00:00promise some tiger talk and we got sidetracked let me get to it here in a second look the last
00:05caller i'm you know if you want the bench utilize more that's that's fine this reminds me a little
00:11bit of early dick vital when the brackets came out and vital would scream and yell about the
00:16teams that didn't get in but he never offer up who should be kicked out like he'd give you two
00:23or three teams that got robbed for not making the march madness but he would never say at the
00:29expense of who so you gotta you gotta you gotta take minutes away from somebody and you know you
00:37could make the case i can't imagine that tolu smith without the impact no matter how many minutes he
00:43was given that jalen duran would have or would potentially have duran can still go give you 20
00:50i doubt tolu smith would give you 20 with those minutes
00:55but he wanted guys who aren't playing at all to play tolu smith is not going to play unless
01:00something terrible happens like foul trouble or injury but the bench may be used different this
01:05series like every series is different every during the series the rotation gets changed because you're
01:10finding out what works and doesn't work in real time and over time you start to see like oh this
01:16is
01:16how they're going to play us we got to change it in game three or whatever this is how they're
01:20doing
01:20and now we got to change his game four so the rotation might look different we might see more
01:24ron holland this series but we're not seeing tolu smith well we and well the names he suggested with
01:29the names he suggested were marcus sasser tolu smith and i think holland was the other one
01:35marcus sasser you know why aren't they playing him if you asked jb bickerstaff i'm suspicious that
01:43he would have a bunch of reasons why he's not playing him can he shoot yes he's a good shooter
01:48well
01:49but are they going to lose a bunch of other stuff by playing him yesterday was a closeout game and
01:55they needed they treated as such right you had you're starting five and then you had two major
02:02contributors off the bench in terms of minutes and then isaiah stewart was the third one who had
02:06seven minutes and then he had a handful of guys that came in at the end and got a minute
02:09right
02:09but they really just used seven guys in the rotation with a little bit of isaiah stewart
02:15it's a closeout game will things be different tomorrow game one of a seven game series where
02:21you're literally playing every other day it might be different and maybe that's part of the reason
02:26why they had a different rotation in the first round because they had more time between you know
02:31a couple of these games to start the series but here it's every other day you just got done with
02:35a
02:35seven game series you're going to want to keep guys as fresh as possible maybe they do go a little
02:40bit longer in the rotation though i doubt tolu smith is part of it but you might see more paul
02:44reed and
02:45maybe you see ron holland because of his defensive prowess all right gator tigers uh nice win yesterday
02:51pitching chaos versus jack lighter this this is a matchup that heavily favors jack lighter and yet
02:57the pitching chaos crew got it done lighter was one two three one two three one two three one two
03:03three
03:03through 44 pitches and four innings of baseball and then a walk and a bomb and that was actually enough
03:10to win the game a home run coming from spencer torkelson and when torque was struggling and
03:15people would call us and say i don't understand why he's still being put in the lineup the answer
03:19was probably because they think he has more success he has more potential to have success than any other
03:25alternative well finally we're seeing it it took a minute but boy is torque on a tear yeah he's hit
03:30like six home runs in his last i don't know 12 games whatever it is yeah uh he got incredibly
03:36hot with
03:36the five straight which tied a tiger's record and then cooled off a little bit but was still
03:40finding himself on base and then hits the home run last night and it was a big one obviously a
03:45game
03:45winning shot that proved to be like that they're getting that production out of him the the other
03:52upside you're looking at is riley green and what he has done lately riley green has really done a nice
03:58job of getting on base and it's not it's not just with with hits and something he hasn't done a
04:06whole
04:06lot of in the past was was drawing walks but he's starting to draw some walks now and his on
04:10base
04:11percentage is now over 100 points higher than his batting average it's up to 393 he's got 21 walks in
04:17the 35 games to go with the 39 strikeouts strikeouts have calmed down walks have gone up and now you're
04:24seeing some really good production out of him he's also hitting 290 on the season good to see that
04:29from riley green and then of course there's you know mr everything and kevin mcgonigal who's been
04:34fantastic i think he's only had three games this year we have hasn't been on base and a couple rbi
04:39hits
04:39yesterday yeah and it just continues to do really well he's got an on-base percentage over 400 he was
04:45just named the american league rookie of the month uh and he's a over a two war player for those
04:52who like
04:52the analytics it's an amazing start to his career he never looks overmatched no you know sometimes he
05:00gets a little excited to swing the first pitch but usually he hammers it and he had some loud outs
05:08i
05:08think went oh for on uh the game on saturday but he drove the ball like to left center field
05:13damn near
05:14hit a home run had another one where an outfield the outfield just had to really chase it down
