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Wow.

Looks like Finnegan is the pitcher of record.

Phew! So the Tigers have the best record in the AL, we have come from behind to have a large lead against our closest rival in the Central, they’re wearing their City Connects, and my understanding that Keith Law no longer hates the Tigers and has stopped burning incense to Satan to seek their demise. What else have I forgotten?

Wenceel Pérez singles on a line drive to left fielder Nick Loftin. Gleyber Torres scores. Spencer Torkelson to 2nd.

My cup runneth over. 6-3.

5-3. I just can’t believe this sometimes.

Andy Ibáñez singles on a sharp line drive to left fielder Nick Loftin. Javier Báez scores.

Javier Báez singles on a line drive to right fielder Randal Grichuk. Zach McKinstry scores. Javier Báez to 3rd. Throwing error by right fielder Randal Grichuk.

Mize taketh away, Zach and Riley giveth.

Riley Greene homers (30) on a fly ball to right center field. Gleyber Torres scores.

At least Casey’s pitch count is average for this point in the game… <ducks>

Oh heck, I just now realized I’m going to have to suffer through those in-game interviews where players on the field are miked up and dividing their attention between the game and entertaining the audience.

Keith 3B Torres 2B Carpenter DH Greene, R LF Torkelson 1B Pérez, W RF Dingler C McKinstry SS Báez, J CF

The rubber really meets the road in these next few games. To me these next couple series feel like playoff games in the sense that they are indicative of whether the most recent upsurge of the Tigers is sustainable.

By the way, the “pregame“ on Apple TV begins at 6:30 PM.

The Tigers who are 16–7 since July 27 are just barely ahead of the Royals — 15-8 — for the best record in the same timeframe. Time to cool off the Royales with Cheese.

Drew Sommers… Drew Sommers… is he the next Cal Raleigh only for relievers? Had not heard any buzz about him. I wish we could have one of these rookies who comes up and hits eight home runs the first week like everybody else. I hope Drew Sommers becomes a thing.

I tried to get into it, but it didn’t intrigue me enough, and I wasn’t sure I wanted to spend that much time in an alternate reality which would detract from my immersion in the alternate reality of the Detroit Tigers which is more immediate and real, and to which I have a long-standing connection.

I watched S3 E7 of Foundation on Apple TV just last night. The Studio was really great too. So since I already have access to it, I don’t have any complaints. I’m constantly being told Slow Horses is incredible as well as Severance, but I don’t know how much more time I can spend watching a screen and not living a real life.

The “are they going to the playoffs?” sounds like a quintessential non-baseball fan thing to say. A baseball season is like walking with your friends from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and only taking a day off every 10 days or so. It’s like a pilgrimage. It takes a long time because there are so many games. Rain or shine you’re out there. Sometimes staying in a campground, or taking shelter under a bridge and sometimes staying in fine hotel nursing your sore feet. A baseball team is a commitment, a vocation, and it’s not a walk in the park. The journey is more important than the destination. The playoffs so-called seem a long way off. Relish the moment, relish the scenery of the eternal now. Time is extended. Other sports only occur once a week, have set timetables, and sometimes have a two week gap and that’s not much time walking. It’s easier to think about the destination and consider that the only sustenance. You’re never really nursing sore feet. A baseball season is like an entire lifespan and the next year you rise from the dead and you’re in a brand new body and you can do it all over again having lost some compadres and gained some new ones. Sometimes at the end of a season’s coast to coast walk, something really special will happen and it will bind peoples hearts and minds together for generations, and when they talk about it and share that moment their voices will quiver with emotion. And that’s better than fantasizing about “playoffs.“

I think the Tigers are already in Skubal‘s rearview mirror. He is a business more than he is a person. Yes the Tigers could sign him to the kind of contract he wants, but I don’t think they’ll do it. He knows this and his agent knows it. I just hope the Tigers get more than a draft pick out of this.