Home Opener GDT: Tigers @ Jays, Game 1/3 April 11, 2023 - 7:07 PM EDT

[BlueRocky]

place is packed

[THANOS]

Alek at 90-92

[Krylian]

Alek's velo is down.

 

Yup. Or a slow gun

[Spanky99]

Should be in the 3rd inning by now

 

4th, most are in the 4th right now.

[Grant77]

Alek's velo is down.

 

I think he's just learning to calm down a bit in these situations. He has a way of bringing up the velocity later in games.

[Solaxys]

Alek also does this typically no?

 

He starts 92 ish and then ramps up over the game.

[Spanky99]

Never thought about the fact that there would be new ground rules. I wonder what they are.

 

Good question?

[THANOS]

Alek also does this typically no?

 

He starts 92 ish and then ramps up over the game.

 

I did hear him say that Verlander told him that's one of his secrets to success, so maybe.

[The_DH]

No way that's 90-92. Must be the gun but 3 outs are 3 outs.

[Spanky99]

Alek also does this typically no?

 

He starts 92 ish and then ramps up over the game.

 

Thing is he averaged 91.7 last turn through, we'll see.

[DigitalRock]

Meatball central just missed them

[Solaxys]

He missed two meatballs, damn

[Jarry]

I think Detroit will win this series

[John_Havok]

One thing I really hate about hitters, when they come to bat just deciding before hand they wont be swinging, and watch crushable meatballs go right past them.

[Stangstag]

Bo stung that, damn

[Masterbather]

I think Detroit will win this series

 

I don't. So there!

[Deadpool]

All hard hit balls, 99.3, 101.2, 102.2

[Spanky99]

I picked this up a few days ago from a local auction. Thought it was kind of neat! [ATTACH=CONFIG]2458[/ATTACH]

 

That's cool man, they keep the bars open till close. Hahaha!!!

[THANOS]

One thing I really hate about hitters, when they come to bat just deciding before hand they wont be swinging, and watch crushable meatballs go right past them.

 

Yep, you could see that Vladdy made that decision after the quick outa before him.

[DigitalRock]

Look at hazel hanging with the rough crowd

[Stangstag]

All hard hit balls, 99.3, 101.2, 102.2

 

Yeah it was a quick inning but the pitcher wasn’t really fooling anyone

[Abomination]

I did hear him say that Verlander told him that's one of his secrets to success, so maybe.

 

Yeah, I remember Verlander often starting out in the low 90's. Late in the game when he started smelling something special, he ramped it up into triple digits.

[John_Havok]

Thing is he averaged 91.7 last turn through, we'll see.

 

Avg velo will be seem to be down though if you intentionally keep it on the low end (90-92)for the first half of your pitches, then ramp up (93-95) for the second half. That's just math, and will all depend on how soon/late he flips the switch

[Masterbather]

f***ing awesome!

[DigitalRock]

Hard hit ball central

[Solaxys]

HE DID It!@#!@#!

[Grant77]

Kiermaier you're a treat.

[EdwinsParrot]

KK lmao cant make this up

[BlueJays]

f***ING kiermaier

[John_Havok]

OMFG Kiermaier!