Orioles slugger responds to Tigers broadcast comments after walk-off home run

Baltimore Orioles slugger Colton Cowser had every reason to take a victory lap after what he did to the Detroit Tigers on Sunday. Instead, he somehow made the moment sting a little more by being completely reasonable about it.

Cowser’s walk-off three-run homer against Kenley Jansen was already brutal enough on its own. The Tigers were one strike away from escaping Camden Yards with a badly needed win. They had a 3-2 lead, two outs, runners on second and third and an 0-2 count. Jansen, a future Hall of Fame closer, needed one more pitch.

Then Cowser sent a fly ball deep to center, Tigers play-by-play voice Dan Dickerson delivered the only appropriate response — “You’ve got to be kidding me” — and Detroit found yet another new way to lose.

But the moment took on a second life because of what came right before it on the Detroit broadcast. Dickerson noted that Cowser was hitting .190 with “no power” and that there was “a lot of swing and miss in this bat.” Dan Petry followed with, “How about a pop up?”

Seconds later, Cowser hit the ball over the wall. That is the kind of baseball timing that feels scripted specifically to torture a fan base.

Colton Cowser walk-off homer was another gut punch in a season full of them for Tigers

Cowser later said on "Foul Territory" that someone had texted him the clip and that it made him laugh. He also didn’t take a cheap shot at Dickerson or Petry, saying they were just doing their jobs and that what they said “wasn’t a lie at the time.” Still, he smirked while he added that he feels like he has “a pretty good amount of power.”

Unfortunately for the Tigers, he picked the perfect time to prove it.

From Detroit’s perspective, the broadcast comments were merely accurate scouting-report observations in the moment. Cowser had been struggling. Jansen had the advantage. The Tigers were positioned to win. The problem is that this team keeps turning “positioned to win” into “how did that just happen?”

Brandon Young gave Baltimore 6 2/3 strong innings, the Orioles survived some bad-luck contact in the eighth, and Detroit still had the game sitting right there for the taking in the ninth. Then Jansen couldn’t locate, Cowser found the confidence he talked about needing to “trick” himself into, and the Tigers absorbed yet another gut punch.

For Cowser, it was a funny clip and a confidence-building swing. For Tigers fans, it was another broadcast call turned into a death sentence.

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