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The Tigers finished the day with two base hits. This is the sixth time the Tigers have gotten two or fewer hits in a game this season. Out of 2,542 teams since 1901, 169 teams, or just 6.6% of total teams, had two or fewer hits at least six games in an entire season. With just 59 games played this season so far, the 2022 Tigers are already on this list. The 2022 Tigers are on track to finish the season with 16 or 17 games with two or fewer hits. The major league record is 11, by four teams: the 1910 White Sox, the 1911 Browns, the 1965 Mets, and the 1968 Cubs. At this rate, the 2022 Tigers will break this record on August 15, our 118th game. The prop bet is: Scott Coolbaugh will still be the hitting coach when the Tigers break this record.

At least we have the best play-by-play guy in the game on the radio.

There’s the right adjective for it: embarrassing. The TV broadcast is in a perpetual rebuild itself.

Dan and Jim don’t seem to have any problems talking about baseball during the game. So you like seeing that kind of thing?

Anyone here charmed and delighted by watching the TIgers TV crew being served and then eating ballpark food during the telecast?

Skubal dubal don’t.

Skubal’s HR/FB ratio just shot up.

Robbie Grossman with a nice hit in his first trip to the plate Personally, I believe anything we get from him from now on is a bonus.

“Dead from the neck up. Meat. Head.”

Apropos of nothing, I struggle with BP meaning anything but batting practice, just as I struggle with DH meaning anything but designated hitter.

Dilemma. Pick the right one.

This is a big leap.

Give us this game our scoreless late innings, And forgive us our “offense” As we forgive those past bullpens who have trespassed against us. And lead us not into last place, But deliver us from 100 losses.

They were headed to a Pride event in Boise so they could riot and create chaos. Maybe they should have stopped at refusing to wear a rainbow insignia.

I appreciate the difficulty cops face when there is a potential for violence in a situation that has become uncertain. They need to be able to react decisively in a situation they can maintain control of, without using more force than necessary to subdue the subject, and without hurting bystanders. That’s what good cops do. Unfortunately, we have seen evidence that it too frequently doesn’t work out that way, and that there are people who are cops who should not be. As a concept, “back the blue” can be a defensible as a reason to maintain adequate funding and training for police. In practice, too often, it exonerates and protects cops who behave very badly.

Anyone else watching the broadcast from out of town on MLB.tv? The source where they clobber you with the same commercial repeatedly? Apparently, it’s Loan Depot’s turn. I hate hate hate the music playing underneath the customers giving the testimonials. It’s this creepy-sounding vibrato keyboard thing that serves only to distract. I think I figured out exactly why I hate it: it starts out like Clair de Lune, which causes the song to go in that direction in my head, and then it goes in some other direction, and I become very unhappy. The moment I see the commercial start, I go “LALALALA!” very loudly until I can locate the remote and press the mute button. It’s the same as the Draft Kings commercial: the moment I hear the generic studio rock guitars blare out, I race to mute it before the ugly blonde can come on to tell me how I can Make. It. Rain.

Like a different hitting coach? 😁

Scapegoating in baseball? Quel horreur!

Booo

I have actually wondered whether it would make sense to pump Great Lakes water out west to the desert population there, to help alleviate their lack-of-water situation. I have long thought if this could be done, it could really help not only their water drought situation, but it also help alleviate revenue shortfalls in the rust belt Great Lakes states. The average household uses 138 gallons of water a day, or a little over 50,000 gallons a year. There are 30 million households living in the southwest desert area. There is an estimated 6 quadrillion gallons of water in the Great Lakes. If we could pump enough water from here to there to irrigate every household in the desert for a whole year, that would amount to just 0.025% of the total water in the Great Lakes. So it’s not as though we couldn’t spare it. I know it’s 1,500 miles from here to the southwest desert, but come on, it’s the 21st century, we can figure this out. Get ‘er done! 😁

Somebody once told me, unapologetically, that her thing at stoplights is to keep looking at her phone, not paying attention to the light, until someone behinds them honks. That’s when she knows the light has turned. She thought it was clever. Maybe she’s changed her mind since, who knows.

Well, if they find this level of run-scoring acceptable, then I guess Hinch and/or Al will keep Coolbaugh.

That’s right. The Curse of Ham. Oh, wait … is that why we can’t eat pork? 🤔

This is a new one to me. Can you provide examples of this?

Then I got nothin’. 😁