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the Kid's are alright. and Fletcher is an equal opportunity hack.

Willi has never had soft hands.

this is the part of the line-up to get some add-ons.

Don't Tiger relievers warm up right? How does a team whose BP pitches pretty well in general walk so many lead off men?

But that is at least in part because Jason also gives him a lot more spaces than Dan does.

McKinstry gets to 3rd. Still no out

Do not go gentle into that good night.

What an AB from #20

what an odd pitching pattern. Spotting perfect FBs a the top corner than missing every change.

Well let's see if Riley can rouse his sleeping bat against a RHP

Bad night for the troops. Fletcher was no doubt in Reese's head, for good reason.

True. But Olson has thrown way too many non-competitive pitches as well.

If Fletcher is consistently missing Olson's pitches it would be a good idea to get him out of there anyway.

Another ball called on fully ball in the zone strike.

two non-competitive pitches then HBP.

OK Olson is off the hook, lets have a short leash on Reese and not let him get himself in trouble again.

RUNZ!

Javy nailed that one but got BaBIP'd

Dan still whines about Tigers pitcher pitch count waaay too much. We get it. The guy is just going to pitch until he is done whenever that is - OK?

One hit through 4, we've seen this offense before, rather not see any more of it.

Torkelson pulling too many pitches.

Fastball rather than a slider though - which is probably worse

StOp nIBbLiNg!

It's an interesting game of chicken. Theoretically, with manufactured goods, the buying country should have more leverage because they have more options - they can use a different product, they can go without, they can try to build it themselves. OTOH, the producer is kind of stuck, if he cant sell his product his investment is wasted and his people are unemployed. Though the reality is there are still a lot of ways around those tariffs exactly because the US is trying to target to target China more exclusively, which leaves a million ways to trans-ship material around the tariffs.

key with Manning is always a >95 fastball. When he throws hard all his other stuff works better. They want him to throw that hard as a starter but they've been dinking around for 3 yrs and it's not happening, If he'll throw hard as reliever just move him there.