Tigers have now won 7/8 to go from 65-78 to 72-79

K.Montero pitches tmrw afternoon vs Blue Jays (-2) in a critical game for TOR

Max Scherzer looking to avoid getting battered like 7+ ERA starter Lorenzen on Tuesday...his last outing did not go well to say the least

The White Sox should see Framber Valdez LHP Thurs

then Tigers will have to decide whether or not to use another LHP in AAAA/spot starter Andrew Sears (LHP)

that could push Jobe and Melton back to Sat and Sunday

otherwise, it would be

Valdez, Jobe RHP, Melton RHP, Drew Anderson RHP...which is their new regular five man rotation after trading Skubal and Mize away

knowing Hinch, expect they will go to the two lefties to keep White Sox back on their heels and Venable running out crazy lineups

Sears gave up 3 in 4+ to Royals on Saturday in first appearance back from AAA

Of course the tigers get hot right when we are about to play them in 4

baseballsavant.com

Statcast Expected wOBA, xBA, xSLG

Baseball Savant

Expected outcome stat is interesting...

Vargas 8th in mlb.

Antonacci second on the White Sox...then Murakami and Grichuk.

Kolson way way down near the bottom for the team.

Didn't anticipate Braden actually being ahead of Peters.

And Meidroth was pretty low as well.

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by caulfield12

7 minutes ago, AntMan26 said:

Of course the tigers get hot right when we are about to play them in 4

I think we'll be repeating all off season long that they were just one well executed Taylor slider/curve against Rocchio away from an almost insurmountable in reality 3 1/2 game lead (considering CLE had to finish a game ahead due to Sox 7-5 season series lead with one to go) with just 10-11 games remaining on the schedule for both teams.

Didn't expect anything in the postseason...they're clearly not close to TB NY or Boston in talent...but just feels like a terribly cruel twist of fate after leading the division for months and months.

Ofc, all White Sox fans shpuld be used to this by now...at least those of us in our 50s.

2005/08 really are the pretty much the lone exceptions.