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And I think Morton indirectly makes the bullpen stronger by freeing up Melton to get in relief innings for now instead of being used as a starter. Which in turn means Melton might be available as a starter come playoff time, if Hinch so chooses.

So Morton has made 4 starts for the Tigers now, going 6 innings in 3 of them and giving up 1, 6, 0 and 2 runs. Total of 22 1/3 IP, 3.63 ERA, 1.07 WHIP, 29 Ks. He has had only one bad inning, no?

Guardian lose on a walkoff . They’re 10.5 games behind now.

Tigers sweep the Astros who are now 6 games back of the Tigers. Philadelphia just finished sweeping Seattle who are now 7.5 games back of the Tigers. Toronto dropped 2 of 3 to last place Pittsburgh and is now 1.5 games back of the Tigers. Cleveland, having only managed a split so far against Arizona, is 10.0 games back of the Tigers. Only the Royals have kept pace with the Tigers but the Royals are 9.5 games back of the Tigers and verging on irrelevance.

Sweep!! Outscored the Astros 18-2 in the three wins.

Great story, great memory.

Jays send a ball to the warning track in the 9th but lose to the Pirates.

Great job by Morton to save the inning and protect a still-big lead. 7-2 Tigers, mid 5.

Whoa, that ball should have ended the inning. Now the Astros have a chance to get right back in it.

Important inning. Morton facing the top of the order after the Astros have had the weight of the scoreless drought lifted off of their shoulders. 1 out.

Astros have a good chance to score here. Runner on 2nd with 0 outs, Correa up.

Looking good but still a lot of innings to play. No let up.

Trammell hurts himself for the second time dating back to last night’s 9th inning. 5-0 Tigers.

4-0 Tigers, still before the first out.

Watching Charlie Morton in a Tigers uniform reminds me of Kevin Costner in For The Love of the Game.

Kiss my ass, ‘stros!

I don't think I've ever been more nervous before a hockey game than Game 6 of the Wings-Avs series in 1997. Wanted revenge on Clod Lemieux and the Arrogants so badly. This goal by Fedorov is when I realized it was happening.

Win or lose today, the Tigers finally have carved out some breathing room in the race for the bye into the ALDS. They're now 5 games up on Houston and 6.5 games up on Seattle with the Tigers having 34 games to play (the Astros have 36 games left, the Mariners have 35 games left). If the Tigers win today, they will win the season series 4-2 over Houston and hence win the tiebreaker. If the Tigers lose Wednesday, the season series will end up tied 3-3 so the next tiebreaker is the teams' record within their own division. The Tigers' AL Central record is 24-13 with 15 divisional games left to play. The Astros' AL West record is 16-17 with 19 divisional games left to play. That's a 6-game "lead" for the Tigers at the moment. Seattle has the tiebreaker over the Tigers because they won the season series 4-2.

Probably had a lot to do with the novelty of night games, as the next day the two teams drew under 10,000 for a Saturday day game. The first night game at Tiger stadium had been just 7 weeks earlier on June 15, 1948.

And it happened on the 74th anniversary of a famous walk involving the Tigers. Eddie Gaedel drew a 4-pitch walk at Comiskey from Tigers' pitcher Bob Cain on August 19, 1951. https://baseballhall.org/discover-more/stories/inside-pitch/bill-veeck-eddie-gaedel-the-birth-of-a-legend

I know some people thought that complaints earlier in the season about empty seats behind home plate were silly, but c'mon, the crowd cheering the ball four added to the occasion. As did the mist.

Guardians lose, thanks Arizona. The Tigers’ lead is now 9.0 games over KC and 9.5 games over Cleveland. The Tigers’ magic number on both teams is 27.

The slumping Milwaukee Brewers just got swept by the Cubs in a doubleheader and have now lost 3 of their past 4 games. Only the 2nd time since the 4th of July that they've lost consecutive games. They're 5 games ahead of the Tigers for best record in baseball.

The Tigers have won 9 of 12, and 15 of their past 22, and are now over .500 since the All Star Break at 16-15.

They've been shut out 4 of their past 5 games.