05:18it made a nice play on it uh every game is it those are must-see at bats watching kevin
05:25mcgonigal i
05:25love watching that guy hit now there was a little bit yesterday where it felt like the flares for
05:30detroit were dropping andrew mccutcheon had a great catch but evan carter in center field dove for two
05:36balls that were just out of his reach matt veerling in center field for detroit dove for one that he
05:41was
05:42able to catch like that was one of those games where riley green did too which yeah had it and
05:46then he
05:46knocked it out with his other hand yeah the little bloopers and and they were getting some a little
05:51bit of puck luck i guess if you will and uh and that's okay over the course of seasons that's
05:57going
05:57to happen but um they deserved it and uh still in a first place tie here is boston comes to
06:03town one
06:04of the worst teams in baseball uh at least they are have been so far already made a change at
06:09manager
06:10and uh we'll see i mean the tigers last week i love their who are they playing uh i love
06:17the series
06:18because of pitching matchups favored detroit and it didn't work out that way at all because they lost
06:22the first two games of the series but uh bottom line is i like the mat pitching matchups again scuba
06:29going tonight for detroit against a red sox team that has really been struggling yeah and red sox bring
06:34up peyton toll he's a left-hander so you're gonna have a heavy right-handed hitting lineup
06:38uh for for the tigers um but i always like these matchups against the lefties because
06:45it's a test for the left-handed batters that are going to stay in the lineup to show that they
06:49can
06:49they deserve to be there so mcgonagall will be there riley green is more i pretty sure he's going
06:56to play but will colt keith get in a bat or not but the one thing that aj has done
07:01and he hasn't been
07:02afraid to do it is go quickly to the bench in a pinch hit situation and he's pushed the right
07:10buttons a lot already this year lately at the beginning of the year it felt like a lot of his
07:15righty lefty and his matchup stuff wasn't working and it got a lot of second guessing and we said well
07:20of course this season if you get enough of them wrong it can cost you your job but it feels
07:24like
07:24it's working now a lot more than it was yeah um interesting they they're bringing up zach short
07:30uh just insurance in the shortstop which shouldn't be totally surprising given that you know well
07:37javi baez got hurt they only had one real shortstop on the roster which is kevin mcgonagall um and how
07:44you lee would have been the emergency shortstop in case something happened there so uh i think it's
07:49just a holding place until zach mckinstry is ready to come back and he's already started his rehab
07:53assignment so maybe mckinstry comes back by the end of the week we'll see two four eight five three nine
07:5897 97 good weekend for the tigers tons of feedback coming in and continues to come in
08:03on our detroit pistons what a uh what a come from behind series win as uh detroit is still fired
08:09up
08:10over that and yeah we get it another hopefully couple weeks here of uh nba playoff basketball
08:15with the uh pistons set to take on cleveland starting tomorrow night feedback coming in from
08:22an unnamed texter let's turn this series into the james harden show try and neutralize mobley and
08:29keep a saw on mitchell and let harden play one-on-one as much as you can that's from an
08:33unnamed texter
08:35i could see max strose uh being an absolute pest in this series getting technical fouls on people
08:42that led to an interesting conversation in the uh office today kang you and evan were predicting i was
08:47going to hate him yeah evan said that uh kang what do you what are the odds like max strose
08:51is going to
08:52be the guy that doug is going to be totally annoyed with during this series and i said
08:55that's a good call it's not bad with call over the course of seven game series you get annoyed with
09:00somebody oh that's part of playoffs any sport i got really annoyed with desmond bain did he play
09:07yesterday i know he did but was he neutralized or what he picked up some early foul trouble and
09:14shut him down yeah not the same yeah what was his shot attempts well he actually he shot it was
09:21five
09:21of ten from the field how many threes did he get off three of five from three i'm gonna bet
09:26that's by
09:27far the lowest amount of three-point shots he got off i think you're probably right he ended up with
09:3116 points but they were the quietest 16 points you ever saw um he wasn't he didn't fall for the
09:39foul baiting or any of that crap uh it was it was the paulo banquero show that's all they had
09:44and guys like jamal kane or anthony black were just they completely disappeared yeah banquero was just
09:52it was you're right it was banquero and and nobody else but the the quietest 16 ever from bain
09:57my prediction for this series against the calves is the player will be focusing on is the pistons fans
10:03will miss schroeder they'll see dennis schroeder do something and they'll be like ah i wish he was on
10:08our team again yeah i mean in reality it's a it's a schroeder for jenkins trade right and and so
10:13you know maybe in the end we'll be happy we got our guy but he's a veteran that played well
10:19for the
10:19pistons when he was here that was yes by far the maybe not by far is eight seven nine ten
10:26ten nine
10:27and five those are three point shots from bain in this series five in the deciding game i got a
10:32guy i
10:32don't like for cleveland already yeah i'm gonna get to that on 102 it's karshan anderson open lines
10:36champion chump let's get him in here on 97 one
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