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Tork smashes one off the foul pole! Tigers lead 2-1.

Tied heading to the 9th. Tigers have Perez, Greene and Tork coming up. No time like the present to score a run or two and win this.

10 straight Tigers hitters have been retired.

Good outing for Paddack. Went 5 2/3 innings, 1R, 3H, 1BB, 4K, 76 pitches.

Meanwhile on the out of town scoreboard …

Paddack with 2 scoreless innings. But I still don’t trust a pitcher with a blue glove.

Ask and you shall receive.

Riley getting hot?

Presley died 48 years old this week. The night he died, my parents, my three siblings and I got washed out of a KOA campground in Lake Placid, NY. We packed up the tent in a torrential downpour at 2am and piled into our car and hoofed it out of there towards Vermont. The first half hour on the radio was one Elvis song after another, commercial-free. I remember thinking, hmm, I didn’t know Elvis was so huge in NY state. Then the DJ came on and explained to listeners like me that the King was dead.

Tigers win. Astros win. Guardians lose. Royals lose. The Tigers were 7 up on Cleveland with 56 games to go, now the Tigers are 6 up on Cleveland with 43 games to go.

Tigers need 3 outs, with 4 runs to play with.

Carp busts it open!

I believe the Tigers have lost 6 of their past 7 series. Really need a win today.

Some Detroit sportscasters are surprisingly old and long-tenured. I guess anyone under 30 would consider them to have been around forever. George Blaha - 80. Pistons PBP since 1976. Mickey Redmond - 77. Red Wings tv color since 1986. Paul Woods - 77. Red Wings radio color since 1987. Mark Champion - 75. Pistons PBP since 2001. Ken Kal - 67. Red Wings PBP since 1995. Dan Dickerson - 66. Tigers PBP since 2000. Ken Daniels - 66. Red Wings PBP since 1997. Dan Miller - 63. Lions PBP since 2005. Here is how old famous Detroit broadcasters were when they retired. Ernie Harwell - 84. Tigers PBP 1960-2002. Jim Price - 81 (died, was broadcaster in the season of his death). Tigers color 1993-2023. George Kell - 74. Tigers PBP 1959-1996. Jim Brandstatter - 71. Michigan color/PBP 1979-2021. Al Kaline - 67. Tigers color 1975-2002. Bob Reynolds - 67. Lions PBP 1952-1982. Bruce Martyn - 65. Red Wings PBP 1964-1995. Frank Beckmann - 64. Michigan PBP 1981-2013. Paul Caray - 63. Tigers PBP 1973-1991. Bob Ufer - 61 (died, was broadcaster in the season of his death). PBP 1945-1981.

I don't use Reddit for sports, but I do use it for local news of various cities in which I'm interested and for travel. It's a good source of real-time information and for dialogue that - despite anonymity - for the most part remains civil and constructive, probably due to having moderaters and upvotes/downvotes.

I save all my passion and negativity and channel it instead towards the scourge of e-bikes and e-scooters on sidewalks. We need to bring back the electric chair in Canada. Just for that.

As shaky as the Tigers have been, a big part of the story is the Guardians going 21-7 (.750 ball for 28 games) if they hang on to their 3-1 8th inning lead tonight after being under .500 most of the year. If the Guardians had simply gone 17-11, still better than they had started the year, the Tigers' lead would be near double digits.

Petry jinxed it.

From Wikipedia:Morton has the most career batters hit by pitch of active pitchers with 189.

I’m disappointed the Tigers aren’t up by a few runs, for as hittable as Kikuchi has been and as lights out Morton has been.

Morton strikes out the side and has 8 Ks through 3 innings.

Morton strikes out the side and has 5 Ks through 2 innings.

Yankees beat the Astros. Houston is now 2 back of the Tigers, Seattle is 3 back.

Eugenio Suarez has played 8 games for the Mariners since being acquired at the deadline, going 3 for 31 including striking out 13 times for an .097 avg, 1 HR, 3 RBI, .347 OPS.

Guardians win. Astros win. Jays-Dodgers scoreless early.