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Wacky game in Toledo. Zach Short (1st inning) and Daz Cameron (2nd inning) get rung up on 3rd strikes via pitch clock infractions (which I need to trademark as stalled 3rd strikes). Then a called check swing strike gets hitting coach Adam Mellhuse and manager Lloyd McClendon tossed. The batter after that is awarded 1st due to catcher's interference. And Joey Wentz is pitching right handed. (OK, that last part might be false).

Monday is an off day. Its supposed to be warm on Saturday and Sunday. And right now Cabrera is one of the best bats in the lineup. Hinch needs to manage the club for the season, but I bet he let's Cabrera decide whether or not he sits this weekend.

He's getting tonight off.

The next time the Tigers are on the road and they face some kid at the plate taking his first cuts in an MLB game, they need to lob it up there so they can let him get a hit. Otherwise its a "dick move" per some of you whiners.

Hold on now, @chasfh, it was a lefty pitching. He's got Ls all over his damn name. Hell, Luetge rhymes with LOOGY for crying out loud. It was the absolute correct move to walk Cabrera and pitch to Meadows. To criticize it, especially for anyone so sabermetrically inclined, is absolute malarkey. And to cry about robbing the crowd of a chance at 3,000,..... seriously? Go pound sand with your left hand. And while we're on the topic of left hands, this is good stuff:

Ha! Why the hell did I think he was left handed? Was I day drinking without the drinking? What a waste of a day.

He's not much for chatting to the press, is he? Its kind of odd considering how much talking he does on the field and in the dugout. I forgot to mention that he also said he was pretty emotional for the first at bat. He admitted that he had to wear sunglasses because he was tearing up and didn't want anyone to notice. I kind of wonder if there is more relief by hitting these milestones than there is satisfaction for achieving it. He's had 2,999 other hits in his career. He's a certain hall of fame player. The 3,000th hit seems like a mere footnote. And he's also hitting a bit better than he has in years (granted, start to the season, small sample size, yada, yada, yada). And he's healthy. And the team has its best roster in years.

You're entitled to your opinion. But it doesn't mean you're right.

Cabrera was good in the BSD interview. On the intentional walk decision: He understood it, it was a baseball move, they're trying to win the game. On kids skipping school to be in attendance: "NOOOOO! Don't do that! Don't skip school." On whether he has heard louder boos in Detroit: "Oh, louder. This home crowd can get loud." Again on whether he was upset about being intentionally walked: "No, (big grin) my on base percentage went up."

Seems official. This one kind of came out of nowhere, eh?

Well, OK, if Brieske is up, who goes down? And by down, off of the 40.

The weird thing is that he's going to be playing 2B.

With all of the pitching injuries and poor offense? 5-7 is probably the best that could be hoped for.

I don't blame the Yankees. They're trying to win the game, not avoid 3,000. Pitch the lefty against Meadows or Cabrera? Come on, we'd be justifiably raking Hinch over the coals if he had some random lefty pitching to Judge rather than Gallo.

Kyle Farnsworth Jr pitches for Weatherford?

That was brought up at the rule V party. Oh, the pitching staff. I thought you meant the MTF staff.

One of the things that I do not like as a parent is being forced to capture some of those moments through the camera phone rather than seeing the thing in real life action.

See, 2021 Kyle Funkhouser.

Still in better shape than the head trainer. I'm not the only one that thinks that's odd, am I?

Meaning,.... his arm isn't sore?

He should retire while he is the top of that list.

If Garneau isn't catching & hitting cleanup today, then what are we even doing?

There were a lot of folks in here that were ready to ante up a longer term deal for him last season. A lot of folks were schookered by his first half. It'd have been easy to reward the first half, but the Tigers were able to get a team friendly deal out of it. Additionally, he started out abysmally cold last season. If my memory is working, he signed a little later, then had issues (visa?) with getting into camp. So he had a shortened 2021 spring training, everybody had a shortened 2022 season. He may just be a player that needs a bit longer to get things going.

He was warming up when the score was 1-3. The day before was a bullpen game. Had the score been more favorable at the time to warm up a reliever, perhaps it'd have been Fulmer or (gulp) Jimenez. Plus the pitching staff is one more injury from a patchwork 6 pack of Schlitz, Pabst, Hamms, Mickey's, Natural Ice, and Zima. OK, shout out to Jimenez since I have been very critical of him for a few seasons now. He's looked fine early on.

I can't even do this in my dreams. That guy is something else.