IdahoBert

When you think of guys who got good for a while and you didn’t expect it, names like Chris Shelton and Brennan Bosch come to mind. Their short-lived flashes of brilliance didn’t last. But Kevin has been on the radar from the start and has been expected to excel and overall we can reasonably expect him to rise to the occasion even though there will have to be a learning curve factored in here. I think we have good reason to believe we have more than a diamond in the rough on our hands here.

I was just now looking at our 2026 schedule and every month of the season, except for August, has a streak of 13–14 games straight tucked in there. Sheesh. I asked our robot overlords what it thought and it said that our schedule was “remarkably dense” with streaks of this magnitude compared to the past, and it blamed the necessity of scheduling at least one series against every team in MLB every year. The now common adage “you can never have enough arms“ seems pertinent here. Even as a fan it seems grueling. And it will be made worse by rainouts requiring make up dates, etc. etc..

Strange that tomorrow, Sunday, is a travel day. Have never seen that before, and I don’t remember it having ever occurred but I could be wrong. Must be one of those anomalies of early season scheduling.

You might want to choose your words, more carefully… 😉

Today was a success in so many ways and that was just one of the many successes.

This is really really really really really satisfying. And I never once posted in the wrong thread.

Kenley Jansen sounds like the name of a hot sorority girl, but in this case, nope.

Finnegan rose to the occasion.

Finnegan walks the first batter.

5-2 and this was accomplished against one of the best relief corps in baseball.

Dillon Dingler singles on a line drive to right fielder Fernando Tatis Jr. Riley Greene scores. Kevin McGonigle to 3rd.

Kevin McGonigle singles on a line drive to right fielder Fernando Tatis Jr. Gleyber Torres scores. Colt Keith scores. Riley Greene to 3rd. Holy Moly!

This team is good enough, and smart enough, and gosh darn it we sort of like them.

Kevin up bases loaded two outs. This is epic.

Bases loaded in one out and greene up this would be a good time for his new philosophy of situational hitting to come in to play

That inning with DeJesus ended up better than I thought

Seeing Verlander in a Tigers uniform in our own dugout makes me really verklempt.

Kaline would’ve caught that ball that Carpenter missed.

Torkelson is not Ricky Henderson.

Tork single and rbi! 1-1.

I would’ve preferred for Riley to strike out playing his golf swing rather than hitting into a double play

Padres pitcher King pulled after walking Torres tallying 82 tosses and one hit but four walks. I guess at this point in the season 82 pitches is a lot. I guess it depends on the pitcher.

Valdez needed a quick inning there and he got it.

Dillon Dingler hit by pitch.