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If Stathead is to be believed, this is the second fastest game of the year at 2:18. That was nice.

Also a bit of luck. Offense was flat except for TORK!, and we got 5-star plays on two straight outs.

Just think, it could have been first and third and one out after Dozier, were it not for a DH in left and an erstwhile first baseman at second.

He fooled Hunter Dozier!

My god, what an exhilarating ninth inning. This is the kind of ninth inning playoff teams have.

OH MY GOD SCHOOP!! WHAT THE!

WHO SAID MEADOWS IS A DH!! 😅

Single notwithstanding, this is arguably the best Joe Jimenez inning we have ever seen.

Joey J just told Bobby Witt Jr, “Welcome to the big leagues, kid.”

Well, it’s not like we didn’t know what we were getting.

No, Craig Monroe, enough is not enough. The Tiger crowd wants more!

HOLY TORK!!!!

This is Bucha. Seeing this horror represented on a modern-looking map makes it easier to picture how this could happen in a 21st Century city.

Not that this matters to me, because it doesn't, although I still find it interesting: Should the Tigers, with arguably the richest owner in sport and a history stretching back 122 years, really be ranked in the bottom third of franchise valuation? Maybe returning to winning ways will increase their rank here. Back in 2014 their rank was 15.

You think that's bad? Dan Dickerson has been repeatedly referring to him as "Parker Meadows", and he does baseball names for a living.

Maybe because "Ed" is such a traditional old-man American nickname, it looks weird paired with non-English names. Like Ed Fukiyama or Ed Ciccolini might be. Last names like those practically beg for an "Eddie".

When you say Zelenskyy was a well-meaning fool, do you mean he was an actual fool, all unserious, or do you mean he was merely perceived as a fool and then showed everyone his true mettle?

I think what Zelenskyy has done to rally his country to war against the bully next door has been nothing short of amazing. And you can understand his frustration at Russia not being stopped militarily by NATO from pummeling Ukraine and those unfortunate citizens unable to get to a train going west. I’m with you, though: had Biden not stepped up and led the Western allies to arm Ukraine, Kyiv and Zelenskyy might both be a soldering pile of rubble right now.

Here’s what it was like elsewhere in the city: Driving home yesterday afternoon and turned into the alley to get to my garage. First, a gust into the shotgun-side door tried to tip the car over. You could definitely feel the side-to-side movement. But then as I continued on, down at the end of the alley, i saw two of those big black garbage cans being pushed by the wind across the alley, one tipping completely over. It helped that they were empty, but still, very weird scene not seen here by me before.

Wee Willie Reyes.

Too many options. We actually could have wrong with five guesses on this! Wordle 300 6/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Or else it’s this:

I do not work in the Dodgers’ front office. I’m a fan, too. I wanted to see Kershaw complete his perfect game, same as you. I wasn’t rooting for the Dodgers to take him out. All I was saying is that I understand why the Dodgers did take him out, for all the reasons I posted above. From their perspective, it made the most sense. They wanted to both protect him/his arm, and to protect the team’s chances in subsequent games by keeping him as healthy and available to start as they possibly can. To the degree the Dodgers would benefit more from Kershaw throwing a perfect game than from simply winning the game, they didn’t see enough of a benefit increase to risk the health of their ace, and the effect on the team of his being hurt, to take the risk. I can see why they did it, is all I was saying. I don’t know why I’m seeing it from that perspective. I can’t explain that. It must be my upbringing or something. It certainly doesn’t serve me well as a fan talking to other fans. I just do. It’s one of the many unique curses of being me. 😁

I'm fine with what the Dodgers did because, come on, what team wouldn't want the guy who just effortlessly mowed down 21 straight guys on 80 pitches to continue on exactly the same for two more innings, so he could get his guaranteed perfect game in which he comes out of it at 100% health? No team would ever turn that opportunity down on those terms. But the Dodgers pulled him instead. Why? It's obvious there was more going on than just that one discrete moment. Baseball had a super short spring training—basically half a training—and nearly every pitcher is not at 100% midseason form. Teams all around Baseball understand this. In the first 174 games of the season only one starting pitcher has gone 8, and only six have gone 7. In terms of pitches, only one has thrown even 100 pitches (Eovaldi, 101, against us yesterday). No one is stretching their pitchers at this point because teams need their pitchers to start additional games in a relatively healthy manner more than they need the super-cool headline in this particular game on April 13. Add to the fact that 34-year-old Kersahw's season was cut short by injury last year, and it might have been borderline negligence to let him pitch to even one more batter.

Just another way to persuade black people to stop showing up at the polls.