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So, in the 4th Skubal Ks the side, which is cool and dominant. But one of the most fascinating interviews with Sandy Koufax that I remember is where he said most enjoyed not so much striking guys out, but giving batters a pitch they simply couldn’t do anything with that resulted in a weak pop-up or an easy grounder. Given that this is a guy that struck out, I think, 382 guys in a season this is something that really stuck in my memory and the importance of which is not insignificant.

Well, that wasn’t the issue…

So I go to the bathroom, and when I come back out we’ve scored three runs in my absence… Sigh…

I wondered about this and had to look it up: Yes, the Boston Red Sox yellow and blue City Connect jerseys are deeply rooted in Bostonian culture, specifically honoring the Boston Marathon and Patriots' Day weekend. The colors (yellow and light blue) match the official flag of Boston, and the stencil lettering represents the finish line on Boylston Street.

And Perez hits a weak tapper to first on the first pitch.

Carp walks in a run.

I much prefer the “see ball hit ball somewhere safely” version of Tork.

Bases loaded one out in the first.

KM leads off doing a KM sort of thing, a single to right

Wow, the game starts in 15 minutes and the Tigers still don’t have a pregame show. Talk about operating on a shoe string. Are they going to make Jason go solo today?

So I just turned on my TV and of course for the second time in three days MLB.TV has logged me out apparently for no reason aside from the fact that if I leave the house and I’m connected to an ATT cellphone tower with an IP in Arizona or something and they think someone has stolen my account and I have to once again prove who the hell I am after 14 years.

McGonigle 3B Torres 2B Keith DH Greene, R LF Torkelson 1B Carpenter RF Pérez, W CF Báez, J SS Rogers C

Oh wow! I just realized that this game begins at 2:10 PM MDT for me which means I don’t have to wait all day long for it to begin. “It’s raining runs, hallelujah. It’s raining runs“ hopefully for us.

Happy Skubal Day!