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Clark doubles in two

Guenther to the rescue.

Five runs scored in the bottom of the fifth by the Pirates and still no outs. I’m glad this is generally meaningless.

Four scoreless frames and 65 pitches. I’m presuming that Montero is finished for the day but who knows.

Montero gets out of a sticky situation in the third inning

4-0 Tigers.

It’s raining runs hallelujah

Dingler HR

The Tigers brought Tork at 1st on the road for this game.

My personal situation, because I’m retired, is that I have time on my hands during the day so it bugs me when these spring games begin as “night games.“ i’ve got plenty of other choices of things to do - not unlimited still other things - but the path of least resistance is to just idly follow a game like a bump on a log.

This is really fascinating thank you it makes it seem a little less dubious.

As it turns out, Torkelson only got one at bat at DH

Hopefully they just wanted to get Tork a couple at bats

I’m not watching this game, but I can tell from the box score it didn’t turn out well.

Getting roughed up by the New York Yankees is a learning experience. This is something you overcome.

Another home run. Definitely should’ve gone the juice box route.

Jobe serves up a 2-run HR.

Jobe has gone a whole 40 pitches in three innings! This is serious.We should stop the game, put him in short pants under a tree, and give him a juice box.

Well, I’m all for that kind of stuff. In fact that makes me like him more, but I’m not cutting him any slack for a 395 foot power alley in left field dimension.

Jobe Ks two in the second. But yeah, we need to send him down to Toledo and pamper his ass, right? I’m gonna go all High Plains Drifter on the next person that suggests this.

Gleyber Torres homers (3) on a fly ball to left center field. Thank you, thank you, thank God, for you, the wind beneath my wings…

Jobe with a clean 8-pitch first.

No Torkelson in the starting lineup today. I wonder if he’s being traded for a bag of magic beans and a unicorn today and he’s undergoing a physical.

Does any real baseball person talk this way?

No one will probably read this because the game threads are not well visited lately, but I was able to discern who’s responsible for Comerica Park being abnormally large even though it has shrunk in recent years. Everyone else may well be aware of this, but I find the casually considered logic behind this reasoning to be stupendously inane. 395 feet to the left-field power alley? “As we were suffering through some years of pitching that wasn’t very good, all of us realized that very few ballparks penalize bad pitching as much as Tiger Stadium does,” then-Tigers president John McHale told the Detroit Free Press just before the ballpark opened in 2000. “So we thought it might be interesting to design a park where there was a dimension that would allow a pitcher -- if he threw it in the appropriate place and could induce the batter to hit it -- to be reasonably sure of a long, relatively harmless fly ball.” https://www.mlb.com/news/comerica-park-dimensions-history