in first.
ditto
He’s such a great personality and he was so popular early – even if he doesn’t get back to that same level, if he can just be a solid, reliable pitcher, that would be tremendous.
"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else." -- Winston S. Churchill
Hilarious guy
I was down in Lakeland this spring, and my brother and I were watching the Tigers take BP on a back field… we went up to the chain-link outfield fence to better see what was going on, and Dontrelle was in the middle of telling Fernando Rodney and someone else this whopper of a story about a minor-league teammate of his who once got into a big fight at a bar, and his manager had to pay off the bar owner so no charges would get laid. I wanted to yell out some words of encouragement, but I couldn’t get any of ’em in edgewise! What a character.
by frisbeepilot on Sep 6, 2009 12:42 AM EDT up reply actions
Dontrelle does quite a bit of charity work.
Reaches out to inner city youth to promote baseball and overall just seems like a nice sort. I really want to see him get back to form no matter what uniform he has on.
I want Dontrelle to do well
I also want him to have nothinjg to do with the major league club this year.
But then again, I’m also feeling that way about Nate Robertson and Jeremy Bonderman, coming from a, they’ve got a good thing going, do you REALLY want to insert those wild cards into the mix at this point of the season?
Nate’s had a couple of good starts, maybe he’s got his mojo back. Bondo did ok today, not in a starting role. Dontrelle, heck, he could be an ace, I suppose it’s possible. But given the way his chances at the big league level have gone, I’d rather he start anew next spring training and prove it in Lakeland that he has what it takes to be a part of the Comerica experience next year.
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I missed the game
and after having read about it, I am wicked pissed. I hate it when real life interferes with baseball. Anyhoo, looks like Bondo pitched nicely and the bats came through and stuff. Solid win. See you all tomorrow afternoon.
perhaps the best win of the season.
Almost everyone contributed. Leyland was fantastic. All the moves worked. Good to see you, bondo.
by rook34 on Sep 6, 2009 12:05 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
The afterglow is strong tonight...
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watching terminator was great with my buddies
because they then proceeded to talk about plotholes that normal people don’t think of, most of which are nerdy as heck and hard to explain in text without ruining the movie for folks that haven’t seen it…
I Like Pie
What we did
It was a blast. How did you enjoy the dialogue?
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KC coming up – Hate to dim the afterglow but can’t forget what they did to us in 06. What should have been diviision clinching series turned in to nightmare at kaufmann stadium. remember that last game when Kenny came out of bullpen? :(
my hope is that we can pound Greinke around a bit and maybe blow up his era so all of the Cy Young talk will leave KC.
I just hope for W's....
Cy Youngs, MVP’s. Those are just 2nd place goals. Theres only one goal for any baseball team to have.
My Music: Some Sorta Giant
individual awards
Are nice, but I think of them as consolation prizes. If a team gets their main goal, then they don’t mind not getting those other things, but if they do they are nice little added baubles. And if a team falls short, sometimes they point to the consolation prizes as a reason to be hopeful for the future – which sometimes they are, to be honest.
Cy Young, MVP = popularity contests. Like voting for the homecoming king and queen. :)
"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else." -- Winston S. Churchill
Greinke deserves the Cy Young.
He’s the best starter going in the AL this year but plays on a bad team.
And the Tigers were in freefall in 2006 after the all star break; played like crap. Different year. A win is a win and that’s all I want.
WOW what a game.
Even after watching the replay, there were so many player shuffles I’m not entirely sure what happened at some points. Clete scoring on a suicide squeeze, for goodness sakes. That was crazy.
"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else." -- Winston S. Churchill
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