Not sure how bing AI came up with this graphic for Astros Bingo, but I'm going with it. I got a content warning when I tried to have the second line say "F88k the Rangers.
IT'S A MIRACLEChristian Walker has reached a 90-RBI pace for the year, making 7 people very happy for the day at least. He's also on pace for 24 HR, 1 off his square.
ONE WEEK TO GOFour people picked us to be in first at the end of August. One week to your square.
BACK IN THE 90SWin pace is officially back up to 90.
TUCKER HAS STOPPED SUCKERINGTwo more homers yesterday, 3 in the last 2 games, 21 total, on pace for 26.
And Springer hit his 22nd and is on pace for 27.
AL WEST TRIES TO COURSE CORRECTA's up to a 74-win pace, Angels started to teeter on disaster at 85-loss pace. Trout breaks 100 games, but does anyone notices he's having a terrible season?
ROCKIES ON THE BRINK-345 run differential with 30 games to go. Record is -349.
JUST ANOTHER DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE GOATAltuve got his OPS up to .801 yesterday. In 66 games hitting third, it's .910. Three hits yesterday brought him to 2,367 for his career. He passed Alan Trammell who played seasons, all for the Tigers, and is the HOF. Jose is now 2 behind Trammell's DP partner for 19 seasons, Lou Whitaker, who is at 2,369.
Trammell played from 77-96 for the Tigers, took over their SS job at age 20 in 1978, and played at least 75% of their games every year from then until 1991. He looked like a pretty strong candidate for 3,000 hits, but from ag 33 to age 38, his game counts for the year were: 101, 29, 112, 76, 74, and 66. Just another reason why anytime you see Jose play in person or on TV, you've got to relish it, because the older he gets, the close we are to the day he breaks down or has to hang it up.
Trammell hit over .300 6 times, won 4 Gold Gloves, 3 Silver Sluggers and made the All-Star team 6 times. All of that while going head to head with Cal Ripken at SS for his entire career, and Robin Yount for the first half of it.
In '78, he finished 4th for Rookie of the Year. His teammate Whitaker won it, Paul Molitor was second,, and Carney Lansford was third.
In '84, when the Tiges went insane and started out 35-5 in route to a 104-58 record and their first World Series in 16 years, Trammell hit .314 i the regular season, then was MVP of the ALCS, hitting .364 with a 1.318 OPS. He then pulled a Jeremy Pena and won WS MVP as well hitting .450 (9 for 20, 2 HR, 6 RBI) in the 5 game rout of the Padres that made me feel really badly for Tony Gwynn, but that was countered by my laughing frequently at Steve Garvey.
In '87, Trammell suffered an all-time Hose Job in the MVP race. His Tigers tracked down and caught the Blue Jays in the last few days of the season to win the AL East, going 98-64. George Bell won MVP with an out-of--nowhere 47 HR, 134, .308 season for the Jays. Trammell hit .343, hit 28 HR, drove in 105 runs, had 205 hits and scored 109 runs and stole 21 bases. He hit .417 in September/October with a .677 slug and a 1.167 OPS and finished 2nd to Bell by 21 votes.
