myhat85 except for the Sox - Yankees Alcs in 2004 :p

That great Tigers starting pitching got wasted by their bullpen. Same old story.

Jim Kennedy as a Detroit fan, this series hurt worse than the 2012 World Series. This was their year. But like u said, it was wasted by the bullpen.

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.

Totally agreed !!

agreed

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Agreed totally.

Excatly right!!!??? C'mon they fucked up not showing it thumbs down cuz of that

It was a fastball tho

@@zachluckenbach4787 The pitch was clocked at 86, that seems too slow for a fastball

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.

@@zachluckenbach4787 it was not a fastball. It moves armside and down, and is at 86mph (classic change up). Idk what you’re on about

@@zachluckenbach4787 also look at other Benoit highlights, his fastballs in the mid 90s

Insane play by Pedroia

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

The Red Sox were being dominated and big papy was the difference

Red Scorpion I’m so pissed. I was there at this game too had front row seats. I left at the 7th Inning thinking the game was over

So did I. I was so upset that I turned off the TV and went out for a jog. When I got back home I saw the score was tied.

Really? I think it was a Saturday night!

Jake B same

Jake B I was at that game too I left just before the grand slam happened I thought for sure the Tigers were going to win.

Ryan P ik

Because that was the highlight pretty easy to recognize

Bucholtz was either lights out or completely hittable. One of the most frustrating pitchers I have ever seen in a Sox uniform.

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🤣

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​@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...

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.

Mario M well it's hard to catch a ball when hands are right next to your glove

Our bullpen was fucking terrible

Scherzer requested to be taken out after the 7th, he told Leyland he had nothing left in the tank

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.