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Gleyber Torres is the starting second baseman for Venezuela against the USA tonight. So that’s where he’s been since I’ve sort of forgotten about him.

Bassett went 89 pitches in 5.1 innings so he wasn’t economical, but he went pretty deep for spring training.

JV give us up a HR with two outs in the fifth, so it was a decent day all things considered. Had a chance to stretch out his arm.

Verlander still out for the fifth inning after allowing no runs having struck out five and walked nobody. I guess he did challenge the ball that was turned into a strike so the tigers are going to let at least some of the pitchers make this decision this year.

Top of the third was another three up three down for JV with one strikeout. Pitch count at a little better than average 43 after 3

I just missed a ball that was overturned to become a strike for JV, but I was out of the room for a while and I don’t know who asked that it would be reviewed. If it were JV himself that would be instructive about the manner in which the tigers are going to do this stuff this year.

I don’t think the Tigers will score 13 runs today…

Three up three down and 2K’s for JV in the top of the second.

So in the first inning against the Orioles, JV induces weak contact, gives up only a single to Pete Alonso, which is the best of a bad world, and ends up, striking out 1 in 17 pitches. That’s better than a string of home runs like last time.

There probably won’t be green uniforms today because of some Nike rule they get to make because of their “intimate relationship” with MLB. Something about four uniforms only or something like that and I find it too tedious to look up in detail. It probably won’t be any more than a green hat. I guess serendipitous playfulness is just ruled out now. And since this game only has radio coverage unless you’re physically at the game you wouldn’t get to see it anyway.

Meadows, P CF Báez, J SS Pérez, W DH Keith 1B Dingler C McGonigle 3B Vierling RF McKinstry 2B Jones, Jah LF

Today’s March 17 game in Lakeland against the Orioles has Verlander starting. And it’s St. Patrick’s Day! Will they wear green uniforms?

Somebody got it! Actually, it would’ve been interesting if at the beginning of the game, you could just kill Micah and see how things turned out.

Just watched Mike Flanagan‘s The Life of Chuck on Hulu and I liked it more than some of of the reviewers did who said it was too maudlin, contrived, and derivative of its source material in a Stephen King novella, but I still liked it. I’d figured it all out in the first few minutes, but it was still intriguing and worth my time. Had a great cast too.

Jack with 53 pitches after four innings so he’s pretty well assured of coming out in the fifth for another frame unless perhaps the Tigers bat around twice and score another 15 runs or something and he has to sit for 25 minutes…

Yes, against a righty that’s good, but not much of a righty unfortunately, but I’ll take it. Jones w/5 RBI today.

Jones 3-run double 11-3 good guys no outs bottom of the 3rd.

Phillies pitcher King has walked the bases loaded with no outs in the third inning.

TORK BOMB 8-3 Tigers in the 2nd.

I hope Jake starts exploiting this easily deceived home plate umpire.

I guess they finally challenged one of them successfully.

The ump has called three strikes in a row balls and the tigers haven’t challenged any of them.

AA ball player hits a three run home run off Flaherty in the top of the second.

Carpenter swung at a pitch way out of the strike zone in hopes of lofting it into the stiff wind to center but he struck out. They already had a brief cloudburst that wetted just a portion of the field.