Comments on: Game 2009.132: Indians at Tigers

By: Kathy

Kathy — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:13:39 +0000

True. I was a little surprised to see the smaller crowd, but it’s not shocking considering thousands are losing UB here on out. So, some of those $5 tickets won’t be affordable. The weekends will fill up the stadium, though.

By: jason

jason — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:34:31 +0000

Empty are the sub-10,000 crowds that I saw at Tiger games years ago. You will know empty when the upper deck is closed to the public.

By: Keith (Mr. X)

Keith (Mr. X) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:47:13 +0000

25,000 is empty? Even I’ve been too busy to watch the games since school started last week. I don’t even have time to finish this thought.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:48:04 +0000

I was at the ball park tonight and it was kinda sad seeing it so empty on such a gorgeous night for a game. This game sure put the mantra “a win is a win” to the test with all those booted balls and bad throws by the Indians Infield. 4 errors in 1 game is pretty impressive but an ugly win still counts just the same.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:58:07 +0000

I agree with your statement though that the 06 team was much better.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:50:22 +0000

Wow, 609 runs. That will put them at about 750 for the season. Remember before the season last year when people were talking about them being a 1000 run team?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:39:04 +0000

“you just can’t win an American League playoff series with a 7-9 of Inge, Laird, and Everett. It just can’t be done.”

I wouldn’t go this far. To assume a bunch of guys can’t play out of their minds for a five game series, as has happened many times in previous playoff series, is silly.

“The 09 Tigers beating the 09 Yankees, even in a five game series, would rank as the greatest baseball playoff upset of my lifetime.”

If the series is set up for Verlander and Jackson to each pitch twice, and they both dominated, it wouldn’t be too surprising.

Even if not, there’s no reason to think the pitching couldn’t be as good as the ‘06 series. If it were, the offense wouldn’t even need to score like it did then (22 runs in 4 games, while giving up only 14).

By: Coleman

Coleman — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:24:22 +0000

Also the 7-9 hitters haven’t been the problem.

It’s the 9-5-2 hitters, which are our worst relative to the rest of the league, followed by the 3, 7, and 8 hitters (the “8 hitter” is benefitting from the early Inge binge, when he was hitting 8th).

By: Coleman

Coleman — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:12:43 +0000

Nobody in the Central is good enough to be mentioned in the same sentence as Moe, much less the genius Curly…our opponents are more like post-Curly Larry, Curly Joe, Shemp, and Emil Sitka.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:01:10 +0000

Well, because of their offensive numbers. But you’re right with that plus 17 I’d expect than to go 83-79

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:49:23 +0000

If you looked at this teams stats as raw data right now, why on earth would you expect them to go 76-86 on the season?

They currently rank 2nd in the American League in ERA and have outscored their opponents 609-592 on the season. It’s hard to go that far under .500 when you have good pitching and have outscored your opponents on the season.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:27:34 +0000

Well, I didn’t expect a team to run away with the division, but I didn’t think 85-86 wins would win it.

By: Anson

Anson — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:21:15 +0000

Whoa I get it Rodney has just been playing mind games with the other team all year. I feel somewhat relieved, granted its a false sense of relief but still…

By: billfer

billfer — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:02:23 +0000

But who did you think would really run away with the division? I didn’t really see a 90 win team in the bunch. I thought the Tigers would win about 86 games, but they’re not really going about it the way I thought they would. I thought they’d score more runs due to the top of the lineup (the bottom third was never going to produce much), I didn’t think Jackson would be this good, I thought Bonderman would contribute, I didn’t expect the pen to be this good. But I also saw a bunch of teams with as many flaws as the Tigers.

By: Mike F

Mike F — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:56:08 +0000

I remember that a lot of people had the Tigers in last place in the AL centeral and maybe the worst record in baseball as late as April. All in all, I would argue that making the playoffs (or even having the chance) is great, but in a short series, pitching and defence help more than offense. I’m not saying that the Tigers will win, but they have a chance; much like St. Louis had in 2006 when they won the weak division.