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Sadly, probably an easy day tomorrow for Toronto. They go against Johan Oviedo who has thrown exactly one inning since coming off the DL from his TJ surgery last year. It's shapes up as a bullpen day for Pit with Oviedo as opener.

OTOH, Framber has had a lot of success against the Tiger the last two seasons. Long term trend, meet short term trend.

Vest was pitcher of record when the run was scored. He got the win.

If they close out the season at .586 that would be 94 or 95 wins. That's probably a soild #2 seed. 97 probably gets them the #1 seed.

28 scoreless for the Astros.

Ump is pretty terrible for both sides

Astros trying to give it away, not quite succeeding.

Good for Tork for not stopping on that .

Hinch's strategy may be correct but snake eyes so far tonight. Used his RHH and got nothing out of them

If that bat doesn't break, that probably clears the IF. Game of wood grains.

I think I would let Colt hit, but we'll see.

bad Javy AB

heavy enforcement.

Carpenter flashing the leather again tonight.

I think it was a better play than it looked. Where he was standing he was sort of half on/off the mound and throwing half off the mound where you don't know where your front foot is going to land is where a lot of pitchers screw up, so I'm guessing he just decided to soft toss it carefully.

No decision for either starter.

Well, they both lived up to their billing tonight.

Heart of the order against Brown at 80+ pitches and Nada.

It's all about the show. Most everything with Trump is.

One the bright side, they probably took at least an innning off of Brown's night.

Nothing like giving Skubal some time to sit.....

Tork has swung at two pitches he couldn't handle before there were 2 strikes

Swung at tough pitch 3-1. Should have let that one go Tork.

LOL - for many years, the PA announcer at Michigan Stadium for the football games was Carl Grapentine. At the of every game he would announce the change in the traffic pattern on Main street down to I-94 as follows: "Traffic Southbound on Ann-Arbor Saline road will be one-way following the game". No kidding Carl? Cracked me up every time. At some point he must have started doing it on purpose because it had become tradition I think.

With Vance I'd settle for improvements in three out of four.