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Greene cuts the lead in half! 7-4 Seattle.

Boy, switching up the days of Skubal’s and Mize’s starts really worked out well, eh.

Tork with a long sac fly. 4-3.

Skubal is mortal. Damn. 4-1 Mariners.

Parker Meadows strikes out. I think.

MLB app goes to commercial after “strikeout” of McKinstry. Come back to find out call was overturned and McKinstry has singled to tie it. Now the bases are loaded. I was pretty confused for 30 seconds.

Seems like Skubal hasn’t got much run support recently. 1-0 Mariners, Tigers have 2 on 2 out in the 4th.

Not just for MLB players. Kids leaving home and one or both spouses retiring is a big change in the relationship dynamic and I've seen some separations come out of that. My wife and I are empty nesters but still both working - I guess when I retire I'll promise to spend to more time out of her hair on hobbies like banter about trade deadline rumors.

This Global Wettening is starting to be a drag.

Apparently official now.

The game’s on Apple+. The Apple CEO will come running onto a stage beside the field to make the Mize announcement to wild applause from nerds.

I’m a sucker for these clips of players calling their parents or wife after being called up to the majors or making an all-star game. Subsequent to this, Woo went out and no-hit the Yankees for 7 innings.

Lee Elia passed away this week. Remembered for the Wrigley rant. https://ontapsportsnet.com/mlb/remembering-lee-elia-the-cubs-manager-behind-the-most-epic-rant-in-chicago-sports-history

Don Wert!

Here's a trivia question. The '68 Tigers had four All Stars in the ASG in Houston that year. Three are obvious - McLain (3rd pitcher behind starter Luis Tiant despite an 18-2 record at the break), Freehan (starter), Horton (starter). The 4th less so. Who was he? He was a position player and he was the only Tiger to get a hit that game, one of only three the AL got that night. Answer at the 1:09:15 mark.

I thought one of the Tigers broadcasters the other day - I forget whether it was Dickerson or Benedetti - said that Boone had told Hinch that he was debating between Skubal and Fried partly because of Fried's connection to Atlanta.

I learned a few other things too, from Wikipedia. - When he was having control problems in 1976, he went to a Catholic priest who doubled as a hypnotist and after putting him under several times cured him of his fear of getting fit. The fear had been understandable - Joe had fractured his skull in 1971 after getting hit by a Ted Simmons liner, and was hit by a line drive a dozen times in 1974. - When with the A's in 1978, Charlie Finley tried to send him to the minors, Vancouver, but he refused to report. Hey! - He is the father of Casey Coleman who pitched 58 games for the Cubs and Royals in the early 2010s, making them and Joe's dad MLB's first trio of 3-generation pitchers - Joe was the pitching coach of the Lakeland Tigers from 2007-2011 And here's Joe pitching a shutout in the '72 ALCS

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In fact, the top 5 MLB teams - Detroit, LA, Houston, Chicago Cubs and Toronto - all lost today. Today, the peasants revolted. Friday, the dominators will crush the rebellion, starting with Skubal and the Tigers at the battle of Comerica.

Coleman pitched a complete game 3-hitter in the 2nd Tigers game I ever attended, in August 1974, to beat Vida Blue and the A’s. https://www.baseball-almanac.com/box-scores/boxscore.php?boxid=197408310DET

One of the first Tigers pitchers I remember.

Tigers lose. Fine. You have to throw the rest of the American League a bone now and then.

Time for Chase to get chased. 6-3.

3 hits in 5 pitches, two of them for extra bases.