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It’s not a lineup that should strike fear into any opposing team, but somehow they show up and play ball better than they probably should. Ask the Dodgers they could tell you this.

I feel sorry for the Mariners since they will have to deal with the humiliation of getting swept and losing to this lineup of rookies, the injured, and a permanently slumping overpaid veteran tonight. They may even question the nature of the universe and their place in it when they drag themselves back to the locker room and drive home in $200,000 cars to their Instagram model girlfriends in Scandinavian themed glass and steel penthouses overlooking the fantastic skyline of Seattle and ask themselves if life has any meaning at all. No, they won’t. They’ll suck it up and move onto tomorrow just like John Wick. Because that’s what men do. And they could beat the crap out of us, but I hope not.

Why doesn’t Seattle do a getaway day game on Thursday like we do? Jerks.

The Tigers got more hits in this game than the M’s had given up all this year in this park per Dan.

Holy Toledo!

♬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.