Aquila tigers really had a amazing rotation as well as great hitters but u could just feel it being the Sox season with the Boston marathon bombings but the tigers had an incredible team that they don’t have today
Preeeetty shocking how far back 2013 looks now, with Cabrera having a near back to back triple crown year and Scherzer not becoming a living legend yet.
9:35 - Look at Papi's face. It says "Go ahead and throw me that changeup, I'll be waiting for it..." Knew it was coming because Benoit had threw it earlier in the season and made Papi look bad. "First pitch, third pitch, fifth pitch, whatever. I knew it was coming and would be ready for it." Excerpt from his biography
Benoit was a weak closer. Leyland should have let Max pitch a complete game. That grand slam doesn't happen if he does. I know, shoulda woulda coulda but the Tigers needed a closer. They didn't have anyone and that's on Dombrowski period. That and the Boston Strong mojo is the reason they lost this Series.
Tigers fan here, this game is probably the most exciting and heartbreaking game/series (yes even more than getting swept in the World Series) ive ever watched. Up 5-0 about to be 2-0 going back to detroit with all the momentum, instead it becomes a dogfight every single game. Tigers bullpen had no business being in the postseason if I’m not mistaken the bullpen gave up more runs in the series than the starters combined
As a Sox fan yeah this was a great series. The Red Sox were not as talented as the Tigers, especially from a starting pitching perspective.. But The Red Sox had good gameplans. Every game, the goal was to work and grind out every at bat to get the pitch count up and get the Tigers phenomenal starters out of the game to get to the Detroit bullpen. It's hard to look back at this team because it reminds me that ownership decided to pay David Price $200 million dollars instead of re-sign Jon Lester.
@@waynetables6414which ultimately netted you guys another world Series. I don't see the issue lmao? Sox don't win that world series in 18 without Price.
@@JTmakesfunofdiabled-hs9kh Jon Lester was much cheaper and would have served the same role. He was a big-game pitcher with a lower ERA and more wins that year you are referring to. And Jon came up in the system and had 2 rings with Red Sox, he overcame Cancer with the Red Sox at a time my family was going through similar stuff.. it's not just about X's and O's. The Red Sox ownership treats human beings like dots on a graph. The current team (post firing Dombrowski) has no leaders, no continuity, and are being run on a shoestring budget while the owners focus on their other projects. They are the second most valuable team in baseball and they have like the 15th highest payroll. I haven't watched a single game this year, i'm not going to invest my time in a team that refuses to invest their money and charges the highest ticket prices in the league. The owners hired a scapegoat GM to be the fall-guy for their Boston Devil Rays operation they are currently running and ownership is completely resting on their laurels
Being from Boston, I love the sox. I've never missed a season game in the over 30 years And Max scherzer pitched one of the best games I've seen not just against the Sox but of all time his stuff was electric that night But we had david Ortiz, and he saved us again and again What a great series
@Jimmy-jp9wm he's right though, if you're laughing then you didn't watch the series or realize how great that Tigers rotation was, as a Sox fan I knew if we didn't win that game it was over heading back to Detroit down 0-2...
so us being retired 123 in the 7th is highlight worthy but not loading the bases in front of ortiz. clutch hit by pedroia with 2 outs to bring papi to the plate.
Bucholtz was that classic: “great stuff, couldn’t execute a game plan” type guy. The biggest problem with young pitchers today: all throw hard and lack the true feel for big games and the rhythm it requires.
Main reason for that is the way teams scout imo. You're more likely to get noticed if you light up a radar gun rather than showing off great command or otherwise. When controlled, velo is king, and that's what teams go for
@@bubblerman preaching to the choir Brian. It blows my mind every year when MLB teams take high school pitchers in the top 3 round every year. Most of them never throwing in a big game or even a series in their life. You have big time college pitchers who understand the grind and have thrown in high leverage moments going later in the draft over kids who still live with their parents🤣
You can't win without a bullpen. With their lineup and rotation the if the tigers sorted out their shit bullpen they would have won at least 3 titles last decade.
