Detroit, MI
After 13 innings, Detroit Tigers drop heartbreaker to Oakland Athletics, 7-6
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Detroit Tigers left-hander Tarik Skubal, the frontrunner to win the American League Cy Young Award, didn’t add another win to his candidacy as the best pitcher in baseball.
Even worse, the Tigers failed to add another win to their AL wild-card race in a heartbreaking loss to the Oakland Athletics.
The Tigers lost, 7-6, to the Athletics on Friday in the first of three games in the series at Oakland Coliseum. Skubal surrendered two runs and couldn’t complete the sixth inning, but the Tigers forced extra innings — only to lose in the 13th on a walk-off single by Seth Brown.
“That was a winnable game,” manager A.J. Hinch told reporters in Oakland. “We kind of did it to ourselves in a couple of situations. Games get a little bit crazy here, and with extra innings and all the extra runners and things like that. It’s a tough loss.”
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For the first time since Aug. 2, the Tigers (71-71) lost a game in which Skubal started to snap a streak of five wins in Skubal outings. The loss sends the Tigers to 5½ out of the third and final American League wild-card spot, with 20 games remaining.
This one took four rounds of extra innings.
In the 10th inning, the Tigers and Athletics traded runs, with Colt Keith’s RBI single off right-handed reliever Mason Miller with two outs in the top half and Brent Rooker’s RBI double off right-handed reliever Brenan Hanifee in the bottom half.
In the 11th inning, the Tigers and Athletics traded two runs, with Parker Meadows’ two-run double off left-handed reliever Scott Alexander with two outs in the top half and Brown’s two-run home run off right-handed reliever Shelby Miller in the bottom half.
Brown, a left-handed pinch-hitter, crushed Miller’s middle-middle slider with two strikes.
“It didn’t change a lot because we take Shelby on lefties the way he’s pitched against lefties,” Hinch said. “I know he’s had a couple of tough at-bats, but generally speaking, he’s been really tough there. Just one pitch to Brown, and the game continued.”
In the 12th inning, the Tigers and Athletics traded runs with Riley Greene’s RBI single off right-handed reliever Grant Holman in the top half and Rooker’s sacrifice fly off right-handed reliever Beau Brieske in the bottom half.
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The teams were tied, 6-6, entering the 13th inning.
Meadows, who hit a go-ahead grand slam in the ninth inning of Friday’s win over the San Diego Padres, struck out swinging with the bases loaded and two outs in the top of the 13th.
The Meadows strikeout accounted for Holman’s only strikeout in two innings of work.
The Athletics didn’t miss in their opportunity with one out in the bottom of the 13th, as Brown turned on an inside fastball from Brieske for a walk-off single down the first-base line and into right field, driving in the free runner from second base.
It was Brown’s second big hit in three innings.
In the loss, the Tigers used 13 position players and eight pitchers.
Meadows went 2-for-7 with four strikeouts; Greene went 4-for-6 with one strikeout; Keith went 1-for-6 with two strikeouts; Spencer Torkelson went 0-for-6 with four strikeouts; Trey Sweeney went 0-for-6 with two strikeouts; Jake Rogers went 0-for-4 with two walks and two strikeouts. Torkelson has struck out 26 times in 59 trips to the plate — a 48% strikeout rate — in his past 14 games.
The game lasted three hours, 34 minutes.
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Skubal shut down the Athletics until the fourth inning, when Lawrence Butler and Rooker hit back-to-back singles. With one out, JJ Bleday hit a ball off the wall in center field, but for a moment, it looked like Meadows caught the ball.
The moment of uncertainty was enough to fool the Athletics, with Butler stopping at third base, Bleday stopping at second base and Rooker getting caught in between them. The Tigers tagged out Rooker in between the bases.
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Skubal then stranded two runners in scoring position by striking out ex-Tiger Tyler Nevin, dropping in an 89.6 mph changeup at the bottom rail of the strike zone. When Nevin whiffed, Skubal unleashed a scream in celebration as he backpedaled off the mound.
The Athletics, though, finally scored in the fifth inning, as Zack Gelof doubled with one out and Jacob Wilson tripled with two outs. On the triple, the ball dropped inside the foul line in right field, just beyond the reach of a sliding Kerry Carpenter’s glove, to tie the game, 1-1.
In the sixth inning, ex-Tiger Daz Cameron put the Athletics ahead, 2-1, when he hit an RBI single off Skubal’s sinker — located middle-middle — with two strikes and two outs. The single from Cameron chased Skubal from his outing after 96 pitches.
Skubal has a 2.53 ERA in 28 starts.
Facing the Athletics, Skubal allowed two runs on nine hits with zero walks and seven strikeouts. The 27-year-old generated 18 whiffs on 48 swings, including 11 whiffs on 18 swings against his changeup.
Before extra innings
The Tigers scored one run apiece in the fifth and seventh innings.
In the fifth, three singles in a row from Meadows, Jace Jung and Greene chased right-hander Mitch Spence from his start. The single from Greene put the Tigers ahead, 1-0.
In the seventh, Greene — a left-handed hitter — ripped a two-strike, two-out double off left-handed reliever Hogan Harris. The Tigers pinch-hit Matt Vierling for Carpenter, but the Athletics countered by bringing in right-handed reliever Michel Otañez.
The decision backfired.
Otañez threw two wild pitches within his first six pitches to Vierling. The first wild pitch allowed Greene to advance to third, and the second wild pitch allowed Greene to score for a 2-2 tie.
