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Man, did we ever dodge a major bullet that inning, in a couple fo way. I would bet against Skubal coming out for the seventh.

Wow, how did that laser end up being just a single?!

Oh, s***, Skubal feeling poorly, but he’s gonna gut through it for at least a few more pitches.

Oh, man, Skubal is so locked in still in the sixth inning.

The guy was a PBO, so I don’t know how far down the org chart he’d want to go just to get another job sooner than later.

Contemporary newspapers from the time are replete with stories of Cobb get into scrapes of all kinds with all kinds of people. Other players did not get nearly as many stories as he did. Some will maintain that’s playa-hating because the papers probably didn’t write stories about Class D players going ape**** on people. If nothing else, I do find it interesting that we’ve swung all the way the other way on this. Before Leersehn, the media would report that Cobb was a monster based only on the Stump book and nothing else. Now the media report that Cobb was not the monster everyone thinks he was based only on the Leersehn book and nothing else. If there’s one main takeaway from this whole thing, it might be that It’s fast and easy to source the first thing you see on any topic.

Skubal owes you five pitches, which I’m pretty sure he’ll pay you in the sixth inning.

Man, did Skubal ever need that five-pitch inning after last inning’s 30+ pitches.

Hey, you playing first base wearing the Tigers uniform and making good defensive plays, where did you come rom and where did you hide Spencer Torkelson?

So hilarious that the Astros re-signed The Devil They Know who wasn’t even good enough to keep his job with an underachieving Cubs team.

And heeeere come the matchups …

Trump never wanted friends. Friends are for losers, because having friends requires you to be vulnerable sometimes, and vulnerable people are total losers.

Way to gut out a tough inning, Skoobs. That’s gonna cost you an inning on the back end, but a man’s gotta do.

One of the few hard hit balls off Skubal for an inning-opening single by Alvarez. He is so dangerous that limiting him to a single seems like a win.

And all of a sudden, Sam Elliott has become an America’s Treasure.

A second Astros hit, also softly hit.

It’s not in my nature to flat out tell you to shut up. 😁

No focus on this part outside this tweet, obviously, but referring to “the women thing” really brings home how Trump views people as either tools to exploit or as pests to squash.

Houston’s first hit, not hard hit at all.

And that’s why the Firehose of Horrors works so well: you can’t focus too long on one when another one comes down the pipe.

Early October games are boring. They’re waiting for the big win party in late October.

Whatever funk that overcame the Tigers on Sunday has certainly appeared to dissipate in time for this game.

Rookie sword by Malloy brings the fun to an end.

A third straight two-out RBI single makes it 3-0. I’m OK with that kind of monotony.

And ANOTHER run-scoring single makes it 2-0!