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Miller stunk today. Having said that, he allows fewer runners per inning than everyone else in the bullpen not named Holton. The gopher ball has been his undoing. That plate appearance before Melendez was certainly a warning, but it’d have been too late to get someone up and ready. I suppose Hinch deserves some second guessing about not getting someone up once the second base runner got on. And I guess given the two run lead, maybe that should have happened after the first runner got on. But, yeah, reliever roulette and a poor offense. Take away the extra innings and the Tigers scored 7 runs in a 4 game set vs Kansas City. Add in the Cleveland and Minnesota home games, and it’s 21 runs in 9 games excluding the extra inning points.

Probably due to pitching two innings the game before. Let’s also give the (lack of) offense it’s due criticism.

Isn’t the whole Tiger sub forum of this joint nothing but a bunch of random baseball posts in the grand scheme of life?

Would’of made the highlight clips on This Week in Baseball.

Wait, has the Louvre been notified of these breaking developments?

He was 78 and still had the zest to call the game. He mentioned stories about other duties he had like traveling secretary and stuff like that. He’d pop up from his Florida winter home once in a while to “broadcast” a hockey game with Melzak. But, yeah, to call your home town baseball team for nearly 50 years on radio and eventually television. That’s not a bad gig. Melzak started young. He had quite the admiration for the long Fort Wayne hockey announcer ….. ugh, the name escapes me, but you’ll know it. I kind of suspect Melzak has a long career with the Toledo minor league teams.

If the Tigers are satisfied with Torkelson’s efforts, I’m for his recall. If the Tigers are satisfied with Jung’s efforts, let’s see what’s up. This season is done and it’s time to figure things out for next season.

Yes, he did. I haven’t caught much this season, but whenever I watched, Weber was on the call. I assume Matt Melzak picks up full time play by play to finish this season and they look to fill the role in the off-season. Melzak has been the play by play for the Walleye, going back to when they were previously the Storm, and has also done quite a bit of work with the Mud Hens. Hockey season picks up well after baseball, and both teams are owned and operated by the same group, so my worthless outside guess is that would be the arrangement for now. I didn’t realize Weber was a native Toledoan. Melzak is as well. So, that’s kind of an interesting footnote to the lineage of Toledo sports broadcasting.

Mud Hens longtime play-by-play announcer Jim Weber dies at 78

We should probably change the subject. How about discussing the impotent offense?

No, the phrase was "I've made a boner of myself". Once the laughter died down and someone told him what it meant, he just dropped his head and said "Well now I've really made a boner of myself".

Holy moley. Merkle grew up in Toledo. Now I know..... the rest of the story.

This typo can't be as embarrassing as when our 6th grade teacher referred to one of his mistakes in class as a "boner". He legit didn't know the ....uh.... street connotation for the term.

I don't know, the "look at my new hat" did allow for .... artistically expressive humiliation.

The tiger coming out of the water there is some of your finest work.

A tremendous player. 😁

Probably true. There was Mauer in Minnesota, there is Ramirez in Cleveland, now there's Witt in Kansas City.

Trout had 4 seasons on him at the beginning of their careers (Puckett debuted at 24, Trout at 19). But, yes, despite the differences in eras, Trout has been the better player. Puckett was pretty darn durable until he retired. He never had fewer than 600 PAs except for his rookie season (584 in 1984) and the strike shortened season (482 in 1994).

I think Manning is injured. Its easy to point to the bullpen being overtaxed with the lack of SP. But what about Skubal and Montero? This game was a good one for Montero to go 7. After the first 3 batters he faced scored on the HR ball, he really held Kansas City in check and didn't throw too many pitches. But will there be a game where they try to squeeze one inning too many out of whatever SP they have because there was a BP game the game before or the game after?

You know, it just occurred to me. Bally's never had the awful "players only" broadcast from RF this season.

Will he still be first ballot, or will this injury streak be held against him?

I'm going to guess you're hanging out in the wrong forum.

Cut it out, Bobby Witt, Jr. July is over.

No, no,... Hanifee is pitching for the Tigers, not against the Tigers.