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Jack gets out of it with a DP to end his night

Jack walks Bigfoot. He has now walked three of the last seven batters.

The bullpen has been up since the start of the sixth. But Jack rises to the occasion and strikes out Bobby Witt Jr. to begin the inning….

Nope. Another weak inning.

Looks like it’ll take at least two runs to win this game now, just like last night.

Come on Jack find a strike zone

The radio feed is now synced with the MLB.TV picture. Go figure. I did nothing to make it happen, although it did happen immediately after the dozen cute young women wearing pink Tiers caps in the stands came on screen. I think that may have been what tipped the balance.

Good Jack shows up for the fourth.

That might be true. I’ve never seen that particular move. A perfect combination of athleticism and acumen. Almost like ballet at home plate.

They never touched Javy. He avoided the tag and touched home plate with his hand. That is classic pro baseball.

On McKinstry out at home that’s a classic tigers play of being aggressive and it took a really good throw and a really good tag to get him out so it was a calculated risk.

Did McKinstry just break his wrist and dislocate his shoulder?

Yeah, it won’t. It also won’t have any effect upon the fact that the Tigers post game show has inaudible sound either.

Jack strikes out the side in the top of the second whoa!

I might think about that later, but not during the game. I don’t have a lot of hope that that’ll make a difference.

Jack strikes out the first two in the top of the second quite quickly

Quick eight pitch three up three down inning for Jack!

Once again on mlb.tv the radio feed is five seconds behind the TV picture. It’s almost like they don’t want you to use this option. Earlier in the the season it actually worked correctly. This is a drag.

It would be nice to see our offense hit the ground scoring runs right away tonight. I’m in the mood for a celebratory laugher, not a nailbiter.

Field has no tarp. Looks good!

In the segment recorded with tigers officials and Kevin talking, it was apparently the first time in his life he had worn a suit aside from a tux to prom.

Wow, instead of their usual 10 minutes with nothing to talk about “pregame” show for today’s Tigers game I guess the contract extension of KM is big enough news for them to begin 20 minutes sooner than usual.

Getting back to béisbol, which has incidentally been very, very good to me: McGonigle SS Torres 2B Keith DH Greene, R LF Torkelson 1B Carpenter RF McKinstry 3B Báez, J CF Rogers C

When I lived in Tucson 50 years ago I fell in with a group of former Detroiters and none of them used the N word. Over a period of 13 years until I moved - 1974 to 1987 - I don’t ever remember hearing it once. We never talked about it, I never asked them about it, and didn’t even think about it until now, but either they knew better or it just wasn’t something that was natural to them to do.

So, is there any evidence the Tigers are drafting players who have a greater ability to play at Comerica Park specifically? Are they not drafting 6’6” high strike out pull hitters that are better suited to playing in band box parks?