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Future Hall of Famer based on 3/4 of a rookie season is a big swing. He might make it, since Ted Williams, Albert Pujols, and Frank Robinson all had rookie seasons with similar terrific offensive output at a young age. OTOH, so did Jimmy Williams, Kris Bryant, Alvin Davis, Charlie Hollocher, Ryan Braun, Johnny Pesky, and Jason Heyward.

The xBA on that McKinstry line drive was .790. When you are down 5-0 with two outs in the sixth inning and you can’t get hits even on batted balls like that, you know it’s over.

Also, can I tell you how much I like Benetti and Scales together? They are now my favorite combo on TV. Scales brings his all-business radio veneer to the TV booth and that helps keep Benetti’s worst impulses in check. But also, you can tell Scales and Benetti really like each other, and the volume of joking between them I think is at the appropriate level.

Sorry I made you have to turn your chip in.

Man, Bobby Scales was talking rings around Jason Benetti about defensive metrics. All that time he put in with Dan served him well.

Christ Almighty, so many ****ing ambulance chaser sponsors for Tigers broadcasts.

I promise you A’s fans—however many of them are left—are well aware of this stat.

Shades of the 2006 World Series on that Mize throw to first …

That’s true. I’m merely hypothesizing why Bill Bergen was even able to hold his job. No way a team carries a catcher who hits like that today, even if he is as good a backstop as Bergen was. The guy literally hit like a pitcher.

Any examples where Harris has done this in the past?

And he was a plus behind the plate, which, back then, was truly all that mattered. It’s true that Bill Bergen was a cut below, but even so, basically no catchers could hit back them. That was barely a requirement of them.

Most broadcasters, and also beat writers, took their jobs as journalists far more seriously 40 or more years ago. They have evolved to become part of the team these days, because access is far more precious now than it used to be. We are lucky in that Dan Dickerson is kind of a throwback to the time when broadcasters weren’t total company men. You can hear it in the live reads and drop ins he is obligated to do: he rushes through them to get them out of the way as quickly as possible, unlike Pat Hughes of the Cubs, who practically makes babies with ad copy.

Our guys definitely could use a day off after this, although as warriors, they wish they could get right back to it tomorrow so they can flip the script in as much of a hurry as possible.

Ok for god’s sakes, what are we even doing here?

Even with that triple, Tork has among the fewest triples of any current big leaguer with over 2,000 plate appearances.

Tork got a triple??

There is a kind of sick consistency to all this. The Second Amendment is meant for white people in the suburbs, exurbs, and rural counties that vote Trump. It’s not meant for people who live in cities that vote Democrat. That’s why the regime feels they have to send the military to cities, to protect the rest of the country from people for whom 2A is not meant and who, presumably, obtained whatever guns they do have illegally. You don’t see the military going into small town America, because they are all on the same side with military-grade weapons they got either from the armed forces or from unregulated gun shows. They’re probably going to end up working together, right?

Maybe Sandwich Guy should run for Mayo.

I'm pretty sure the MAGA response will be there are more important countries to worry about spying over, like China, and/or there are more important issues to focus on, like rooting out murderous illegals.

I don’t think I would give up a #35 shortstop prospect for an injury-prone 32-year-old underachiever.

Man, with those back-to-back 5-4 forces, followed by the wild pitch, this inning is a slog.

Tigers being hoisted with their own petard by the A’s dinking, doinking, and baserunning.

Riley’s got 99 ribs now.