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Spencer Torkelson homers (31) on a fly ball to left field. Jahmai Jones scores.

They don’t appear to be the same team they were for almost a year, although it’s hard for me to be objective about this because I have such an emotional investment in them.

Well, so much for that.

Montero pitching a no-hitter so far and if he can go 178 tosses today it will be in the books.

Tork ribby

I’m grateful Keider did not give up a homer or walk the first batter. But he walks the second batter.

I was going to complain that I wanted this to be a day game because I just want get the punishment over quickly and then I checked and it is a day game so I got my “wish.” I should be more ambitious about my “wishes.”

I don’t want beat up on this team or blame anyone in the front office or players on the field. They vastly exceeded expectations for a considerable period of time so their stumbles now in comparison seem inexplicable, even treasonous. The endorphin and dopamine rushes I’ve got from this ball club for over a year are dizzying. The Tigers are like Icarus from Greek mythology who flew too close to the sun with wings made of feathers and wax, causing the wax to melt and him to fall into the sea and drown. The Tigers, though, are not dead yet. I think in general, I just need to be grateful for the joy they’ve given me for most of the last year. It’s actually childish to lash out. I’m old enough to know better and actually I’m kind of sobering up in this regard.

Riley Greene’s WAR according to BR is 2.5 this year and was 5.4 last year. I know his OBP is lower this year. What’s going on?

I’m not listening to much, but my son is in Chicago this weekend for Riot Fest. He’s 23 and he’s never been in a big city with his friends without parental supervision and he’s having the time of his life staying at the Hilton across from Grant Park. Other than Weird Al, I’m not sure who else he saw today and I’m not expecting him to constantly update me. Tomorrow among other things, he’s seeing Jack White and The Beach Boys. Tomorrow Green Day closes the show with about two hours of music. He went to the museum of science and industry this morning and was completely blown away. Everything is occurring at Douglas Park and there’s more groups playing in three days than I care to count. I’m really happy for him. I did count and there’s roughly 90 bands https://riotfest.org/chicago/lineup/

8-1.

That’s my understanding too

Know if these guys that we prize so highly in the minors — and everybody else prizes so highly — get up here and struggle like Jung or Keith did initially, I’ll be really pissed off.

Goodbye Charlie Morton. At least somebody got six runs.

I follow this team to escape from reality, not have my nose rubbed in it. That may not speak well of me, but that’s the way it is.

I’m going back to Diana Rigg.

Jung is now officially on the roster while Keith is not.

This is good to know. Thanks for sharing this.

I don’t know how much tension and unfulfillment I can take. The last few days I’ve been watching the Diana Rigg era of the two seasons she was on the Avengers and while that’s tense it’s very fulfilling, which is better than the tigers lately.

Zach McKinstry has really stopped being the guy we got used to earlier in the year. His last 30 games have been pretty bad and in his last seven games he’s 0 for 16. I haven’t watched a lot of games closely during the bad stretch so I don’t know if he’s making up for any of this in the field.

It’s a very bad stretch. In the last 7 games, the Tigers have been out scored 17–37. And have a 1-6 record. Maybe they’re due for an upturn. I sure hope so.

When I saw that we were already onto the second page of a game that’s five hours away I was worried that something catastrophic happened or that something good happened like the whole Cleveland team had been banned for betting.

Of course Ramirez homered. If he could, he’d steal a base during a homer.

The Tigers can’t seem to hit anybody except the Yankees.