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Jason Beck
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Jason Beck
@beckjason
Detroit Tigers reporter on MLB.com. Not the new Michigan offensive coordinator. Also on Threads (beckjason), Bluesky (jasonbeck.bsky.social).
- Bill Walton: "Did your dad play for Jerry Tarkanian?" Jason Benetti: "My dad was an air traffic controller." Bill Walton: "How cool would it have been, though, if your dad had played for Jerry Tarkanian?"
- I covered a 119-loss team in Detroit, and I've never heard boos this loud at Comerica Park.
- Good morning from Seattle, where Miguel Cabrera is leading Tigers rookies and second-year players on a Starbucks run.
- Miguel Cabrera: "I got a lot of kids telling me, 'I skipped school.' I said, 'No, don't do that! That's not OK! Get to school!'"
- Kerry Carpenter's go-ahead 3-run HR is Tigers' first go-ahead HR in 9th inning or later in a postseason game since Magglio Ordonez sent them to World Series in 2006 with his walkoff HR in ALCS.
- A.J. Hinch on Tigers pitching plan for Wild Card Series: “Our plan is Tarik Skubal tomorrow and pitching chaos the rest of the way.”
- Miguel Cabrera on the hug from Iglesias: "We were talking all season: I've gotta wait until he comes to Comerica Park so he can see 3,000. I said, 'I don't know, man.' He said if I get the hit in front of him, he's going to run to 1B and he's going to be the first guy to hug me."
- Tigers game notes today feature Aretha Franklin song titles. Even the DL section has been changed to “It Hurts Like Hell”. Well done, @DetroitTigersPR.
- Tarik Skubal's reaction after his 103rd and final pitch was fairly strong even for him.
00:00 - Miguel Cabrera had discarded his infield glove in spring training, so he asked Spencer Torkelson if he had a backup he could use. He didn’t, so he gave Miggy his game glove. “Now the gamer is retired,” Torkelson said. “It’s going to go in a frame in my man cave.”
- Miguel Cabrera's last play in the Majors is a groundout ... on defense.
00:00 - Asked what went through his mind when Miguel Cabrera took off for third, A.J. Hinch said, “Holy shit.”
