Detroit Tigers lose to Cleveland Guardians for second straight night at Comerica Park.
The Guardians beat the Tigers, 4-3, at Comerica Park despite Detroit holding Cleveland to four hits.
The “Tarps Off” world tour has made its way to Comerica Park.
What began as a quaint gathering of shirtless fans in the upper deck quickly grew into a rowdy throng of several hundred bare-chested men, young and old, late in the Tigers’ game against the Guardians on Tuesday night.
The crowd seemed to form with about a dozen or so fans removing their shirts and waving them over their heads like they were rally towels, high up in Section 213 in the mezzanine level in foul territory along the first-base line. And by the bottom of the eighth inning, the movement had spilled into much of the next section over, too.
Eventually, Paws even joined the “Tarps Off” posse — but kept his shirt on.
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The “Tarps Off” movement has been sweeping Major League Baseball the last few days, sparked by a Stephen F. Austin club baseball team that took in the St. Louis Cardinals game against the Kansas City Royals at Busch Stadium last Friday night. That crowd started small, but ballooned to more than 500, catching the attention of the Cardinals players, who won that day on a walk-off, and even welcomed the SFA team into their locker room. Eventually, the SFA team will leave town, but “Tarps Off” remains. The Cardinals won on a walk-off again Tuesday.
Alas, “Tarps Off” didn’t quite bring the same magic to the Tigers on Tuesday night.
With fans chanting, “Let’s Go Tigers!” and “Cleveland sucks!” the Tigers left the bases loaded in the bottom of the eighth inning, and left two runners on in the ninth inning, too, in losing, 4-3, and falling to 20-29, their most games under .500 since July 4, 2024. The Tigers lost for the 12th time in their last 14 games.
The “Tarps Off” phenomenon actually began in earnest this past college football season, with some hearty fans cheered on a bad Oklahoma State team late in a blowout loss in October.
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