Runner on 2nd, no outs, just don't effing strike out!!! He strikes out.

Wild pitch moves him over and Iglesias plates him, tied.

pinch running victor at 1st with two outs already was dumb. No Victor for extras now. Not a wise move Brad. Lead off single sure, two outs already, stupid.

fkin tigers

Sign Romine to a life-time deal.

Ausmus is managing brilliantly in the 10th.

tigermud said:

pinch running victor at 1st with two outs already was dumb. No Victor for extras now. Not a wise move Brad. Lead off single sure, two outs already, stupid.

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But what are the chances that spot comes up with a chance to win it? :hehe:

talk about being over matched. Wilson never came close on 3 swinging strikes

gotime909 said:

But what are the chances that spot comes up with a chance to win it? :hehe:

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No connection between the PR and not having VM hitting here. Space-time continuum.

gotime909 said:

But what are the chances that spot comes up with a chance to win it? :hehe:

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well there ya have it, dumbass brad strikes again pushing the wrong buttons, dude needs to be fired already. what are they 6 game out now? pffssst terrible, terrible terrible terrible team..

Just a freaking terrible home team... starting with mamager.

Joba's ERA finally takes a hit. Maybe that clown with get released soon. His WHIP is horrible.

No wonder why he signed with us for peanuts

I mean I could understand it if it was a lead off single or a man on second with one out, but there were two outs already FFS! I just don't get that. It was pure stupidity. Yes it's true the pitching failed us today as well but good gawd man there we two outs already! what the hell is taking one of your best hitters out of the game for a speeder option at first going to accomplish when there are already two outs.

Yeah sure if Wilson gets a hit there and the Tigers tie it or win Brad looks like a genius, bad that didn't happen. That didn't even come close to happening in fact, Wilsons at bat was terrible. Kinsler before him not much better either, first pitch pop up after the guy had been struggling to throw strikes was pretty dumb also.

Whatever, season is a lost cause, team just isn't getting it done, it has to start with the lackadaisical manager making the wrong moves all the time not getting these guys to play with enough focus IMO, that kid the other day in Cleveland, Miggy looked bored out there. LOL well he probably was. And that might be the part of the problem, lack of consistent energy, taking after the manager. most teams do I guess.

JD has 37 homers in his last 162 games.

STREAKS AND STATS:

Ian Kinsler hit a home run in the first inning, just his second homer of the 2015 season.

J.D. Martinez's two-run home run in the fifth inning marked his 18th homer of the season, which paces the team. His eight home runs in the month of June are more than Miguel Cabrera (4) and Yoenis Cespedes (3) combined.

Victor Martinez has two doubles, one home run, seven RBI, and seven runs scored in six games since coming back from disabled list. He had two doubles, one home run, 15 RBI, and nine runs total before that.

Victor Martinez's three-hit day is his fifth of the season and his second since coming off the DL.

The Tigers grounded into three double plays on Thursday, marking the seventh time they've done so in a game this season. The third double play was the 76th of the season for the Tigers.

In his last 8 2/3 innings pitched (two games), Simon has given up 12 runs on 14 hits, issuing six walks and allowing three home runs. Of his five starts in June, Thursday's game was Simon's fourth start where he has allowed four or more runs in a game.

Simon's lone start where he held the opposition to fewer than four runs was on June 14 when Simon gave up three hits and no runs in five innings pitched.

It's just crazy that this team cannot win a game if they don't score first. Now 4-25 when they don't.

18-19 at home now ,,Fire this clown..

Windsor: Tigers are frustrating, but we can't look away

By now, it's easy to see the Tigers are not the team that started 11-2. But they also aren't the team that lost eight straight this month.

They are worse.

If you care about them anyway — because .500 baseball gets you nothing but frustration. They don't win enough to truly enjoy them, and they don't lose enough to move on with the rest of your summer.

So you keep coming back, only to watch a .159-hitting, bottom-of-the-order second baseman rip a hanging slider in the 10th inning for a three-run, tie-busting triple Thursday at Comerica Park. Off a reliever you wanted gone a season ago.

Thanks, Joba Chamberlain.

That's what you want to say to him, isn't it?

You want to flip off the television or turn off the radio and step out into the rest of your Thursday afternoon. But you can't and — against your better judgment — you hang around for the bottom of the 10th.

Because, you know, it's baseball.

But it only gets worse.


When Miguel Cabrera gets intentionally walked to load the bases and all the Tigers need is a measly hit to win, that's when you realize Victor Martinez isn't in the on-deck circle.

He's sitting on the bench. Martinez singled with two outs in the ninth, and manager Brad Ausmus pulled him for pinch-runner Josh Wilson in case Yoenis Cespedes doubled.

Cespedes popped out. Wilson jogged back to the dugout.

Wilson returned to the spotlight an inning later, now batting in Martinez's spot with a chance to win the game.

He struck out.

Ouch!

Hey, the team feels it, too. You could hear it after the latest demoralizing loss, 8-7, to the middling Chicago White Sox.

First in the pointed tone of Ausmus' postgame news conference — yanking Martinez for Wilson wasn't the only move that backfired, and then in the tone of some of the players.


"Let's have this conversation at the end of September and we'll see what happens," Chamberlain said after he was asked about the team's inconsistency.

Fair enough. It is a 162-game season.

Ian Kinsler showed frustration as well. When told that fans can't figure out the team's uneven performance, he said: "They're entitled to their opinion. If they want to root for someone else they think is more consistent, that is fine. You know we need as many as we can get."

Surely Kinsler wishes he phrased that a little differently. But his expression is a result of the team's play and reaction to its results.

Look, it wasn't just the call to pinch-run for Martinez that decided the game. Rajai Davis took an awkward angle on a ball to centerfield that led to two runs. The Tigers left 12 runners on base. And Kinsler couldn't lay down a crucial bunt in the sixth.

They had chances. They couldn't grab them.

It has been the story of the season.

Bruce Rondon returns to give a boost to the bullpen — he reached 101 m.p.h. and struck out the only two batters he faced. But Justin Verlander missed a start the day before.


Martinez gives a jolt to the lineup, but he isn't available with the bases loaded and the game on the line.

Ausmus figured the game would either be won or lost by then. The odds beat him. But, hey, managers gamble and lose all the time.

The issue here is that the team lacks something consistently dynamic.

Win two. Lose four. Win three. Lose two.

At some point, this percentage has to change.

Or the tone will get worse.

From everywhere.

http://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2015/06/25/detroit-tigers-record/29310315/

Sure is a train wreck unfolding .. 18-19 at home says it all..

"Let's have this conversation at the end of September and we'll see what happens," Chamberlain said after he was asked about the team's inconsistency.

This is a .500 team. It will finish 81-81. There is nothing "inconsistent" about this team; it is consistently average.