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Detroit, MI
Detroit re-launches ID program to aid vulnerable residents
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DETROIT – From doctor’s visits to opening bank accounts, photo IDs have become a necessity.
After two years, the city is re-launching a Detroit program that helps some of our most vulnerable.
The Detroit ID Card program can help break barriers for the unhoused and segments of the immigrant population.
All you need is a utility bill or rental agreement or something that verifies your identity.
If you’re unhoused but belong to a shelter, the shelter can provide proof of address.
The Detroit ID card program is connected to three credit unions, so people can open accounts. Spanish and other translation services are also available.
The program was launched in 2016 and paused during the pandemic. After re-starting, it was halted again in 2022 due to hacking concerns.
The city says it’s working with a new vendor and that your data is safe.
You can get a photo ID starting on Saturday (Sept. 7) at the Detroit Health Department’s 3rd annual block party in the 100 block of Mack Avenue, or you can visit the Detroit Health Department (100 Mack Avenue) or the Patton Recreation Center (2301 Woodmere) during normal business hours.
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Detroit, MI
Connor Stalions is new interim head coach at Detroit Mumford
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The story of Connor Stalions continues to have its twists and turns.
Stalions, the former Michigan staffer who is the focus of an NCAA investigation concerning an alleged sign-stealing scheme involving UM, has been a volunteer assistant coach at Detroit Mumford High School.
Now, Stalions has been elevated to interim head coach, after William McMichael suffered a minor stroke last week, according to Jay Alexander, executive director of athletics at Detroit Public Schools Community District.
Stalions has been working as Mumford’s defensive coordinator, but he’ll have some extra responsibilities while McMichael recovers.
Mumford (0-1) faces Flint Hamady on Friday, after it lost its opening game, 47-6, last week to Redford Thurston.
Detroit, MI
Welcome to Detroit, Lions fans — take your trash when you go
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“The bums will pick it up.”
I’ve been fuming about this since December, when a playoff-crazed Lions tailgater chose those words to explain why his family was leaving their trash on a grassy strip of public property close to my home.
My wife and I live on the edge of downtown, less than a mile from Ford Field. We first moved to Detroit in 2006, leaving twice for career opportunities, but always coming back, and always living in the vicinity of downtown.
We love the easy access to concerts, sports and events, and feel joyful about the bigger, steadier crowds of people who live, work and visit the core city. It’s just fun.
Sometimes, when the Red Wings or Pistons are at home, I go for a run along Woodward just to immerse myself a little bit in the pregame excitement. I have, in particular, long enjoyed the loyalty and enthusiasm of you long-suffering Lions supporters, and am happy for you now, despite being a lifelong Chiefs fan.
These crowds make great people watching, and it’s easy to get caught up in the spirit.
As the new Lions season begins, I welcome tailgaters back to our neighborhood. I’m merely asking that you treat it as you would like your own neighborhood treated.
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The hard work of being poor
Living where I do, fans and concertgoers aren’t the only people I watch. I also see how difficult it is to be poor — much more work than simply picking up after yourself ― to wait for the bus in predawn cold or midsummer heat, to pull a little cart home from the grocery store over icy streets, to curl up on a corner of sidewalk to get some sleep.
I don’t judge. My birth family was far from well off, and some of us, including me, have experienced the ravages of substance abuse. In the “bums” our Lions fan expects to clean up his mess, I see people still awaiting the unbidden grace that lifted me.
When you are poor, for any reason, the heat is more oppressive, the cold is colder, the distance is farther.
So when I see people trudging to work in the dark, I think about how much work it is to be poor, just as when I see folks schleping empty cans and bottles for return. And that does happen, so at one level, the tailgater was right – the bottle bill works as an incentive that cuts down on at least some kinds of litter.
But that doesn’t make it right to leave a mess — which included this family’s paper plates and napkins — because you think Detroit is your garbage dump, or that the less fortunate should clean up after you.
It may be that this Lions fan — I think this is common — doesn’t come into the city very often, and has an outdated conception. When I moved here in 2006, just after Super Bowl XL led to a hurried makeup job, litter was common. Streetlights were out. Bike riding was frustrating because of broken glass in the street.
That’s changed for a variety of reasons, but it boils down to investment and sustained effort, along with a much-needed step-up in city services that made it possible for longtime residents to hold the line against disrepair.
No city is pristine, but significant parts of Detroit proper are undeniably neater than they were 20 years ago.
That Detroit of two decades ago showed its poverty more sharply wasn’t an excuse to act like a pig back then, and it sure isn’t an excuse for littering now.
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Let’s not disrespect Detroit
I, perhaps unfairly, assume our littering Lion lives in some nondescript suburb that would barely exist were it not for the brawn and innovation of Detroit. It’s Dee-troit basketball, not Birmingham Hoops. He cheers for the Detroit Lions, not the Warren Kittens or the Southfield Whatevers, and no doubt takes pride in saying he is a Detroit Lions fan now that they are succeeding.
So he and his family — he had elementary-school age children with him — would do well to be polite visitors. I merely ask that they pick up after themselves, and maybe not teach the next generation to disrespect Detroit.
I’ll do the same if I ever have reason to park my vehicle on some suburban street, pitch a tent and have a little party.
Randy Essex is an editor at the Detroit Free Press. Submit a letter to the editor at freep.com/letters and we may publish it online and in print.
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