Jim Cowan

All I watch is the highlights but Carpenter does not seem like Timmy Lupus to me. It's been pointed out that he does not make plays at the wall but other than that he seems adequate enough that he does not have to DH full time.

I think Bert photoshopped that D onto his vest.

That's good enough for me. I always liked Cabrera at 3rd...if you hit it right to him he made all the plays, and he had a cannon. So that plus the 1.000 OPS made him one of the top 3 all-around 3rd basemen in baseball, and gave the Tigers a huge advantage in lineup construction. If Keith could be even a slightly below average defender at 3rd, with an OPS+ of 120, I'm sold. The outfield is too crowded for him, he needs to play 3rd and play it every day.

Yes I hate that too, all the styling and posing, and then the ball hits the wall and you are DOA at 2nd.

Yes I just saw that replay. Here's something that was drilled into all of us when we were 14: never, ever get thrown out at third base when there are 0 out, or 2 out. Never. Especially 2 out...what are you going to do, score on a sac fly? These guys are not fundamentally sound, not well coached. And on top of that, to be thrown out at third by the left fielder? I bet that more than half of these guys play an entire career without that happening.

Yeah, plus it would help to get the lingering stench of Modi out of the White House.

Interesting that Micro said "since high school", it makes me picture him as a basketball player. He would have a lousy jumper because he couldn't repeat his stroke, and would not have the competitive fire to win games in the closing minutes by the sheer force of his will power. A brilliant athlete who is on the bench during the last 5 minutes.

Lol I hadn't seen game 2 when I commented on game 1.

There's that substantial wad of chaw in his cheek. Do Colavito tomorrow.

Lynn Henning knows why.

Rogers hasn't done much with the bat this week but what a huge play that pickoff throw was in the second inning. The score was already 4-0 when he erased a baserunner, added an out, and they never scored again until the 9th. You might very well describe that as the turning point, when the Tigers got up off the mat. That's why he needs to catch 5 games a week, 125 for the year. That should have been obvious in April. He would get about 425 PA's batting 9th, and he would hit 25 home runs from that 9 spot. I always thought he could hit .240 but that seems unlikely now, so getting on base at even a .300 pace will not happen. So what we have is an elite defensive catcher who hits 25 home runs a year for the next 4 years and I am very pleased about that.

3 walks for Baddoo now, my goodness.

Vierling with a nice AB until the 9th and 10th pitches, both of which would have been ball 4.

Jax threw 33 pitches that inning, that's managerial malpractice. If he had been pulled after 25 the score would still be 5-4.

Carpenter!

Greene ties it up with a triple!

Baddoo draws his second walk of the game. The past 2 weeks have been very productive for him.

Cabrera hits a double.

There is so much obvious framing going on there. Robot umps will eliminate that thank goodness.

Late 60's B list singer Gary Puckett had at least 2 songs about jailbait that struck me as being kind of gross at the time.

So far so good...we are about to start through the lineup for the third time.

I'm not enjoying the Isan Diaz era.

Miguel Cabrera HR!!

Hearing the Lancaster is almost as memorable as seeing it.

Here is a list of what we have in Hamilton, sadly no Mosquito, but a pretty impressive list and they all fly, with possibly one exception: https://www.warplane.com/aircraft/collection.aspx