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Those teams have a collective 142–101 record.

After this next final game with Texas, the Tigers play 12 of their next 20 games against NL teams, nine of them at home.

Remember when Brad Ausmus used to leave a guy in past the point of no return to “give him confidence?”

Flaherty was traded for this guy.

I hope they trade Flaherty for someone who knows how to hit the baseball really hard really far really often.

Lynn’s take.

Jake! Missed this game because for the last 8 Mondays I’ve gone to the local Regal Theater and seen in succession all of the Spider-Man movies: the 3 Toby Maguire’s and the 2 Andrew Garfield‘s and ending tonight with Spider-Man: No Way Home that unites all 3 Spider-Man’s. What a treat to go “oh yeah“ and open my phone and see this win. And in my humble opinion Toby Maguire is still the king. GO TIGERS!

We know that he is capable of hitting the baseball on occasion so even though he doesn’t have an overall athleticism, he does possess this one aspect of athleticism so maybe he’s just a head case and needs the help of a baseball version of a “horse whisperer” but we don’t have one.

Hitting a projectile thrown at high velocity with a stick over and over again, or throwing a projectile and making it do funny stuff to confuse or throw the guy with the stick off balance are two of the most sparsely distributed talents in the world. There are small number of people functioning on the planet at one time that can do that at the highest levels. It’s no surprise that guys wash out.

Tork hit something like 63 homers in 159 college and summer league games. Which is an awful lot. He even had a high BA and could walk. But a guy who’s playing first base in college isn’t much of an athlete overall. I don’t know if there were other more “complete players” available in the first round or not. But my non-expert take on it was that he had a good chance of being a one-dimensional guy, and that without an overall athleticism expressed in the ability to play a more demanding position he might not be up to the challenges he’d face. He may simply not have either the reflexes or the mentality to adjust when he’s being figured out. It’s a drag.

I came back from my walk in the foothills and a big Mexican meal and a couple beers so exhausted that I fell asleep after the first batter in the top of the ninth and just assumed we’d figure out how to lose. I should take more midday naps. The world’s a better place when I take a nap and wake up.

Never mind me I just don’t get a chance to troll that often.

Chafin has more W’s than Olson so he must be better! I’m about results!

Wong Gone.

Chafin got the W! That must mean he’s really good!

I don’t watch a lot on Apple TV, but I’ve really enjoyed the Foundation series and some of their nature programs and Richard Attenborough type stuff. I like the Godzilla TV show with Kurt Russell in it too

I’ll miss this game because I hike in the foothills with a friend on Sundays. Already re-watched “Godzilla Minus One” on Netflix and Critérium du Dauphiné on Peacock today and I hope when I open my phone at lunch we will have scored double digits because this happens on occasion.

No Tork.

Getting pretty deep into this game for three homers so it’s going to have to go into extra innings.

I’m calling it, and you heard it here first, Tork with 3 HRs and 7 RBIs in this game.