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Greene double!

Gipson-Long with a great first inning.

Javy flashing the leather. “Hey Gleyber, do this!”

I sure could use a game where we score runs in bunches.

Javy makes it 2-1.

Wenceel Just misses the home run

These long bats are killing us.

1-1. Hurter over. SB and a 10 pitch at bat that ended in a single made it possible.

Score more runs you big dummies!

Only 25 pitches after two innings for Hurter.

So much for the five-year contract that blocks all the kids from coming up.

Gleyber flubs a possible DP

That is Zach‘s sixth triple. What does he think he is, Granderson or something?

Wenceel SF 1-0

Triple Zach?

The art of pitch framing…

But he’s good enough and he’s smart enough…

10 Pitch walk for Riley Greene and he didn’t strike out.

I’m going to be disappointed if the Tigers don’t win at least two of these games. I probably shouldn’t be because they’re road games and few teams do well on the road, but we have Mize and Skubal pitching two of them. Hopefully Casey gets back to form tomorrow. And I will not waste any time worrying about Tarik. The Orioles, though, have been on the up-tick lately and they are at home and you have to play the games and nothing is for certain. Winning tonight‘s game would be truly spectacular because it’s the one we’re technically least like to win. If the bats awake from the doldrums, it could be a special series.

I don’t know. It may just be coincidental. I enjoy complaining. The suggestion was never made when we scored 30 runs against the Red Sox.

The pregame begins at 6 PM for all of you in the eastern time zone but for me 4 PM in mountain time. No chance for a collaborative two team FanDuel pregame show which was farcical during the series with St. Louis, because Baltimore is not FanDuel, but which I’d love to see again just for the awkward entertainment value involved. Wonder if there’ll be a Todd Jones sighting. He’s fallen off the radar for quite a while here.

I enjoyed seeing the Red Sox lose last night on my phone just before I fell asleep and of course as my iPhone spies on my activity, it informed Facebook of what I was doing and this is what came up on Facebook just now. All it took was one time, once, for Facebook to think I had forsaken the motherland and fatherland of baseball for me — the Detroit Tigers — for the algorithmically approved Boston Red Sox. It’s never thought of doing this for the Rockies or the Rays when I’ve watched those games, but when it comes to a “real team” like the Red Sox oh boy howdy, that’s red meat.

I necessarily share a certain terrain with other fans as equally infected by their team as we are by ours and maintain a certain sympathy for them, but that doesn’t make me any less hopeful that their doom and gloom in the next three games is affirmed. In baseball not only is there no crying there’s no win/win.

Olson experienced soreness in his right ring finger, specifically affecting his ability to grip his changeup. Treatment: He received an injection to address the inflammation and hopes it will resolve the issue. Rehab: He is currently working his way back through a throwing program, including bullpen sessions and throwing off flat ground. Return Timeline: Olson is optimistic about his return but acknowledges that the recovery may take longer than initially anticipated.

I hope you’re right.