Even in MLB The Show 24 now?

Welp. Time to redeem the Tigers... AGAIN! They got swept at home by their rival, Cleveland Guardians at the worst possible fucking time. So now I have to pick up their fucking slack and get some damn wins here.

Starting with game 1, it's a clean top 1st and in the bottom 1st, while I do get double played, Kerry Carpenter hits a solo shot to left field to get the Tigers on the board first! Alright! Good start! Top 2nd gets chippy with Josh Naylor and Daniel Schneemann getting on. But they don't score. Bottom 2nd is a 1-2-3 inning. Literally. Nothing doing in the top and bottom 3rd. Jose Ramirez gets a lead off double in top 4th and for some reason a fucking dumb ass mental error lets Lane Thomas get 1st. And then a wild pitch, probably the first time that's ever happened lets the runner advance. Andres Gimenez flies out but unfortunately Schneemann hits a bomb and it's 3-1 Cleveland. Well that sucks. I do end it there. But now I am trailing. Parker Meadows hits a lead off double and Kerry Carpenter flies out. And for some fucking reason I thought I didn't have much time as I thought to tag to 3rd so I started going back. That was a horrible idea and Meadows is out. Fuck me. Riley Greene gets a single and that's all for the inning. Brayan Rocchio gets a lead off triple in top 5th. Ain't that nice. Can I stop him from scoring? Absolutely not. With Steven Kwan at the plate, he hits a soft chopper so I try to throw it to home just for that to be late as fuck. And Kwan is safe at 1st. Score is now 4-1 Guardians. Cool. Kyle Manzardo strikes out. Jose Ramirez gets a single. Josh Naylor just flies out. Riley Greene had just enough room. And then Lane Thomas its the ball into a wide open right field and it's 6-1 Guardians. This is very quickly getting out of hand. And a Andres Gimenez triple makes it 7-1. And then Schneemann makes it 8-1. Yeah I think it's time to get the bullpen going. And then Schneemann steals 3rd and then takes home because I don't fucking know how to do a damn pickoff. Finally the inning is over. But fuck it's 9-1. That is not good at fucking all.

In bottom 5th, Zach McKinstry is JUST able to get the base hit. Spencer Torkelson lines out in the infield. Dillon Dingler lines out also in the infield. And Trey Sweeney flies out. Rocchio, Kwan, and Manzardo all surprisingly get out in the top 6th. In the Bottom 6th, Colt Keith grounds out Parker Meadows flies out and Kerry Carpenter... hits another bomb! Kerry Carpenter so far has put in both runs for Detroit. Riley Greene and Wenceel Perez get a couple more hits. But with 2 outs, Zach McKinstry creates the force out. You know it's sad. I have 1 less hit than Cleveland so far and yet 7 less runs. And for some reason Cleveland randomly gets another run after Gimenez gets a hit. I thought Lane Thomas would've stopped at 3rd. He didn't. Now down by 8 going to bottom 7th. (sigh). Tork gets a hit. Annnd that's it. A double play and a fly out later and we go to top 8th. Jackson Jobe is able to get a 1-2-3 burger as we head to the bottom 8th. Colt Keith is the lead off guy to 1st. Parker Meadows lines out and Keith safely returns to 1st. And then Kerry Carpenter makes it 10-4 with another homer! So now he has driven all 4 Tigers runs. Greene gets another hit. And so does Zach McKinstry. But for some fucking reason the Riley Greene AI decided to just stay at 1st and is tagged out at 2nd. Like... what the fuck? Does the game want me to lose? Cleveland doesn't need any more runs in top 9th and after a double play, it's time to... I don't know let the game mercifully end? Tork is able to get a single. Dingler gets a single. And Sweeney... some... some fucking how is not only safe at 1st but any infield out is avoided with some bad throws. Huh... so now I have bases loaded... nobody out... where have I seen this story before? Colt Keith hits a missile and gets a bases clearing double and it's 10-7 before Cleveland sends in Clase. (Before he was put on leave for gambling).

