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LOL - and that team stole the most bases than any Tigers team going back to 2001.

LOL - true - you can't get to his stat page from the Tigers home page because he hasn't played with them yet - but via the Mud Hen's page: https://www.milb.com/player/matt-vierling-663837

three games in at DH for the Hens.

Lopsided loses can drive run differential to where the Pythagorean loses meaning. Cleveland has had some bullpen guys get really lit up - given up 10+ runs 4 times.

Could be. He hasn't played in the field yet, maybe he needs another clearance for that step. If it does he's probably still another week away though....

So if Veirling is rehabbing with the Hens and the Hens are in the middle of a ball game what was he doing in the Tiger dugout?

definitely - sort of expected a let down. But Skubal was sharp and even though they only scored 2 they hit the ball a lot better than the score - nothing was going to leave the yard tonight though. Somebody must have slipped in a case of soft baseballs.

I think the same story is in the A^2 News.

participation in arcane ritual also is an easy way to engender self-satisfaction in the parishioners. It feels like atonement, even though it's only empty gesture. The declension of religious hierarchies into hollow formalisms is a timeless phenomenon - no different today than in 30 AD Judea.

and they usually post a chunk of that on gameday.

he's reminds me a little of where Mize was in when he started out. He gets ahead of hitters but the hitters know he going to throw out of the zone when he's ahead so they spit on his breaking ball - in Mizes case it was the split. Then he gets frustrated and throws a mistake. Guys with great breaking balls or splitters have to prove they can get guys out in the zone when they get to the majors. Jobe has to throw more strikes ahead in the count.

The boys in the booth with this tidbit today: 38 games into the season, a Tiger starting pitcher has failed to go 4 innings exactly once - Jobe yesterday.

JHM had a good day today. I thought he had slumped his way into a ticket back to Toledo before today's DH. Jace may be playing batter 3b than Vierling can, but he's still not hitting.

Should lot of peace and harmony oozing from the Boston dugout by the time they get to Det next week. DH Devers - already smarting from losing his 3B position to Bregman, announced the team has asked him to pick up a glove and go to 1st after the injury to Tristan Casas. Dever's reply? Stuff it.

so which was #27 today? Montero or Hicklen?

don't give him any ideas or you'll see this in an all caps tweet before the end of the week.

He's set up to have the Tiger's only complete game again, but I don't think Hinch is sending him back out.

OTOH, though, if he doesn't start pitching with a little more consistency, the odds of him netting that draft pick will atart falling.

but without any Romans! Sort of like AT&T but no telegraphs.

The fixation on Latin is so odd. It's not even a throw back to some original base, like wanting the Torah read in Hebrew or the Quran in Arabic or Hindus venerating texts in Sanskrit. Latin may have been current at the time of the NT, but it wasn't the first language of any of the NT events let alone anything before that. All you are left with is that Latin backers don't want transparency, they want to maintain enigma as another method of protecting their prerogatives of interpretation and control, That most of the popes since VII have fought that rear-guard action is a good thing..

Tigers, Guardians, Twins, Royals on a collective 16-0 run.

true that

Terreible HP ump didn't help - looked like Jobe let it get under his skin a couple of times - another thing he has to learn to get over.

Mary Sue not up for another interim. Provost apparently not in line for the job ....or maybe is.

Torkelson busts it down the line with a 9 run lead. Earns himself a run scored.