IdahoBert

♬ALL WE DO IS WIN♬

Bah humbug. No hitters are fascist anyway. They are distraction. Let’s just settle down and win this game.

Bligh Madris doubles (3) on a sharp line drive to right fielder Mitch Haniger. Matt Vierling scores. Fielding error by right fielder Mitch Haniger.

Skubal only 24 tosses after 2 innings. Kirby 47.

There’s times I wish I weren’t such a love struck sap for this team. 64 years. You could send out dogs with D’s on their jerseys wearing nifty little hats and I would still love them. West Coast night game. Dan on the radio. Damn. She can be such a faithless and untrustworthy girlfriend, but I never stop loving her. It’s a beautiful sort of pathology.

Made Kirby use 28 pitches to get out of the 1st.

Matt Vierling singles on a ground ball to shortstop Leo Rivas.

Wenceel Pérez homers (9) on a fly ball to right field.

I’m not into watching the game on a laptop. Thanks anyway, though. If I were Jason Bourne, I could figure out how to do this on a pre-paid flip phone and project it onto a wall in my study, but I’m not Jason Bourne. 😉 So I’m into either the radio, or my TV. One year where one of the two IP’s associated with my Internet had become Bartlesville, Oklahoma thru error for some bizarre reason, MLB was kind enough when I called them to remove all blackout restrictions for that season because if I lived in Oklahoma there’d be several overlapping MLB territories I couldn’t see. That one year I was able to watch games where we played the Mariners.

Since I live under the shadow of death that is the monopolized broadcast viewing area of the Seattle Mariners, and even though this was the free game of the day on mlb.tv, I couldn’t watch it and completely forgot about it. It’s a nice place to see a game. Saw one there maybe 10-12 years ago and at least a third of the crowd was rooting for the Tigers. Along the touristy waterfront near the ballpark half of everybody was wearing hats with the D or Tigers jerseys. It was a good feeling, but we lost the game. As I recall it was 3-2

The White Sox play the Athletics in an hour in Oakland. Technically, this is a team the White Sox could defeat, although I don’t remember us having a lot of success with them this year. We lost 2 of 3.

The White Sox just lost their 20th game in the row, and the first team to do this since 1988. If anyone is looking for one of those “there but for the grace of God go I” moments, you are welcome.

Jeez Louise. Giving up a three run homer in the top of the ninth. I get the feeling sometimes that we are like the minister in the 1953 War of the Worlds who goes out holding up a Bible in front of the Martian’s death rays.

So, Shelby Miller… I’m hoping I don’t need to head into my fallout shelter.

Brant Hurter pitched like he was facing a Tigers lineup that’s flummoxed by a rookie with stuff they’ve never seen before.

Not a lot of action on the game thread today. Probably a record for a low number of posts. People must be watching grass grow today or synchronized swimming, which is just about the same thing.

Not a lot of velocity on that first pitch of the game.

I was rooting for Americans or Canadians to win the men’s road racing Olympic gold medal today and that didn’t happen, but the Tigers winning makes up for it really really well.

DETwin probability:100.0%(37.2)

It would be too tedious to check box scores, but I have a feeling there aren’t many clubs where the 7,8, and 9 hitters in the batting order are sub .200 hitters. Jeez.

If this keeps up the attendance figures in September are going to be really bad once kids go back to school and there’s fewer families coming to games. It’s a real shame. There’s been a lot of bad luck in terms of injuries and under performance. Hinch can only play the guys he’s got and it’s not like there’s major league ready guys that he’s holding back out of spite. They have given us some really good times this year, surprisingly good times. I don’t think there are many more of those times in the offing. They may have a few more 10 run blowouts in the tank. I don’t know. I don’t think this is something you can coach yourself out of and turn coal into diamonds very quickly.

I wish my mom hadn’t got rid of my stamp collection 47 years ago because right now if I had it that would be more fulfilling to engage with than this game.