IdahoBert

Just by my eye, the Cubs seem to be acting really entitled about this strike calling thing and that just doesn’t seem to work well with this umpiring crew.

AI Overview Yes, there is an MLB umpire named Derek Thomas. He's known for his work in the MLB and has been recognized as one of the most accurate umpires by Umpire Scorecards. In fact, according to Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, he ranked second in accuracy among umpires who had worked the plate at least three times, trailing only Will Little.

8 foot tall Parker Meadows snares the ball in center to get out of the inning

Walks the base is loaded.

Call stands at the plate and there’s two out.

Exciting play at home Carpenter to Dingler wow. And it’s up for review.

Ruh row Flaherty walks the first two in the fourth

Tigers got some help from the BABIP gods in the third but couldn’t cash in when Tork popped out.

Tork is the only first baseman I watch much because I don’t watch other teams games and don’t pay that close of attention to our opponents, but he seems to be fairly decent and make a lot of plays. He doesn’t seem to fumble the bang bang plays that are important to handle.

Riley’s average swing path of 45 degrees is the highest in the Majors this year, according to Statcast, two degrees higher than Freddie Freeman at No. 2. And he’s doubling down about not changing it.

Do Sunday games typically start this late at 1:40 PM? I know that Saturday “day games“ begin around 4 PM at times but is this late start on Sunday something I have somehow missed or is something special happening of which I am unaware?

Felix Pie. That’s an obscure one which I had to look up.

I don’t think one game can say a lot about a team because it’s such a snapshot anyway. But it would still say at least something about them if they rose to the occasion and kicked ass today and made a statement. The club has felt kind of lackluster lately and it would be a real boost to stop doing that.

Right now, the Tigers and the White Sox are their two winningest teams in the AL Central over the last 10 games.

Some have suggested we might lose Harris because he must be motivated by money like everyone else. Perhaps he wants to go back to San Francisco and enjoy more wine and cheese parties. That strikes me as a serious misread. I don’t think he’s that shallow. He’s not done here. He hasn’t turned this team into a perennial contender and terraformed the entire organization, but we can see this goal being actualized. This is a life‘s work that few are allowed to undertake with the possibility of success. It’s like an amazing transcontinental chess match. It has to be really rewarding for him to be responsible for it and to know his fingerprints are on everything. I feel fortunate to be a witness to it.

The Tigers have three guys at West Michigan who are 20 years old - Clark, McGonigle, Briceno — who are all doing well. Is it the team drafting and signing philosophy to avoid College players or is it just happenstance and they felt these guys will have the highest ceiling? Briceno as an international signing and would I guess be in a different category. Jobe however would be another example of this philosophy or happenstance occurrence.

This ball/strike thing is becoming a crisis of confidence in the integrity of the game. When there is so much information out there and the information can’t be suppressed MLB really has to act.

At least we won the game we should’ve won the first one with the best hurler in baseball.

I missed quite a bit of the game right now, but my only comment about Montero is that the Cubs are a really good hitting team and we shouldn’t be surprised that they’re hitting him when they couldn’t hit Skubal which no one can really hit. And Lee serves one up.

Third strike out of the day.

Riley has a chance to redeem himself here…

Montero is doing a pretty good job and giving up a two run homer that the team scoring the most runs in baseball isn’t exactly a demerit.

McKinstry base running magic scores on a ground ball of the third baseman. Sweeney, of course, weakly pops out.

Zack triple. Don’t waste this opportunity!

2 run homer for Cubs