Meadows gets the sac fly to let Keith go to 3rd. Kerry Carpenter gets his 5th RBI of the game. Riley Greene lets a ball sneak throu-are we having a fucking game here? And Wenceel Perez... can you believe it? Walk... off... homer. Wow... that is unbelievable. I was fucking down 10-4 and I scored 7 runs in the bottom 9th and win it 11-10. Of course we all know the real Tigers right now would never do that. Can that momentum carry over into game 2? Well there'd be no business for the 1st inning. Cleveland gets a guy on but that's about it. And I actually make the Cleveland pitcher work a bit longer. But ultimately score no runs. It's a quiet 2nd and 3rd innings. In top 4th, Manzardo hits a lead off double... oh boy here we go. And then Ramirez hits an RBI double. But thankfully that's it for the damage. Of course nothing going in the bottom 4th. Not much action in the 5th besides a Vierling single. Kwan gets a lead off double in top 6th but doesn't score. Even when being on 3rd with 1 out. Tork gets a lead off single in bottom 6th and I have Ibanez bunt the ball to get Tork 2nd which works like a charm! And it worked out with a Keith RBI single! The tie is short lived though as in top 7th, once again I have no idea how to fucking pick off a damn runner and Gimenez gives Cleveland the lead again. No score in bottom 7th. In top 8th, Kwan gets a single and Manzardo doubles. It's a miracles I deny them a score. Tork gets another hit in bottom 8th with 1 out. And then Ibanez grounds into a double play. Well shit. I'm going to have to come back again am I? Thankfully I 1-2-3 Cleveland in top 9th. Clase comes back out for bottom 9th. Dingler starts us with a lead off single. Colt Keith gets a double to put Dingler at 3rd. Parker Meadows gets a safety squeeze and we are tied. Can I get the win with a Carp bunt? Nope. Keith doesn't move and Riley Greene flies out. I think for the first time I have played this game, we're going to extra innings.

So logically I got to send out Will Vest for the top 10th right? Well that already went wrong. As Mr. David French Fry gives Cleveland the lead. Can I limit it to 1? Rocchio gets a sac bunt to put Fry at 2nd but we got an out. Kwan flies out. Just 1 more out to get. Or Manzardo gets a single and it's 4-2. And then fucking Jose Ramirez blasts a ball and it's 6-2. Fuck me right? Naylor lines out to end the inning but now my odds are severely low. Vierling flies out. Baez flies out and for some reason I guess I tried to get Greene to only tag for 3rd but he kept going for some reason. I tried to avoid the tag but they got to me and Cleveland wins game 2 with a 6-2 score. Well that sucked. I still have a chance to redeem this team though in the redemption rubber match. Plus my boy Skubal is pitching! He has an extremely quick 1st inning. But so does Bibee for Cleveland. And of course Kerry Carpenter has a robbed homer. It's a quiet 2nd inning and no more than a Jake Rogers single in the bottom 3rd. Shocker, Kwan singles in the top 4th. But then a French Fry fly out and Ramirez double play later and the inning is over. Wenceel Perez gets the lead off single in bottom 4th. But then Colt Keith gets a double play and Parker Meadows grounds out. Josh Naylor walks in the top 5th despite some questionable calls. Scheneeman gets a single. And Bo Naylor does fuck all. Nothing doing in the bottom 5th or all of 6th inning. And this is a first... in the top 7th, Tarik Skubal gets hurt and I'm forced to replace him. Well now that's just bullshit. I thought it was a rain delay because I was pushing buttons so fast just to advance the game. So I sent in Jason Foley who takes care of the rest of the top 7th. Empty bottom 7th. Bo Naylor gets a single in the top 8th and so does Rocchio. Neither of them score. No business doing in bottom 8th or top 9th. Miraculously I have a chance to win it here. We are tied at a whopping zero. Do I win it? No. We're going to extras again.

And in no fucking time, again, mental stupidity, I try to throw to 3rd which fails horribly and Cleveland just like that is up 1-0. I strike out Gimenez. And intentionally walk Schneemann. Bo Naylor gets a hit but it's not enough to score. Rocchio flies out with no chance of tagging. And... fucking... Steven... Kwan. It's 3-0 Guardians. And then I send in Will Vest again because I didn't learn the last fucking time. It's 4-0 Guardians going to bottom 10th. Well fuck me. Wenceel Perez does get a single to put guys at the corners. But Colt Keith grounds into a double play. Hey at least we got a run out of it. Silver linings right? And Parker Meadows flies out to get the win. Meaning for the first time in this series history... I have not redeemed the Detroit Tigers. That was heartbreaking to say. That really was. But it's almost symbolic of the Tigers we're seeing so far at the end of this season. Oh and trust me I will be writing a blog about the state of this team headed to the final stretch. I'll have some words.

A lot of words.