Comments on: Game 2009.089: Tigers at Yankees

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:48:18 +0000

Thanks guys. I appreciate the numbers. I can’t believe their percentage is lower than the league average.

By: Keith (Mr. X)

Keith (Mr. X) — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:34:52 +0000

Sabathia pitches that way vs every team. NY’s scored just 2 runs against us. I guess we shutdown and exposed their heavy hitting monster of a line-up…… All we needed was one clutch hit to win the game. Still lots of important games to be played. I don’t understand why people are waving a white flag already.

By: Keith (Mr. X)

Keith (Mr. X) — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:19:54 +0000

Geez, it’s just 1 game and another tight 1 run game at that. The Tigers are 13-13 in one run games this year. So it’s not like we never win close games. Also it was a road game vs the highest scoring team in the the league and against one of the best pitchers in baseball. The odds were stacked against us, but we lost 2-1. We were just one swing of the bat away from winning the game. It could of went either way. Both of these games in NY could of went either way.

I would understand the complaining and unhappiness if we were in last place and on the verge of having a fire sale. This is what baseball fans and Tiger fans like myself dream about. It’s the golden chance to make it to the playoffs. To have games that matter come August and September. The stretch run is the most glorious part of the regular season if your team is in the hunt. It don’t get much better than this. I’m going to soak it in all I can. If you can’t enjoy how the Tigers are playing right now, then you probably never will.

By: T Smith

T Smith — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:53:24 +0000

And what’s going to happen if we make it to the playoffs? We’ll be going through the Yankees or Red Sox in the first round.

We can always root for a couple nine inning perfect games from JV and Jax and hope we don’t need the extra inning or two before we score a run. But then again you need to win three games to advance.

Come on. If you can’t win given a pitching preformance like yesterday from your starting pitcher, I don’t know exactly when you can win. It may be good enough to win the division (and that’s a huge question mark) and it may be good enough going against teams that throw out AAA pitchers to this feeble lineup, but it just ain’t gonna cut it against the Yankees/Red Sox et. al.

There is no killer instinct on this team. CC was on the ropes in the early innings, and the Tigers just couldn’t capitialize or take him out of the game. Good teams capitialize.

By: Coleman

Coleman — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:45:50 +0000

See updated comment – Tigers have lower than average solo home run %. I admit I would not have guessed this before looking at the numbers.

By: Coleman

Coleman — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:44:26 +0000

DET HR (updated with today’s HR):
Total: 106
Bases empty: 59 (56%)

AL HR (through yesterday): 1409
Bases empty: 822 (58%)

The Tigers have a LOWER than average % of solo home runs.

By: Kevin in Dallas

Kevin in Dallas — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:44:04 +0000

Good stuff Coleman. Thanks for pulling the strings.

Not to worry friends. We have a good enough team.

By: Coleman

Coleman — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:40:07 +0000

Strangely enough, I’m willing to bet their % isn’t all that remarkable. I was looking at RISP stats and kind of ran into this in the other direction. Consider these numbers DET has with RISP:

OBP: .358 Rank: 8th AL Avg: .358
OPS: .816 Rank: 3rd AL Avg: .779

Yes, believe it or not, DET has the 3rd best AL OPS with RISP, behind BAL and BOS. With an average (exactly) OBP, how is this possible?

HR with RISP:
DET: 28 Rank: 1st AL Avg: 22 (Inge has the most with 5; Cabrera/Granderson 4)

And there you go. That’s the Tiger way of advancing runners – hit a home run. So while there may be a lot of solo shots, nobody hits more HR with RISP than Detroit does.

By: Tbone

Tbone — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:14:47 +0000

The Yankees have really exposed the Tigers anemic offense. Watching these last two games I wondered that if we made it to the playoffs, how would we ever get past these teams in the East?

By: Coleman

Coleman — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:12:06 +0000

Also he was on 2nd with no outs with a walk and advancing on a passed ball, and was left there.

By: jud

jud — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:01:40 +0000

he’s Matt Anderson all over again…100 mph and nothing to show for it..2006 was a long time ago!!

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:51:28 +0000

Anyone have stats on the percentage of solo home runs the Tigers hit? It seems like it’s about 75% but I’m guessing somewhere around 55-60%. What is the league average for solo shots? Billfer, any stats on this?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:38:31 +0000

Tigers are 1-20 with RISP the last two games.

By: Keith (Mr. X)

Keith (Mr. X) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:41:19 +0000

At least we don’t have to worry about Bonderman, Kenny Rogers, or Nate Robertson disappearing in the 2nd half again. I mainly blame those 3 for the teams previous 2nd half slides. I’m glad that this team is nothing like the past teams. We have a good solid defense to fall back on and a pretty good starting rotation. We don’t have to rely on slug feasts every other game. We’re going to win more games than not just as long as Verlander, Jackson, Porcello, and Galarraga stay healthy.

I like our chances of going to the playoffs more than any other team in this division.

By: Kevin in Dallas

Kevin in Dallas — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:18:36 +0000

Calm down boys. Just two games, on the road, versus the Yankees. I really like our team. We’ll be alright.

Headed to the Ballpark tonight to make sure the Twinkies don’t gain any ground.