Chris Flexen vs. Justin Verlander, 6:40pm (This is the last of the early starts this season. Tomorrow’s game will begin at 7:10).
The M’s are in last place after a disastrous stretch of poor play. The game itself seems to stumble; the ball is dead on the whole, but subject to striking variance from game to game. This is both kind of annoying and also lends itself to conspiratorial thinking. I mean, if you *wanted* to enrich your new partners in the gaming industry, wouldn’t this be a good way to do it? Baseball’s broadcasts are splintered into several competing platforms, as MLB tries to profit off of the streaming wars that threaten its big cable revenue streams.