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Needed Urshela at third base for that. ****.

Walked a run in and no one in the bullpen. This is Lange’s game to let get away from us.

That was a lot closer at the plate than I would have like, but TORK! scores the run! KEEEEEEEITH!

I hope burning Chafin with an 8-run lead yesterday doesn't come back to burn us today.

I will say that I really love seeing these local commercials, such as for Victory Motors in Chesterfield, Wyandotte, and Royal Oak, on Tiger games I see on my MLB Extra Innings package, rather than MLB forcing a blocking of local commercials and putting on bland and generic spots for old people drugs or, worse, Draft Kings. It’s the complete opposite with MLB Gameday Audio, in which not only do they block local radio station ads and play the same four spots over and over for Chicago-based companies when I listen to Tiger games at home, but no matter where I go in the country, I don’t even get what the local ads would be. Instead, the same four spots for Chicago-based companies follow me all over the country. Terrible.

An amazing unassisted double play by Colt Keith and Dan Dickerson couldn’t even call it because they had to have the sideline reporter in the stands fulfilling what I assume is a contractual obligation of some sort by talking to some Oakland University basketball players instead. What are we even doing here?

I think the plan might be to play Greene in whichever corner is the bigger, based on which stadium we play in.

Duplicate post mishap.

Either the years of substandard coaching in the minors screwed up Parker Meadows, or he wasn’t all that good a hitter when we drafted him. Either way, it’s not as though he was a kickass hitter all through the minors, so it probably shouldn’t be a surprise when he has an execrable stretch in the majors. Fingers crossed we get him straightened up and hitting lasers somehow; otherwise, we may have to tamp down our hopes for him on that side of the ball.

Well, Joey has had a pretty good five innings and he’s added a tick or so to his pitches, so OK, I’ll wait and see. Young guy, he could still turn it around. Vest, on the other hand, is this close to letting the Twins get within a slam.

Well, we now know Colt Keith can make solid contact with a 73mph heater.

Have I ever told you how much I ****ing hate position players pitching?

Yeah, that makes sense. Hopefully when we have a 10-0 lead in the fourth. And really, besides him, there are no super obvious weak links in this entire pen.

I wonder whether McCann was the objectionable one because the umpire started pushing him away, and not Adames.

This is the first time I have ever heard Wenceel Perez’s name said out loud. I always wondered whether it pronounced “Wen-SEAL” or “Wen-SAIL”. I never even consider how Benetti said it: “WEN-sell”.

I don’t know that I like Chafin here with two games on tap for tomorrow. This garbage time moment is tailor-made for Joey Wentz.

Benetti talking to Petry about laying down with the 7-0 lead, to avoid the Twins bringing in a position player to pitch to save their bullpen for tomorrow, got me to wondering about the new position player pitching rule. You can’t bring a position player in to pitch unless you’re down at least eight runs, right? Suppose you’re down eight and your position player pitcher shuts down the other team, then your team puts a run on the board to cut the deficit to seven. Do you have to bring in another pitcher from your bullpen for the next inning, since you’re no longer down eight? Or are you grandfathered in for the rest of the game and can use the position player pitching even down seven or less if you want?

Wow, a nubber to second that even TORK! can beat out!

BERRRRRRT!

The best they can with what they have to work with?

That’s great, but interesting, because the radar says it’s still raining. But then, the radar is not in anyone’s driveway.

But make no mistake: whether they start at 800pm ET, or 900pm ET. or 1000pm ET, they're playing tonight.

If Skilling is any indication, Tigers won't start until something like 930pm ET.

lol

I never really thought of her as being of The Squad, even though she was presented as the face of it. I have thought for some time now she has a long and serious future in the party and in national politics. As far as I'm concerned, she is nothing like Cori Bush or Rashida Tlaib. She is definitely not a dilettante.