gehringer_2

The baseball gods must be PO'd with the Tigers big time. When Carlos Santana is making defensive plays against you, you are truly cursed.

WM: Parker Meadows 2/5 with a double Lakeland: Faedo 3 2/3IP, 4H, 3ER, 1BB 5K. Derek Hill with the start in CF Toledo: Brieske 4IP, 2H 0ER, 4K, BB

And Candy makes the tough play to his right to get out of the inning. How about that?

It is a little out of the norm for a team not to go glove first in the bench players, but that is apparently Hinch's MO. And there is the run. That truly sucks. Most teams will score most innings that you give them 5 outs.

Harold boots two in a row. Fabulous.

So the gatorade just cost Skubal his no-hitter.

Oh crap - didn't realize it was Hernandez but it figures he and Carlson would have been relegated to each other.

do any umpires in this crew know what a strike is?

Skubal throwing off-speed for strikes in some FB counts. Nice to see the Tiger pitcher doing that to the opposition instead of vice versa!

12 up, 12 down. So far this one is shaping up as a real barn-burner.

Tiger hitters making Keller look like Cy Young early.

definitely - threw some successful off-speed.

McCosky says more testing underway. If another shoe does drop it probably won't be tonight. FWIW, in recent years the more common coding for "probably needs TJ" has been "forearm strain"

didn't think his velo was where it should have been.

was reading a piece about China earlier in the day but lost track of where - at any rate the writer was talking about how the Chinese really want to believe that the Euros are just being slaves of US policy in their opposition to Russia and that Chinese efforts to turn them away from the US just need more work. The Euros he quoted were all frustrated with their recent interactions with the Chinese in their unwillingness to understand that their opposition to Russia was home grown and fundamental. I find that another interesting example of a kind of projection. A man like Xi, (or Putin) who can only see the world in a top down paradigm, is going to be prone to serious misjudgments about the motivations/responses of others in any more open cooperative system. And of course by the same token, we probably continually overestimate the possibility of internally generated Russian or Chinese reform for mirror image reasons.

Grossman to the DL yet?

I think we have both a conservative and a liberal here in agreement that the solution is to attempt fewer apprehensions under conditions that give a perp less motivation to resist ( less hope of successful escape).

right - that too. Then again, if Pakistan did move East, would that move India move West? Might be the better end of the bargain!

I'm generally skeptical that players ever become better outfielders once into their 20s. But Baddoo does have speed and that can cover other sins in a CF. But like everything else in pro ball it depends on the bats. I'll be happy to live with Baddoo's D over Hill's if can OPS 150 higher. If not - then not so much.

TBF, Khan did as a play on his anti-Americanism. Not as clear to me there is much potential for deeper affinity between China and Pakistan. From the Chinese side Pakistan is basically a religiously based country that is sympathetic to Islamic evangelism and that is anathema to China. OTOH, the middle classes in Pakistan have a strongly Western world view.

~15 is about where they would be again if they start winning - somewhere south of the Astros but north of where they are now should be their normal spot.

so I just came across an NYT story that the NYPD never used solo patrol cars before 1991. I wonder how inflation and population adjusted police funding in NYC today actually compares to then? 5B is for sure a big number but without the context who knows what it should mean. https://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/19/nyregion/police-to-put-lone-officers-in-patrol-cars.html

You are historically and numerically incorrect. The EC exists because the US started out trying to maintain a patina of being union of somewhat politically equal states. It is no longer. It's is now a unitary nation. The Civil War settled that issue pretty emphatically. The other concept - about 'others have no say' is in fact the motivating principal of democracy, which is when in doubt, give the decision to the majority. There is no other fundamentally fair thing to do, thus elimination of anti-majoritarian structures like the EC manifestly would not 'give others no say', but instead move toward giving the most people the most say == democracy.

Or maybe the people in the country are just being greedy and non-communitarian. unwilling to adjust an unfair, non-democratic system because it benefits them. just sayin'...

Curious how some countries are just so pathologically bad at governance.