Robbie Ray
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Tommy Milone
Two castoffs face off tonight. The Tigers decided they had too many[1] starting pitchers and Fister was the worst[2] of the bunch. Off he went to the Nationals and the Tigers get a few not-that-good players back. He is only 22 though.
The A's traded for the rest of the good pitchers in the league and Milone was the odd man out. He got traded for his own teammate.
[1]: The Tigers learned the hard way you can never have too many.
[2]: Fister's rWAR would be third on the Tigers pitching staff.
going to be a comeback victory tonight
Well heck, I guess Milone is only on track to give up 9 tonight.
sean's mismatched bracketed numbers up there are bugging me a bit. I want to know where the matching [2] and [3] went.
Oops!
Aww, I was hoping there was really another [3] somewhere.
Kennys Vargas hits the ball hard. My goodness.
Mauer-Vargas-Arcia
man oh man, that should produce a lot of runs.
ummmm... Escobar HR? really?
AWESOME
Just a double double.
mmmmm, double-double.
Sure, why not?
As much as I like Vargas and Arcia, it's nice to have a couple guys on the team who can hit and play defense.
Eduardo Escoboom!
rally killers.
Danny Santacular!
seems like an odd time to switch pitchers.
Can we just do away with the idea of an error?
oh oh... tigers rally time
ii reaches on an error. ..should have just plunked him.
BOOOOOOOO fan grabbing the foul ball instead of Arcia potentially catching it
This Milone guy might not be all that great.
He's got more than 450 innings that says he's about average.
Another "except the last inning" start.
The wheels on the bus go falling off
Falling off
Falling off
The wheels on the bus go falling off...
So will Gardy rip Santana for not catching that ball then?
That and the automatic double earlier. I'm sure he missed a bunt sign too.
That was one heck of a double play. Good thing Victor Martinez was the batter.
Triple E
Poor Dick'n'Bert can't comprehend how Jim Johnson couldn't be an elite closer with his 101 saves with the O's.
Gladden was saying the same thing. Provus wasn't saying too much.
SEND HIM!!???
EE wants the cycle. Odd that he only needs a double
That was my thought, too. Hope he gets it.
Bases loaded no outs - automatic bunt, am I right?
this meme is going to be funny. hahaha
Uh oh, nine runs! Need to score at least one more.
clown baseball. lol
TIGERS BASEBALL!!
Still no outs. Nice.
Eight run inning! Paging GreekHouse.
Poor guy. Twice in one year and he isn't around for either.
Escobar almost guaranteed one more plate appearance to get his double.
With Dozier's walk, now guaranteed.
This last half inning has been the best TV I've seen lately. And I've been watching the Simpsons marathon!
I Choo-Choo-Choose eight-run innings!
Mauer with his second PA this inning with the bases loaded. Maybe this time he'll hit it over the fence.
Instead he doesn't swing the bat and gets another RBI. Hey, why not if the Tigers are walking everyone.
Dazzle was quite snarky about Joe taking on 3-0 and 3-1. For a guy who likes to talk like he's all about the team, Dazzle is awfully me-first about RBIs and SBs.
because back in his day, thats how the players got big contracts.
I listened to Dazzle get on Mauer last year due to his lack of RsBI. Atteboy in the booth politely suggested that might be because the Twins couldn't manage to get on base in front of him.
I LIKE IT
I think this calls for a Burton 3-inning save
Single? ! Disappointing.
DON'T SEND HIM!!
Because that kind of non-aggression is why the Twins' reputation around the league is so good?? Is anyone else listening to the radio broadcast at this point?
That's an emphatic no. Course, I'm watching the tv feed, so pick my poison I guess.
Yep, I heard it. Evidently swinging away to get RBIs is better than drawing a walk, but somehow an inning or two later it's better for the team to not score on a base hit.
Dazzle should go back to talking about fishing in Japan.
Moments later Dazzle was like "Well, Santana might be looking over wondering why he didn't get an RBI." Not that Santana looked at all like he cared.
position player pitching alert
Dang, Oswaldo!!!
oh my
ORLANDO GARCIA!
So we'll march day and night by the big cooling tower, they've got Cabrerra, but we've got Joe Mauer.
that. is. awesome.
Now play Classical Gas!
PLOUFFE!!
You get a run! And you get a run! And you get a run!
ding!
I like how these position players' usual pitch is a fastball with some weird movement on it. It was certainly true of Cuddyer and Butters.
Thst's not a double either. 🙁
Baseball is easy.
Gonna need some BIG puppies.
A little odd how the Twins can score 20 runs and Tommy Milone STILL can't earn a win.
Boy, Suzuki sure didn't want any part of this game.
I'm glad this game wasn't wasted on an away crowd.
To be kind of fair to Milone, Escobar was awful in the field that inning and Arcia had a foul ball catch taken away from him by a fan.
I mean, good pitchers find a way to work out of that but the defense kind of let him down.
He's not treating them well enough between starts
Milone's xFIP for the game was 2.90.
Does xFIP mean anything in a single-game size? Isn't it like most stats where you need a large enough sample to let it stabilize? I mean, sure, that low xFIP looks nice, but so does Eddie's 5 for 5 day, and I don't expect that to represent Escobar's true talent level.