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Nolan Schanuel homers (10) on a fly ball to right field. Bryce Teodosio scores. 7-2 Tigers lead.

My work here is done and the fourth inning isn’t even over yet.

Kerry Carpenter homers (21) on a fly ball to right field. Colt Keith scores. Gleyber Torres scores.

Three hits in a row with no outs. Gleyber Torres singles on a line drive to right fielder Jo Adell. Javier Báez scores. Colt Keith to 3rd.

Yeah, there’s bound to be a few.

Neto gets a Tiger’s like double.

I only just now got home and I have not been able to watch this game on TV but I haven’t seen this umpire having an egregious call regarding the strike zone yet

Kerry Carpenter out on a sacrifice fly to right fielder Jo Adell. Trey Sweeney scores.

Bases loaded with one out for carpenter

Riley Greene singles on a sharp line drive to right fielder Jo Adell. Kerry Carpenter scores.

No Matty is not that big a deal because we haven’t really had him much, although we need a live body out there, but losing Perez is a big deal.

What’s the parlay on giving up two or more runs in the first inning? Just trying to be prepared.

The whole world is hanging by a thread right now. It’s indecent to expend too much emotion on this situation I guess.

And we did. And I’m not pitching a fit.

I’m out I think…

Jeez Louise this nailbiting stuff…

Sigh…

So all this Hall of Fame talk, do these announcers know something we don’t, or are they just talking?

I have nothing against an appreciation for the psychological and affective aspects of this game, but all of the chatter about “momentum“ rubs me the wrong way. I don’t think ball players or teams are empty vessels pushed around by statistical probability, but I’m not a big fan of the voodoo of “momentum“ either.

So I’m wondering how much MLB teams are paying for the secret dossier on how to get first inning runs against Tigers starters?

YouTube is spectacular for all sorts of things and I rely upon it daily. Facebook too has been great for staying in touch with friends I met in college over 50 years ago.

Searches also take me there all the time for so many different things and I realized early on many years ago that it was a rabbit hole I could go down and from which I might have trouble escaping. And I had just then discovered the rabbit hole of this site and I knew I couldn’t afford to go down one more. I’m actually kind of amazed at the mature restraint I was able to show in the face of such a temptation.

No Riley Greene in the lineup, at least the starting lineup, today.

MATT VIERLING RF GLEYBER TORRES 2B JAHMAI JONES LF SPENCER TORKELSON 1B WENCEEL PÉREZ CF ANDY IBÁÑEZ ЗВ DILLON DINGLER DH JAVIER BÁEZ SS JAKE ROGERS C CHARLIE MORTON SP

There are apps I’ve purposely never signed up for such as Reddit, Instagram, TikTok, because I am often looking at my phone hours a day and being seduced into doubling that time in an alternate reality is unwise.