"Let's start things rolling with the Tiger Rag"

 

So begins the first side of the second record in the Spike Jones Omnibus i listened to as a kid. Unfortunately largess of youtube has let me down and the track doesn't come up when searching, so i shall have to leave my Spike Jones and his City Slickers comfort zone. Roll seems as good a cue to follow as any:

 

 

and for those of you like to know the score:

 

 

And just to reassure anyone worried about yestersay...

 

 

And without further ado...

 

Twins

0. Kenta Maeda (R ) P

1. Max Kepler ( L) RF

2. Jorge Polanco ( S ) SS

3. Nelson Cruz (R ) DH

4. Miguel Sano (R ) 1B

5. Jake Cave ( L) CF

6. Luis Arraez ( L) 2B

7. M. Gonzalez ( S ) 3B

8. LaMonte Wade Jr ( L) LF

9. Alex Avila ( L) C

 

Tigers

0. Casey Mize (R ) P

1. Victor Reyes ( S ) RF

2. J. Schoop (R ) 2B

3. Miguel Cabrera (R ) DH

4. J. Candelario ( S ) 1B

5. Niko Goodrum ( S ) SS

6. JaCoby Jones (R ) CF

7. C. Stewart ( L) LF

8. G. Greiner (R ) C

9. Isaac Paredes (R ) 3B

 

Or with further ado, of that is your preference, do feel free to add your own flavor of further ado.

Happy to see Maeda on the mound today. Would have liked to have seen him yesterday, though.

any Eddie news ??

How about that AB by cave?

How bout giving Boston Cave and Wade for Kevin Pillar,  Thought anyway ! 

 

 

How about that AB by cave?

2 -strikes and most this team is ???  Get aggressive b4 2 strikes

There goes the no hitter

Cave with a terrible at bat.  Swung at 2 balls outside of the zone.  Lineup is not intimidating at all.  Cruz and may Sano but that is about it today.  

 

Twins bring the infield in...

 

If i didn't know better, i'd think that redundant.

And we are down early again...great

Twins bring the infield in...

If i didn't know better, i'd think that redundant.

1 run feels like 5 at this point

Down 0-1.

 

The familiar uphill path ahead of us.

 

On familiar ground here.

Tigers starting pitchers and losses by Twins:  Let's think about this for a second or try to quickly get it out of your mind.  Boyd 7.27 ERA and Twins get 2 runs. Skubal 6.75 ERA and Twins get 2 runs.  Ouch.

1 run feels like 5 at this point

Gosh.

 

When did we last score 5?

At least we stil got 8 innings to make up that run...

Gosh.

When did we last score 5?

Last week

Hey we scored 5! Er... 1. Only seems like 5.

Need a far better at bat from Kepler there. Yeesh

Kepler looking worse as Cave on any inside slider

good thing we got a wild pitch/pass ball to bring in the run.  

 

TWO runs in one game? Get out of dodge

Maeda May need to plunk someone

5 more with a Polanco dinger to lead off the 3rd!

 

Insurmountable!

Hope we get a big lead and Alcala can throw 98 at someones hand

Time to break this inning open! We need to take a big lead here.

Wow that’s some bad luck, although it was probably going to be a DP

Seems like our RISP has been dreadful the last 3 weeks. They can get runners on somewhat consistently, but really have no way of getting them in outside of sac flies, which usually guarantees we only get 1 run per inning.

Say hello to your 1st five game losing streak Rocco.

Hard to believe how fast we’ve fallen off

Maeda with another good outing. Offense HAS to show some life