IdahoBert

And another one reaches the seats

At the rate we’re going it might be days before we score another three runs to even dream of tying.

Screwed on a Weaver

That was not a hard hit ball down the left field line, but it’s enough to score a runner from First. 1-1.

The ump is not making friends and influencing people with some of his calls tonight

The Tigers do Morty not much good by giving Lauer 4-pitch frame.

Morty’s cheeks are flushed more than usual in this heat.

Just saw the news and realized that I outlived Hulk Hogan so I win. I’m 73. He was 71.

Maybe I should try to go back to sleep and they’ll score more runs, but I probably already messed up my sleep schedule for tonight by taking a mid-afternoon nap.

Immediately waking to a home run was a nice surprise.

Whoa! I just awoke from rare 2 hour “nap” in the middle of the afternoon and I’m dizzy as heck. And we score early! I lived in a strange alternate universe where two old time stadiums were crammed right next to each other - only a few feet apart - and were connected by a creaky, old-fashioned delivery elevator that served as a space-time cosmic wormhole. It was a slow, noisy delivery elevator, big enough to hold a model T auto, with an imposing gate that automatically rose slowly and loudly making frightening grinding noises every time you ascended to a new floor. Everything smelled of polished oiled wood and was permeated by the exotic smells of an early 20th century tobacconist shop. There was a news stand off the delivery elevator and it looked like something out of a movie from the 1920s. There were newspapers in foreign languages I couldn’t understand on racks in the news stand, and some of the papers were printed on vibrant yellow or pink newspaper like sports-oriented newspapers of France and Italy. Prominently displayed was the newest issue - 1920s - of the Sporting News printed in St. Louis. The teams were the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals but the ballparks were ancient yet well-maintained. It was definitely not 2025. Out of the delivery elevator as it rose to different floors I could look down upon the ballfields of either stadium if I glanced to either my left or my right and the stadiums were empty as if I had arrived hours before game time, or as if they were yet to be populated because I was in between space time moments where only something or nothing at all could occur. I was hoping to rent a flop house room in one of the hallways off the delivery elevator for $2 dollars a night and was planning to get a shave and a haircut at the barbershop with a hypnotizing, revolving red and white barber pole before the games began and was trying to decide which game to attend when I woke up.

I honestly don’t think they’re as bad as they’ve been lately but they’re certainly not a .667 team.

“And so it goes.“ - Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five

Getting ready for my walk along the river today and I’m sitting on a bench in front of a candy store and Mr. Jelly Belly is a little too friendly but at least he doesn’t talk a blue streak. Have a good game fellow travelers.

I’m missing the entirety of this game tomorrow as it’s my day to walk with my pal along the Boise River. Then I’m eating a gluttonous meal of exquisite Vietnamese food, and consuming mass quantities of fluids to wash it down. By the time it’s over this game will have finished. I wish all of us well and all the luck we haven’t experienced for too long.

I gave up on this game and watched Jason Statham’s Wrath of Man instead. It’s not a particularly good movie, but it’s better than this game.

Jake has been getting the putouts at home and now he gets a Weaver.

Jake Rogers homers (2) on a fly ball to center field. Parker Meadows scores. Javier Báez scores.

Pirates challenged (tag play), call on the field was overturned: Zach McKinstry flies into a double play. So we didn’t get a run.

Apparently, yes, they didn’t change it very quickly in the box score but they have since. That’s why I was scratching my head.

We got our run!

Mize at 71 pitches and the third inning isn’t even over.