Detroit Tigers @ Kansas City Royals Game Thread (4/17)
 

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<tr> <td>Final</td> <td> 1 </td> <td> 2 </td><td> 3 </td><td> 4 </td><td> 5 </td><td> 6 </td><td> 7 </td><td> 8 </td><td> 9 </td><td> R </td><td> </td><td> E </td></tr>
<tr> <td> DET (8-3) </td> <td> 0 </td> <td> 1 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 2 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 3 </td><td> </td><td> 1 </td></tr>
<tr> <td> KC (3-8) </td> <td> 0 </td> <td> 0 </td><td> 1 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 1 </td><td> </td><td> 0 </td></tr>
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http://kansascity.royals.mlb.com/ima.../80x80/det.png

Drew Smyly 6IP 1R 0ER 1BB 4K
Win, (1-0) Octavio Dotel 1IP 0R 0ER 1BB 0K
Hold, (3) Joaquin Benoit 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 3K
Save, (2) Jose Valverde 1IP 0R 0ER 1BB 1K

VS.

http://kansascity.royals.mlb.com/ima...s/80x80/kc.png

Loss, (0-1) Bruce Chen 7IP 2R 2ER 0BB 7K
Greg Holland ⅔IP 1R 1ER 0BB 2K
Tim Collins ⅓IP 0R 0ER 0BB 1K
Kelvin Herrera 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 0K

Home Runs

none

Starting Lineups

DET

1. Austin Jackson, CF
2. Brennan Boesch, RF
3. Miguel Cabrera, 3B
4. Prince Fielder, 1B
5. Delmon Young, LF
5. Brandon Inge, 2B
6. Alex Avila, C
7. Ryan Raburn, 2B/LF
8. Ramon Santiago, SS
9. Andy Dirks, DH
9. Don Kelly, ph/DH

KC

1. Alex Gordon, LF
2. Jason Bourgeois, CF
3. Eric Hosmer, 1B
4. Billy Butler, DH
5. Jeff Francoeur, RF
6. Mike Moustakas, 3B
7. Yuniesky Betancourt, 2B
8. Brayan Pena, C
9. Alcides Escobar, SS

Can we please bring Johnny Giavotella up? Soon?

If we don't get a win tonight you can pretty much forget about ever seeing .500 the rest of the season

Time to start a winning streak tonight

This might have more merit than we want to admit.

As the old saying goes, you can't win a division (or realistically, a wild card) in April, but you definitely can lose it. We don't need to reel off a big 6-7 game winning streak right now, but we can't keep losing.

Unfortunately I think it does. I don't see this team putting together any 5-6 game winning streaks with our pitching. We'll be lucky to couch a couple 2-3 game winning streaks around a loss or two.

Hope the homeplate ump has a larger strikezone tonight or Detriot will tee off on Chen

We got this.

Just looked him up. Mark Wegner appears to have a vanilla strike zone, not particularly large or small.

Good. Thanks for looking it up

1st inning
 

Top 1st

Jackson strikes out (swinging)
Boesch singles to left
Cabrera fouls out to first
Fielder strikes out (looking)

0 runs, 1 hit

Bottom 1st

Gordon strikes out (looking)
Bourgeois hits an infield single to second
Bourgeois picked off and caught stealing 1-3-6, out at second
Hosmer strikes out (swinging)

0 runs, 1 hit

Shades of Jeff Francis with that 68 mph pitch

who is the 2nd guy in the booth?


gawd, he is an irritating ****.

Looks like another big crowd tonight!

Fatman caught looking

Prince looks slimmed down

DUMB

Base-running demon shows its ugly face once more!

Let's not give hosmer a chance to hit with a guy on.

2nd inning
 

Top 2nd

Young singles to right
Avila flies out to center
Raburn doubles to left, Young to third
Santiago sacrifices (fly) to right, Raburn to third, Young scores
Dirks fouls out to catcher

1 run, 2 hits

Bottom 2nd

Butler singles to left
Francoeur grounds into a 5-4-3 double play, Butler out at second
Moustakas pops out to first

0 runs, 1 hit

and... there you go. The Royals starters motto "We hate having the lead".

