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Fulmer doing well with that shorter slider. He doesn't seem to yank it as often as the big breaker.

decent AB for Tork there, but not quite barreled. But Sousa didn't try to work him outside....(or tried and failed)

Javy swung at a strike. Baby steps.

if it's something he has to travel to travel to Venezuela for then who knows if he could be back in less than 7 days. FWIW, he pitched really well in the rehab start, you would think that argues against it being a baseball issue.

Funny, he has never hit LHP better and nowadays with his preference to inside out the ball, he really does not like it when a LHP comes inside on him. He fouled off the two on the inside, but when Sousa left one on the outside he tagged it.

no, but OTOH, I don't expect them to continually take counterproductive approaches without adjusting. Last season we did see Baddoo make adjustments when pitchers shifted their approach on him - could be Torkelson is just stubborn, in which case a trip to the minors can be an appropriate tool.

Mr Tiger always said that when you step into the box you better have an idea what the pitcher is trying to do to you. Whatever kind of scouting/advice Tork is getting is not preparing him because they have been working him outside for weeks and he is still spending all his time looking for pitches to pull.

Torkelson takes two more outside pitches for called strikes to get in a hole and then Ks swinging at third worse than the 1st two. I'm seeing increasing reasons to think Coolbaugh must really be useless.

it would be much more merciful to just call it now.....

that should take care of this one....

heavy rain sliding to the south...

old Javy reappears.

tigers need to tie this game before the rain can travel another 30 miles....

Thunder being heard in A^2

Vest cannot throw a breaking ball for a strike and he's a breaking ball pitcher. Not a good combination.

funny thing is that it sounds just like old time AM radio interference like an airplane flying past the transmitter, but the internet stream should be hard wired all the way so it must be some kind of funny sounding packet loss effect.

LOL. Harold took a cookie for strike one, but then got another one anyway, and popped it up.

Tork has to make peace with the fact that he is going to see nothing but balls on the outside corner until he decides to try and do some damage on them instead of trying to work walks against guys who can throw the pitch out there for a strike.

I haven't made any effort to look into why, but something seems to have evolved in surgical technique on Achilles repairs pretty recently. Look at Kevin Durant for instance - - and he isn't the only recent high level recovery, so I guess we need to wait and see.

I believe the mid-east country with the highest gun ownership is Yemen, but they've had various civil wars going for maybe 30 of the last 60 yrs. Again, not a model anyone should want to emulate.

I wasn't referring to the hearings, I meant the way the MAGA crowd consumes the lies.

Yeah - I'm sure there is a theory behind the step wise increases, but OTOH, if you know you really have to get to 'X' percent (say 4.00) what is the downside of just going there? I suppose it roils too many transactions in progress, but it would do the job a lot faster.

hitters drive me crazy. Torkelson should have know there was about a 95% probability the 4th pitch was going to be on the outside edge, so instead of going with it and getting an RBI, he takes strike two and end up in a hole. This team is always hitting at strike two - they need to be more aggressive earlier. Batting averages are about 100 with 2 strikes, which is just where the Tigers are......

and he couldn't talk to Trotz until yesterday.....

very nice.