The One Where We Discuss Star Treatment, Hot Dirtbag, And Another Shoulder Injury For BJ

Tigers 5, Rays 2 (click image for boxscore) The GBT – The Good, The Bad and The Telling sandwich, where The Bad is nice and lean and the The Telling is ripe. THE GOOD: The Giraffe. The line wasn’t pretty (4 runs allowed), but he didn’t get the wide zone that Verlander enjoyed (see below) and he was solid outside of the 8th inning when things started to unravel and Juan Cruz couldn’t strand the runners…Dirtbag. He is still hitting below .230 since the All-Star break, but Longoria did hit his 10th home run since the break. Only two players have more (both have 11)…Sweet Swingin’. Starting pitchers will often groove a few pitches to the first batter of the game as they get their feet wet. Usually that is ok because the first batter of the game is not often a home run threat. Well, with Desmond Jennings getting the night off to rest his 24-year old legs, Matty Joyce led-off and took a fastball from Verlander and deposited it in the right field...