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1-1. Hurter over. SB and a 10 pitch at bat that ended in a single made it possible.

Score more runs you big dummies!

Only 25 pitches after two innings for Hurter.

So much for the five-year contract that blocks all the kids from coming up.

Gleyber flubs a possible DP

That is Zach‘s sixth triple. What does he think he is, Granderson or something?

Wenceel SF 1-0

Triple Zach?

The art of pitch framing…

But he’s good enough and he’s smart enough…

10 Pitch walk for Riley Greene and he didn’t strike out.

I’m going to be disappointed if the Tigers don’t win at least two of these games. I probably shouldn’t be because they’re road games and few teams do well on the road, but we have Mize and Skubal pitching two of them. Hopefully Casey gets back to form tomorrow. And I will not waste any time worrying about Tarik. The Orioles, though, have been on the up-tick lately and they are at home and you have to play the games and nothing is for certain. Winning tonight‘s game would be truly spectacular because it’s the one we’re technically least like to win. If the bats awake from the doldrums, it could be a special series.

I don’t know. It may just be coincidental. I enjoy complaining. The suggestion was never made when we scored 30 runs against the Red Sox.

The pregame begins at 6 PM for all of you in the eastern time zone but for me 4 PM in mountain time. No chance for a collaborative two team FanDuel pregame show which was farcical during the series with St. Louis, because Baltimore is not FanDuel, but which I’d love to see again just for the awkward entertainment value involved. Wonder if there’ll be a Todd Jones sighting. He’s fallen off the radar for quite a while here.

I enjoyed seeing the Red Sox lose last night on my phone just before I fell asleep and of course as my iPhone spies on my activity, it informed Facebook of what I was doing and this is what came up on Facebook just now. All it took was one time, once, for Facebook to think I had forsaken the motherland and fatherland of baseball for me — the Detroit Tigers — for the algorithmically approved Boston Red Sox. It’s never thought of doing this for the Rockies or the Rays when I’ve watched those games, but when it comes to a “real team” like the Red Sox oh boy howdy, that’s red meat.

I necessarily share a certain terrain with other fans as equally infected by their team as we are by ours and maintain a certain sympathy for them, but that doesn’t make me any less hopeful that their doom and gloom in the next three games is affirmed. In baseball not only is there no crying there’s no win/win.

Olson experienced soreness in his right ring finger, specifically affecting his ability to grip his changeup. Treatment: He received an injection to address the inflammation and hopes it will resolve the issue. Rehab: He is currently working his way back through a throwing program, including bullpen sessions and throwing off flat ground. Return Timeline: Olson is optimistic about his return but acknowledges that the recovery may take longer than initially anticipated.

I hope you’re right.

I just watched the two extra innings in the Rays Boston game and the umpire handed the victory to the Rays by calling a strike on a pitch that was maybe three or 4 inches below the strike zone. Joey‘s brother got tossed and even the Rays announcers were rolling their eyes about what a bad call it was. So it goes ask Kurt Vonnegut would say. At least it’s not as bad as the fire bombing Dresden.

I think they should use mannequins or crash test dummies. And they should be looking at their phones the whole time for realism.

I was watching that and when I watch other teams, which is rare, it feels like they’re living in the last century. They’re always talking about how it’s “hard for a guy to come off the bench after six or seven days without swinging the bat” and that doesn’t happen with the Tigers. Nobody seems to be going from 1st to 3rd the way the Tigers do. The Tigers play a different brand of baseball. And a lot of the broadcast teams seem like stuffy old fogies in suits and if I’m 73 years old and I think they’re old fogies they are. I like our broadcast crews on both TV and radio both a lot more than what I hear on other broadcasts.

Actually, a year and a half ago or so they jumped mine up from $12.99 a month or something to $29.99. And there’s almost no local news. They never sent me an email letting me know this was going to happen so maybe they have lowered their prices locally I don’t know, but I’ve learned to live without it

I watch some “art house“ films, not a lot but some, and I just watched the independent 2017 film Columbus shot entirely on location in Columbus, Indiana. This southern Indiana town is recognized worldwide for its stunning modernist architecture, a fact of supreme indifference to most of its citizens. In fact, this was entirely lost on me when I visited Columbus several times when I lived in nearby Bloomington. Now 50 years too late I get it. Would’ve could’ve should’ve… Casey, a 19 year-old librarian who is going nowhere and whose mom is a recovering meth addict, finds solace in architecture when she looks at a building in her hometown for the hundredth time and finally senses its serene healing beauty. It sounds overwrought and painfully sensitive, but the film makes you a believer. She befriends Jin, played by Korean actor John Cho, who is in town standing watch at the hospital over his dying father, a famous architecture scholar. The story of their friendship is not sentimental or cloying, but honest and authentic. They bond over this common passion for architecture and help each other move on to the next stage in their lives. It’s very believable and nothing at all like a schmaltzy Hallmark film. The queen of Indie films Parker Posey is in it too. Every shot in the film is magnificent and breathtakingly composed.

Even Keith Law doesn’t hate us anymore or so I’ve heard it rumored.

They are people worried about optics because they themselves are kind of shallow and in search of things to gab about. It’s hard to believe, though, that this is cause for any serious consternation. I think it’s interesting that 80% of the seats are sold, and most of them are sold to corporations. I’m curious as to why they’re not selling single seat tickets probably because people complained that the amenities they were paying for are not available which is a fair complaint.