00:00Comerica Park is one enormous party right now and with three more outs it's
00:10going to go to 11. The tension, the excitement, the adrenaline, it's all
00:18manifesting and it's brewing. They're singing we will, we will rock you.
00:26The Tigers 30 wins in 40 odd games. Miguel Vargas is going to hit to lead it off.
00:39There's ball one. He's got to dial it in. Colt Keith at second base. Let's do what
00:47you always do, hit your spots, execute pitches.
00:51Two balls, no strikes. Tyler Holten has started nine games. He's finished 14 of them.
01:01He's saved eight of them. The Tigers playoff hopes are in his left hand and that is
01:08outside 3-0. He'll come all the way back. You've seen Tyler Holten do this before.
01:14Look at the look on his face, that little breath. Right back in. That's ball four.
01:23Four pitch walk. Action at the bullpen is Jason Foley. Deloach is the hitter. That is
01:32the first walk for Tigers pitching tonight. Right back at him. He'll get, he'll
01:39get back at it. Yeah. He'll get back at it. I was thinking the same thing. You were
01:43thinking, yeah, you know, he'll fall behind, get right back in the count. New hitter.
01:47Walked into A.J. Hitch's office at one point in spring training. He said, one of the bots
01:53here are great. And he said, we haven't introduced failure yet. And it was such a
02:00prescient thought because this team saw a lot of it in the middle of the year. Groundball
02:05to shortstop Sweeney, ranges over, throws behind Keith and let's see, they do give
02:11the out at second base. Did he tag that with his hand? It looked like it. It looked like
02:17he came back to tag it. Welcome to the game, Cole Keith. The throw is a little wide.
02:26Swing the hand around. Wow. I've never seen that. Watch his, yeah, his toe was off there
02:34when he got the ball. Sweeney's throw kind of was behind him and then look at him
02:39reach around. He just touches it with his hand. That's an outstanding effort by Cole
02:43Keith. And what instincts for somebody who just hasn't played a lot of second base.
02:46And got his hand out of there too that missed the cleat that was coming right after it too.
02:51Touched the bag and got it right out of there. One down. Benintendi. Close. He worked that
03:06sinker back in. He can get a ground ball. He can get to strike two. Two and one. He
03:19missed with the sinker. No worries. He can run that sinker again. That's the beauty of
03:24his little sinker. He can throw that at any count at any time. Even a fastball count,
03:29he can throw it. On the ground. Up the middle. It's Sweeney with a tag. With a throw. Safe at
03:38first. That was almost it. He had to slow everything down and try to tag this guy here
03:49and then when he goes to make the throw, it kind of short arms it. Torque picks him up.
03:53He just beat it. A.J. is going to come out and have a little visit. I think he might
03:58be going to go with Cole. Cole versus Vaughn. You never know who's going to be the guy when
04:09the wheel stops. What you do know is that every position on the wheel in this ride has
04:19been an absolute prize. Out of the bullpen. Off the bench. Whatever it might be. Tyler Holt
04:25gets the Tigers close to the finish line. Foley trying to bring the checkered flag next.
04:324-1 Tigers with the lead. Jason Foley is our wallside windows pitching change. He made his
04:38major league debut against the White Sox and hit two of the first three batters he faced. An
04:44undrafted free agent whose climb has been enormous to this moment to get the Tigers to the playoffs.
04:58Andrew Vaughn the batter. First pitch swing fouled away.
05:04Benintendi was going to take second base. He'll have to go back.
05:0798 at you. He hit a hundred yesterday. You know he wants to put him away with a strikeout
05:12and finish it just like he did yesterday's game.
05:23Fly ball. Right center field. Perez got it. The Tigers for the first time in 10 years.
05:37Are going to the playoffs. It's actually happening.
06:08Everyone else stood there like the house by the side of the road and let the Tigers go by.
06:18That they did.
06:37Fuck yeah. Here comes Skip out to greet his team.
07:07This team just never quit guys. Never. I've seen some excited celebrations.
07:22The emotion these guys have right now. What they've done. What they've accomplished.
07:29This is the most improbable thing I've ever seen come to fruition.
07:32It might be the most improbable.
07:35The thing that's so great about this is it's 26 guys 28 right now and each and every one of them
07:42had a factor in them going to the playoffs. It's not a team carried by one or two position players
07:49one or two pitchers. It's a roster that everybody is used and everybody continues to be used
07:56to be used and they're going to be very very difficult.
08:11How'd you get a hug from Jordan?
08:14He'll put you down on the ground. There's a lot of vicious hugs going on right now.
08:19You know in sports so often the word unbelievable gets thrown around.
08:23But when your playoff odds with a month and a half left are less than one percent.
08:31It's truly unbelievable. Truly. You gave away veterans not for nothing but veterans left this
08:41You gave away veterans not for nothing but veterans left this clubhouse at the trade deadline.
08:50This isn't supposed to happen.
08:53They played perfect baseball. I mean for a long time. For a long time. That's a month and a half
08:59of just getting after it at a level that is emotionally physically and mentally draining.
09:05And these guys endured it challenge after challenge after challenge after challenge.
09:09They stepped up to the plate. Every day they came in they get knocked down with a hook.
09:14They got back up. They get hit. Jab. They get back in the fight.
09:19But they didn't quit. They never quit when that when the veterans were traded off. What did AJ say?
09:27Hey let's get better today. I gotta take these young kids and get better today.
09:39you
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