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For fun, I looked up leads past Tigers teams have held after games of August 13. 1968: up 6.0 (won by 12.0) 1984: up 9.5 (won by 15.0) 1987: down 0.5 (won by 2.0) 2006: up 5.5 (up 8.0 over Minnesota who eventually won division by 1.0) 2009: up 2.5 (up 5.0 over Minnesota who eventually won division by tiebreaker game) 2011: up 3.0 (won by 15.0) 2012: down 2.0 (won by 3.0) 2013: up 6.0 (won by 1.0) 2014: down 0.5 (won by 1.0) 2024: down 14.5 (ended season down 6.5) 2025: up 6.5

Am watching Mariners-Orioles. I don't think I've ever heard an Australian accent in the broadcast booth before. It belongs to former Mariners pitcher Ryan Rowland-Smith who is their regular color guy this season.

Yes, my error! I was watching, so knew it was the 6th, but must have mistyped. Guardians lose. Jays lose. Astros win. Mariners trailing 3-1 late.

This game is up and down like a toilet seat. 8-4 Marlins in the 8th. Yay.

Guardians have already come all the way back against Miami. 4-4 in the 4th. Boo.

San Diego’s win this afternoon puts them a 1/2 game up in the NL West. On June 15 the division leaders were Detroit, NYY, Houston, NYM, Chicago and LA. The Tigers still have their lead and Houston is tied, but the other four divisions have flipped.

So 10-6, .625 ball, for the 16 games (1/10th of the season) since the 1-12 horror stretch. Given what for the most part has been a sub-.500 level of competition, it still feels more like treading water than a surge forward. But beats sinking.

Tigers win! Vest with swagger.

lol, I am watching the game but synced to the radio, and Dan blew a call on the Quero at-bat. Exclaimed “swing and a miss” and then paused and modified to “just got a piece of it”. It was actually a foul out of play, no?

Leadoff walk, gulp.

Through 7, Tigers pitchers Melton and SGL have faced 22 batters, just one over the minimum.

1-0 Tigers at the 7th inning stretch. Win or lose today, this has not been a good series for the offense.

White Sox’s only two baserunners today have been hits on 0-2 counts.

Bases loaded none out but only getting one run out of it would be a huge miss.

For sure. Would be a shame for the Tigers to waste it. Need runs.

How did a French-language commercial for paint slip into my MLB.tv between innings?

No perfect game

ESPN's in-season ranking of top 50 MLB players. Top 6 of Judge, Ohtani, Skubal, Raleigh, Witt Jr and Skenes. No Tiger other than Skubal made it. I thought I'd see Greene somewhere in the 40s. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/45947026/mlb-rank-2025-season-update-top-50-baseball-players-judge-ohtani-skubal-raleigh

Can't put lipstick on a pig.

Game should be over on a Greene strike out, but he gets a gift call and then draws a walk. New pitcher coming in for Chicago. 9-6, 2 outs, 1 on.

I was already counting the 4th run.

Lucky bounce! Tigers have runners at the corners, down 3.

White Sox have batted around. Full count,bases loaded. One more hit and this game is over.

ANOTHER bloop. 4-1 White Sox. Disastrous inning.

This could get out of hand. 4 straight Sox hitters have reached base. Bases loaded, none out, game tied.