lordstanley

8-2 force out. And despite what I first wrote, no single.

Struck him out! Skubal gets out of it but Jays probably aren’t completely dissatisfied. They have 3 innings without Skubal coming up.

Out at home on a single!

Bichette frustrating Skubal.

Key moment of the game. Bichette up with 2 on 1 out. A base hit probably wins the game.

In the past 10 games, the White Sox have been 6 games better than the Tigers and the Rockies have been 5 games better.

Riley stood there like the house by the side of the road. Again.

Picked him off!

Jays threatening, runners on 2nd and 3rd 1 out.

Jake knows his moustache isn’t as impressive as that of LF Schneider so he salvages his pride by getting on with a single.

Hold on …Royals just get a 3-run walkoff homer to win game 1 of their doubleheader. Tigers’ lead is 8 over Cleveland, 8.5 over KC and 9 over Minnesota.

Tigers’ lead about to drop to 7 over Cleveland because a dumb Royals player got picked off 2nd base in the 10th inning.

I misss the old days of June when the biggest thing we had to moan about was the empty seats behind home plate.

A great night for Sacramento baseball!

And 15 of his 19 total bases were on hits to the opposite field.

Crazy.

Tigers lose. Lead over Cleveland down to 7.5 games. How many more games until the Tigers’ run differential for the season (+61 currently) drops into the red.

The only silver lining (I'm grasping) is that it may be more "efficient" for all parts of the team to go cold at the same time - starters, bullpens, defense, offense. If you're going to lose, might as well lose by big margins. But need to at least a few of those elements to pull out of it - and soon!

I remember I dismissed your concerns about warning signs about the Tigers going into the All Star break. I bet you hate being right.

Tigers trail. Defense has cost the Tigers 2 runs this inning. Maybe more, as there are 2 on 2 out.

Greene must have got scared of his shadow or something. Tying run on 3rd, 1 out.

Tigers lead! They won’t play badly when wearing their nifty City Connect jerseys

2 pitches, 2 outs.

I approve of that message.

Well, in the past 2 weeks their division lead has shrunk from 14.0 to 8.0 over Cleveland, from 13.5 to 9.5 over KC and from 12.5 to 10.0 over Minnesota. An AL lead of 3.5 over Toronto and Houston 2 weeks ago has flipped to being 1.5 games behind Toronto and 0.5 games behind Houston. That is quite a change in just 2 weeks. Sure, if they snap out of it this weekend still will have a comfortable divisional lead to make the playoffs, but they’ve lost 1/3 of their lead and have lost (for now) the WC round bye