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I was going to say getting out of the top of the First without allowing any runs would be a big deal, but I guess it didn’t happen.

Six more games against Cleveland to go, then three on the road against the Yankees, three on the road against the Red Sox. The team really needs to make hay against the White Sox. And three more against Miami on the road. Nine games at home and 12 on the road. This could be a tough stretch.

Kahnle Is fixed so it’s back to .667 ball!

Was there any good Tigers news today? Is the sky still breaking off in big chunks and falling to earth and are the undead still roaming the streets? I could use some good news.

I wish I could say I’m excited about Meadows coming back, but I’m not. Aside from having injury problems, I wonder if he’s a head case like his brother. I mean his first game back after the injury he was spectacular, and then after that pretty much nothing. That may have been BABIP but I’m not expecting him to be a game changer. I would dearly love being wrong about this. He was a big contributor last year.

The Tigers scored 19 runs in this three game series while allowing 24 runs to the Mets. Scoring runs is definitely not the problem right now. This season is getting curiouser and curiouser. They’re at the top of the pile in the American League but it’s difficult to take a lot of solace in this even though I should. When you follow a team is closely as most of us do you’re always more aware of the serpent in the garden than in all the good things that are there.

As much as we have been understandably frustrated with this club at times, they still have the most wins in the American League and only Milwaukee is ahead of them in the National League. I wish I had the resolve or ability to get some distance from the daily ups and downs and be rational about all this, but I’m not particularly good at that. Really glad the Tigers won. Now they have an off day to repair.

I really like Bobby a lot. I’m not sure how the Tigers happened to pick up on him, but it’s working for me at least.

When I was listening to the game on the radio in my car, Dan mentioned that Baez has only walked once in his last 180 bats.

I stopped following this game temporarily because I’m a weakling, but I’m glad to know that in a critical situation the Mets had to rely on Ryan Helsley and that he failed once again. Giving up on this team temporarily and taking solace in the fact that another player on another team failed doesn’t speak well of me, but I’ll take a win anyway I can get it.

Brad Ausmus would. Although I don’t know who I’d trust anymore.

Blind squirrel finds nut. Starling Marte grounds into a double play, third baseman Colt Keith to second baseman Gleyber Torres to first baseman Spencer Torkelson. Jeff McNeil out at 2nd. Starling Marte out at 1st. 3 outs

Me not so horny.

12-2. This is a pretty emphatic example of what happens going up against a really really good team and it’s indicative of some of the weaknesses in this club. It is just two games, but it’s indicative.

Luis Torrens homers (5) on a fly ball to right field. Mark Vientos scores. Jeff McNeil scores. Oh well…

At least it wasn’t a grand slam.

They knew they would have her in the booth. But yes, I noticed that.

Wenceel really loves being thrown out.

Carp scores.

It’s great how the Mets catcher will hold the mitt in place for two or three seconds when the ball is a foot out of the strike zone hoping for a strike to be called.

Add another one man I ****ing hate this.

He’s already had three or four bad calls in the bottom of the first.

I really hate ****ty umps