A+ Pitching Staff, Hitting Explosion, Rockies Series
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00:00Quite a performance from Kato Marteiro, and you can't help but think
00:04Where did this come from?
00:06This guy had no pedigree like he was the next one
00:10His numbers in the minors were not good
00:14They weren't
00:16This guy had a high ERA in the minors. He just wasn't getting things done at all and now he gets fettered up and
00:24Hinged up and they work marvels with the pitching staff. It's another
00:30Example of look what just happened you watch this guy pitch
00:33He had such movement on his pitches those pitches move all over the place
00:38But they move in and out of the zone
00:40And you have to pay attention to that because if it's gonna be in a zone at some point it may stay in there or
00:46it's gonna come in and dip out it the movement is amazing on his pitches and
00:50He's the shining example of what you can see, but we already saw it with Jack Flaherty. We saw it last year with
00:57Oh
00:58Who's the pitcher that they ended up Michael Lorenzo Michael Lorenzo, and thank you. We saw with him
01:03We're seeing it a little bit with time added in a very small sample size, but Ty Madden was not good
01:11Era and Toledo was over seven and I Detroit it's two point five seven
01:18He had lowered that he was at over ten at Toledo, and then his last few starts
01:23He started pitching better, but wasn't lights out great
01:25He just pitched better, and he lowered it down to seven which is terrible
01:30But as you mentioned with the Tigers
01:32It's it's in the twos in in a couple of starts where he's getting whatever it is 14 innings pitched
01:37it's
01:38The job that that Hinch and Federer have done and the other pitching coaches they have because it's not just you know one guy
01:44It's been amazing. It's been absolutely amazing, and it just puts a big smile on your face, and you're like okay here
01:50We go maybe this is why Rhys Olsen is so good
01:53Maybe this is why he can you know get Casey Mize back on track, and why you're going to try
01:58Can you reinvent Kenta Maeda you know on the bullpen Kenta Maeda has been pretty good?
02:03He's had a couple of bad clunkers, but by and large. He's been very good out of the bullpen
02:09So I can't give enough kudos to what the Tigers staff has done with his pitchers. It's been great and
02:16We've documented how the young bats have been more timely hits than an accumulation of well of course
02:22They're winning look at chase young. He's hitting 350 look at I mean the only guy
02:26That's really come up here, and it's just lit it on fire since he's returned as Parker Meadows. Yeah, they are getting timely hits
02:32It's been a really good season for Cole Keith an entire season. He got better as the year went on
02:37there are been some timely hits from some other guys, but last night the bats exploded and
02:43The truth is they might have just gone through a stretch where they endured a five and five stretch of the schedule over ten games
02:51Where they did just enough to keep themselves in this thing and actually gain ground because the twins are playing so poorly
02:58Could they be about to get hot could they be about to come around could they be about to have a bunch of guys?
03:04you know start to string together some good games some good at bats and
03:09I mean last night
03:11Parker Meadows home run one nothing Riley green bases loaded triple in the second for nothing veerling an RBI single five nothing
03:19Kiter's throwing five and eight pitch innings in the middle all this yeah, and
03:23Getting double play balls like it's his job the Panetti call last night is maybe you can get another double play Paul boom there it is
03:30and it was a lineup it was a line out double play and it was
03:35But that but the Tigers now some of this admittedly
03:39Colorado's a bad team, and they look like a team that wants the season to be over don't care
03:43I don't care either
03:44Other teams got to bank these wins already
03:47It's our turn here in Detroit for our baseball team to bank these wins got to take care of business and dare
03:53I say I mean
03:54I don't even know if this is remotely debatable
03:56But Casey Mize is about to have the biggest start at his Tigers career because I say this all the time
04:02You know you can get into the hole
04:03Oh, it's not worth it or this guy isn't worth that
04:05What matters most and what counts times ten is do you help your team win important games?
04:12You know I went through that with a whole TJ Hackinson thing when people said oh, it's not worth
04:15It's not worth
04:16I said well
04:16Take a tight end that I said if he's making plays in playoff games to help you win the game. It's totally worth it and
04:24Like Jameer Gibbs
04:26Right can't take a running back that high until he's helping you win playoff games all that matters is that you win is Casey
04:32Mize gonna go out and pick up where kind of Montero left off and
04:37Go out and dominate tonight and give the Rockies no chance leading into school. We'll start on Thursday
04:45because Casey Mize I
04:47Don't care where you're drafted. Can you help your team win big games?
04:51I mean it'd be great if you live up to the billing
04:55But I don't let the billing change what's most important, which is help your team win big games Casey Mize tonight
05:03Great opportunity to help your team win a big game, and yeah, it's a big game. These are all big effing games
05:09I don't know how much it people heard Terry Schuble this morning
05:11But I mean they're aware of it, and they're it's so funny because they're so compartmentalized like AJ Hinch hasn't totally programmed
05:20Thinking about this stuff doesn't help us win today's game. You just got to win today's game, but whatever this is working
05:28It's it's working, and it's fun, and I'm I
05:31I'm concerned. There's a hiccup in the road
05:35They've got 14 players in the roster
05:39That are dealing or have dealt with an illness that they picked up on the west coast
05:45It's why Torkelson wasn't in the lineup last night
05:48Dingler Dingler wasn't in the lineup. He was supposed to start last night and
05:53You know please God let this
05:55Get through the clubhouse as quickly as possible and with as minimal effect as you can see because
06:02You do not want to be dealing with this when you've got a weekend series against a really good baseball team in Baltimore
06:09That could help to you know really kind of flip things around here, so that's my concern
06:15But you know just wash your hands. Don't touch it
06:18Hey
06:20Drink lots of OJ do all the things don't they don't know how about the air high-five whatever it's nice and stay