(0 0), (1 0), (0 0), (0 0), (0 0), (4 1), (0 0), (0 4), (0 1)!!!! I think seeing the Tigers go up by 5 that quick woke the Red Sox up. Plus it also show how great the Sox bullpens compared to the Tigers were. Plus it also shows that having a great starter isn't good enough if your bullpen can't keep it up.
Back in the day Max would have finished the game & the Tigers would have been 2 up going to Detroit. The "Glory" of the starting pitcher going all the way has been lost.
Jerry Shunk Not necessarily. If the pitcher is on his A game and it’s late in the season and the team is fighting for a playoff spot most managers will leave their starters in the game longer.
@@redsox1935 Back in the day, however, the starting pitchers were generally left in the game unless they "Needed," relief! The managers didn't use a starter for a planned 6 innings & then automatically bring in relief to finish the game. That strategy started around the 70's.
Why didn’t the highlight have how the bases got loaded for the BoSox in that bottom 8th?! That was definitely needed to be shown in this highlight to even give Ortiz the chance at that grand slam.
This game was so frustrating to watch. It looked like the Sox would be down 0-2 going to Detroit. They couldn't hit a lick off Tigers pitching and then....... 9:48 :) :) :)
Ganar ese juego le representó ganar el campeonato ya que si perdian,irian 0-2 a detroit.. Ese fue el juego mas importante de ese equipo.. lo levantó como "lazaro".. no ganaban ese serie si perdian ese juego
boy prince fielder fucked the 9th up... first letting the ball pass him to get Gomes to 2nd and missing that foul fly when u got the biggest glove on the field smh
why does Jim Leyland always look so fucking pissed lol and I'm a tiger fan so I see him a lot, or did see him a lot because he retired but you get the point damnit
One of the most heartbreaking, if not the most heartbreaking Tiger loss in their history. The Boston strong marathon bombing mojo won this series. All of America, except for Detroit fans, were pulling for the Red Sox. I sure wish Leyland left Scherzer in the game. No fan interference on that Fielder foul ball play in the 9th? The Umpires didn't even talk about it? That's a game changer right there. Unbelievable. They umps were probably all Red Sox fans. Haha! Just kidding. I'm a little tired of the Red Sox fans and the east coast media bias in general. Red Sox got more attention for losing the 1967 Series than the Tigers did for winning the 68 Series. Ortiz hit more homers against the Tigers than any other team. Why? Dombrowski never got them a decent closer period. Funny how Dombrowski goes to the Red Sox and gets a closer by the name of Greg Kimbrall. If he did that for the Tigers they would have won a couple of World Series, if not more. The Tigers will be back one day and it'll be sweet. Hopefully they'll get to play another ALCS in Boston and get some silence Red Sox Nation. You win you win, you lose you lose. Red Sox deserved the Series win. We'll always have 35, 45, 68, and 84 Tiger fans!! R.I.P. Mr. Kaline.
You're not alone in being tired of the nonstop media adulation of the Red Sox. Tigers seemed to be snake bit in big series in recent years. Would love to see them win the series again one of these years.
Dombrowski was like a hired assassin the way Red Sox ownership used him. The reason they were able to add Craig Kimbrel was that they traded 4 highly touted prospects to get him. Dombrowski did the same thing to acquire Chris Sale, he traded Yoan Moncada and Michael Kopech. The Red Sox had the best farm system in MLB when Dombrowski was hired and they had one of the worst farm systems in baseball when he was fired. Ultimately, as a Sox fan I feel bad for the way it played out because Dombrowski did exactly what he was hired to do. He won a World Series, raided the farm system, spent a ton of money, and made some great trades. He acquired Nathan Eovaldi for basically nothing and Nate has has been arguably the most important player on the Red Sox for years. My guess would be that Dombrowski was well aware the bullpen was awful in 2013 but he just didn't have the resources to do anything about it. Most teams don't allot a ton of resources to acquire a closer because the best ones cost a lot, and most closers have a short shelf life. Most teams find a closer from within their system. Also, baseball was a much different sport even just 10 years ago. Starting pitchers actually pitched past the 5th inning back then and you didn't have all these teams with loaded bullpens and pitching changes every two batters.
