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A “group effort no no” sounds sort of dicey.

Ruh-roh, it’s one of those games…

Slow game thread tonight. So is somebody handing out free money on the Internet? Shoot me a link.

Good 3rd inning by Hurter

CARP BOMB

This series with Baltimore is where the rubber really meets the road. I’m just looking forward to some good or even hopeful play rather than bad play. But this team has surprised the heck out of me and a lot of us in this recent run and it’s completely legitimate to get excited about a wildcard, although I find it hard to invest too much emotion into it myself. But I want to reiterate how shocked I am by the successes and how entertaining and hopeful this team’s play has been these last few weeks. In my lifetime, we’ve won two World Series which were spectacular and glorious, and we’ve lost two that were really, really painful. So I’ve known great joy, but I’m philosophical about this and it’s sort of like walking to school uphill both to and from and eating the bark off of trees and being grateful. I’m going to be grateful for all the unexpected good signs this season has had to offer and however many more games we win I will be pretty much OK. For fans who haven’t enjoyed these heights I really want this for you. You deserve it. Good luck to us all in however our hopes and dreams may play out. This series will be a signature test.

I was looking for that in my photo collection and couldn’t find it so thanks now I have it.

Moran is an injoke we’ve traded in for many years. It was derived from a guy with a durag on his head, holding a sign calling other people morons, and he misspelled it.

It’s like he didn’t want the season to extend into the playoffs. Sounds like he’s in a really strange emotional, psychological space which of course happens, I get it but wow, I’ve never heard of anything like this happening.

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Sports/sources-twins-cut-minor-league-catcher-derek-bender/story?id=113650216 Twins cut minor league catcher Derek Bender for tipping pitches to Lakeland

Nobody can expect to sweep every series against even bad teams. Even bad teams are filled with the best professional athletes in this discipline in the world.

Down 3-2.

That’s not fair. Colorado sending in a guy who’s throwing 100 miles an hour?

Pitcher wins are fascist.

It’s always a mistake when I go on a Tigers-oriented Facebook page and read the blathering idiocy of ordinary fans. It makes me appreciate this place even though we are Morans. Two or three months ago, scores of ordinary fans on a Facebook Tigers page were venting their rage at Verlander claiming that he had left the team in free agency for more money and they could never forgive him. There were so many of them almost no one could be heard over their grunts that simulated reasoned discourse Just now it was white hot rage at the Jack Flaherty trade that anyone with brain tissue knew was inevitable. Even though we are fewer than we once were, I’m glad the few of us who remain are still together.

It’s a win, and ugly or not, it’s a win and I’ll take it.

Hope Mize doesn’t give it all back.

Home Run Trey Sweeney homers (4) on a fly ball to right field. Spencer Torkelson scores. Jace Jung scores.

3-0 w a buncha stuff happening.

Riley Greene homers (21) on a fly ball to right center field.

Mize struck out the first guy without barely being in the strike zone. I guess whatever works.