IdahoBert

Two Weavers in the First and Jason just said the forbidden word oppo taco. I hope it was done with a sense of irony.

Colt gets his 2nd hit in the inning.

My work is done here, but I will stick around because I’m just that kind of guy.

Jake Rogers homers (1) on a fly ball to right center field. Spencer Torkelson scores. Zach McKinstry scores.

Jake Rogers is our last hope to score more runs in the first.

Torque single McKinstry double

Riley Greene homers (20) on a fly ball to right field. Colt Keith scores. Gleyber Torres scores.

Keith legs out a double leading off.

Sometimes this team feels like it’s a convalescent ward in a retirement home. Everyone’s got lumbago and nerve issues.

It’s really quite a treat. I really enjoy the way they copied Frank Lloyd Wright’s Mayan Revival Style blocks from the Ennis House in LA. It’s something I noticed in one of the offices in the Fall of the House of Usher TV series as well as in Deckard‘s apartment in the first Blade Runner.

I had the feeling that might be the case, but I just thought this stuff was automatic. Thx. I suppose there’s issues of service time and everything else involved in this too.

Since the Dodgers played yesterday and they won, giving them one win more than the Tigers, they technically have World Series home-field advantage.

MacKenzie Gore is pretty good. Aside from allowing six runs recently to the Dodgers he’s been striking out a ton of guys and shutting out teams. If Jack keeps getting behind in the count, the second game could be uncomfortable.

I just now checked and although Kerry Carpenter is reported to be on the 10 day disabled list he is still listed as active on the 25 man roster. Also, no additional pitchers are yet reported to have been added for the double header.

For the Tigers, left-hander Tyler Holton will start Game 1 and right-hander Jack Flaherty will start Game 2. The Nationals will counter with Trevor Williams and MacKenzie Gore, respectively.

My son urged me to watch Mike Flanagan‘s 8-episode Fall of the House of Usher based upon Edgar Allan Poe’s story. If you like watching rich evil people die horrible deaths you’ll like this. It’s about one of the richest families in the world in present day NYC whose cornerstone business is a crooked pharmaceutical company marketing an equivalent of the drug OxyContin and involved in countless other shady endeavors.

Yes, against Cleveland, which has lost five games in a row. Everyone but the Tigers and the White Sox are on losing streaks.

Twins lost to the Marlins too. The Marlins have won their last eight games and are 9-1 in their last 10. They have recently swept the Giants and the Diamondbacks and they’re playing the Twins whom they’ve already defeated tonight so they have a good chance of continuing this streak.

That would irk me

In terms of the “blackout” rules, I’m fortunate to live in the Northwest and the only games on mlb.tv that are blacked out for me is when the Tigers play the Mariners. That’s something I can live with. I’m glad I don’t have to deal with what the rest of you in the Detroit viewing area have to endure. Several years ago when one of the two IP addresses associated with me was mistakenly assigned to Bartlesville Oklahoma, instead of Boise, Idaho (a not uncommon error a highly skilled tech person for my Internet provider explained) I was blacked out for Astros games, Rangers games, Braves games, and I think Cardinals games all of them somehow within my alleged “viewing area”of the God forsaken no man’s land of Bartlesville, Oklahoma. This makes MLB.TV almost entirely useless for some fans. To their credit when I explained this to MLB TV they made sure I had no blackouts for that remaining year so I could even watch the Tigers play the Mariners that season.

Phew. Google AI claims that he’s not there. Apparently no one on Reddit has talked about it so obviously it can’t exist.

I thought I saw Jobe in the dugout Sunday. I didn’t think he would be with them. Maybe I hallucinated him the same way AI hallucinates “facts.“

With 77 games remaining he should have 15 starts so that’s possible although he’s going to have to get some run support and the bullpen will have to be almost flawless and not blow any leads.