I know Dirks ( i think i state that every time we play the tigers) but i hope he strikes out every AB!

The last time we had a lead was game 3 against Cleveland and that lasted until Cleveland came up to bat.

Was Dirks a dick?

Not sure if this is news, but Sanchez and Hochevar are going to swap spots. Hoch is penciled in for Friday.

Yeah I heard that on the radio this afternoon. Was hoping to see Teaford for a start.

Nah, hes a nice old country boy who likes to fish and hunt, hes from Kansas.

Billy has got that grunt going again. Usually means he's hitting well

Frenchy is having a real gem of a game so far.

What a shock another double play.

3rd inning
 

Top 3rd

Jackson grounds out to shortstop
Boesch flies out to left
Cabrera singles to left
Fielder singles to center, Cabrera to second
Young strikes out (swinging)

0 runs, 2 hits

Bottom 3rd

Betancourt flies out to center
Pena grounds out to pitcher
Escobar hits an infield single to pitcher, Escobar to second on an Error by P
Gordon singles to center, Escobar scores
Bourgeois grounds into a 5-4 fielder's choice, Gordon out at second

1 run, 2 hits, 1 error

Sigh..just chalk us up to 3-8. If we get out of April under 10 games back I will be pleasantly surprised.

Why watch the game if you are going to give up when you're down by one run after two innings?

Frenchy's pitch selection can be frustrating. What he chooses to swing at.

Im confident the Royals will come on strong in September when they are 20 games behind.

I was more upset that he didn't get in better position for that throw to the plate. Didn't look like a gold glover on that play

You've got wounded vag syndrome.

a losing streak makes Rex even tougher to listen to

You got that right

It won't be 1-0 for long

Yeah, Yeah....

Smyly has great stuff so far

petegz28...insufferable douche since 2005.

How long until you start crying about the umps?

Smyly is on tonight.

wish Al could shorten that swing a touch

HA HA...get him Alcides!!!

OUCH

That had to nail him in the back

eh, pete is who he is. The highs are amazingly high, and the lows are incredibly low, a daily roller-coaster. Its all good.

w00t Alex

It's tied? I thought the game was over?

Told ya....

That run should probably not be earned.

Agreed, he would never have scored from 1st. I bet they change it.

2005 math with Rex and Ryan....lmao

Gotta love it when a pitcher's error helps his own ERA. With the jump Escobar had, he might have made a case at the plate.

good throw would have had him nailed by 5 steps easy

4th inning
 

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Hudler is to the Royals as Knowmo is to the Donkeys

Bottom 4th
 

Top 4th

Avila strikes out (swinging)
Raburn flies out to center
Santiago strikes out (looking)

0 runs, 0 hits

Bottom 4th

Hosmer pops out to third
Butler singles to center
Francoeur strikes out (swinging)
Moustakas hits an infield single to pitcher, Butler to second
Betancourt flies out to right

0 runs, 2 hits

Chen and Duffy showing much swagger lately. Like it

I don't know who looks worse in this deal? Is it Glass or Moore that looks like crap when Bruce Chen is your ace?

Hosmer needs to lay off that low shit

Grunt with the liner up the middle

Frenchy has been an automatic out as of late

thank god for belly

5th inning
 

Top 5th

Dirks flies out to left
Jackson strikes out (looking)
Boesch flies out to right

0 runs, 0 hits

Bottom 5th

Pena flies out to left
Escobar grounds out to pitcher
Gordon strikes out (swinging)

0 runs, 0 hits

our big bats are limp dicks

When did Sietzer retire as a player?

Jesus Alice

Gordon has reverted

Just got home. What did I miss?

thats about it

Pretty much a pitchers duel so far

6th inning
 

Top 6th

Cabrera strikes out (swinging)
Fielder pops out to third
Young grounds out to third

0 runs, 0 hits

Bottom 6th

Bourgeois grounds out to shortstop
Hosmer grounds out to first
Butler doubles to right
Francoeur intentionally walked
Moustakas grounds out to second

0 runs, 1 hit

Jesus Christ Alex, you suck

God that was a beautiful AB for Chen

Prince looked like he was 17 when he was 9