I believe Pope Frank would approve.
I think I mentioned this before, but when I was a kid, I had a button with a picture of Pope John Paul Jr in a Tigers hat and the inscription of “Bless You Boys”.
The run is unearned, and we can debate about that, but do people know he also has to forfeit the post game orange slices? I’m not sure folks know about that aspect of the rule.
So that chopper to Torkelson where he threw the runner out at home rather than take the out at second allowing the runner to score….. that kind of loomed large, eh?
This season is young, but he’s posting better numbers than last season. I remember he started out slow last season, really high ERA and WHIP from a couple of poor early outings. But he eventually worked those ratios down.
I thought he had decent numerals last season with the exception of the HR%. I suspect his close and late numerals weren’t so good, but that’s just a suspicion.