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I don't think the Tigers have been 6 over 500 since the end of the 2016 season.

I'd still walk Witt.

I wonder if Erceg losing the glove caused just enough distraction for Witt.

Can't hit it much better...

Brieske showing maybe the best pure arm on the staff after Skubal.

He and Casey have the same problem - when it goes south, it's equatorial.

well, Parker hit what would have been a DP ball anyway....

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Miller pitching like he doesn't trust his stuff. Hope that's it for him

ML SS needs to make that play

Miller has lost the plate.

LOL - Baseball.

Tigers need a miracle here. Any good outing by Miller probably qualifies as such.

Miller is warming up. Hinch going to live dangerously tonight.

Digging a hole...

Mize can't buy a 1-2-3

KC getting back into defensive conversation as well.

they said Schoop - at least when he was younger, turned a DP about as fast as anyone. I don't know where Keith ranks now but he's faster than anyone we have had there since Schoop.

Mize has to learn to get control of his frustrations. Everything tends to snowball with Casey. He's just been lucky so far tonight to have superman in CF.

they also don't work - at least not without turning an economy into 1950's Russia. The real problem here is the incredible ignorance of the American voter. No-one should be able to get out of 8th grade without being able to see through the stupidity of most of the economic claims in an average US election. We used to understand that you couldn't operate a democracy in an uneducated nation (NorthWest Ordinance Article 3 - 1787!), but we've managed to drop the ball big time. And it's not because we don't educate per se, it's because we've made a conscious decision expressly not to educate about all the things that matter politically. There are PhDs all over the town I live in who couldn't argue their way out of a paper bag on any real-world question of political economy.

there is an odd dynamic going on today. Supposedly (I haven't personally checked this....) the party in power has been re-elected every time the market is up from August to October of the election year. It absolutely will this year as well, but but the information_sphere in the US is so corrupted today that half the population believes we are in a recession. And we have been so conditioned into being a nation full of whiney bitches that we persuade ourselves we are suffering like Subharan refugees while driving every vacation travel metric to new records and parking $90K SuperCrews in the driveway. Absolutely the middle class has gotten squeezed, but by any measure they are less squeezed than 4 yrs ago, and they should know the #1 route for middle class wages rising across the board is empowered unions negotiating contracts that push up the bar for everyone else. And do they think the GOP is going to keep that trend going?

Even Torkelson. Last year he was -11 Rrds. This yr -1, which even accounting for the smaller number of games is a huge improvement. On statcast he raised his OAA from -7 last yr to -2 so far this year.

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File under - Not likely to be reported on Fox: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-retail-sales-unexpectedly-rise-123759878.html

with a very few exceptions like Joaquin Benoit, the problem was never the pitchers, it was the batters. They could give the pitchers all the time they want and the game time wouldn't change much as long as they make the batter get in the box in 8 (?) seconds. They call the system a 'pitch clock' but the timing that made all the difference was on the batter. So a little semantic misdirection at work.