Is anybody watching the Twins/Tigers game?

[Fafnir]

Anyway, pretty exciting game, huh?  You don't see a team score in extra innings, only to have another team in the bottom of the inning to tie it again.

Was Inge hit by that pitch?  Does Detroit have a right to complain?

yea, ESPN had a slow motion vid, he's clearly hit (or at least his jersey is)

I don't know though, i feel for tigers fans, and they have an absolute gripe (if you see the replay, there is no question it tagged his jersey.) but i would have hated to see them end the game like that.

In any single game you can have a missed call.

In the end I feel bad for them, but not too bad. They had 162 games to show they were better than the Twins.

Plus, honestly that's not an easy call to see.

[star18]

Thomas didn't charge the ball hard enough.  You can see it in the replay. He ran after it like it was the 3rd inning in a game in mid-May.  Guarantee you if Shane Victorino is in that same exact position you will see what I am talking about.   That guy tries his hardest down to the last out.   Same thing with Orlando Cabrera.  Those guys are tough, they don't just go through the motions.   They have a sense of urgency in their game and they don't go down without a fight.  There is no sense of urgency in that play by Thomas. If he sprinted in and fumbled the ball he wouldn't have been massacred because as you can see the routine way to make that play wouldn't have worked either. 

False

Anybody can reply with the word false to what someone posts.  It means nothing.  You can't take 7 different comments and write false after it either it makes no sense because there is more than 1 topic discussed here.
You really think Cabrera & Victorino aren't tough ballplayers?
You really think those guys don't play with a sense of urgency?
Instead of just typing in the word false actually make statements to back it up.
Everything I posted was true.
Watch how fast the Twins sprint out of the dugout to congratulate Gomez, it was a lot harder and faster and with more energy than how Thomas went after the ball. 

[star18]

That's not a regular ground ball in the middle of mid-May.
It is the last play of a 163 game season and it sure didn't look like it. 

[Roy Hobbs]

I'm pretty sure this particular argument is dead.

[MBz]

That's not a regular ground ball in the middle of mid-May.
It is the last play of a 163 game season and it sure didn't look like it. 

Star, I would like you to call the radios, write to every baseball expert in America, and ask them what they thought about the play and how they would have done it.  Jeez, write Mike Schmidt himself and ask him if he would have barehanded it in the outfield, maybe one will respond and tell you how wrong you are on this matter.

[star18]

You don't have to necessarily have to barehand it, but you have to charge the ball harder.  I'm not intersted in what radios and experts think people like Mike & Mike don't know everything and I'm not claiming to either. Mike Schmidt is a different matter me and him will always agree.
It is a fact that the Twins players ran out of the dugout harder than how Thomas ran after the ball.  I'm not criticizing Thomas I never even heard of him before this game.   It doesn't mean he made a terrible play either.  He just didn't put in that extra quickness to get to and release the ball being it was the last play of the season.  Just watch the replay it says it all.  A few quick steps and then a slow up to get in front of the ball to field it cleanly, instead of gambling to just go right after the ball with no slow up. He has to gamble in that situation and he didn't he played it safe, and on that play you have to take a chance and do it differntly than a normal play and that wasn't done.

[star18]

If I would have called up every sports radio station in the world before the Magic/Cavs series everybody would have told me how wrong I was and how the Cavs are going to the Finals.   Most of the time people just do what everyone else says, they don't actually take the time to anylyze the situation, they just follow the crowd.