Kansas City Royals @ Detroit Tigers Game Thread (4/24)
 

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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> H </td><td> E </td></tr>
<tr> <td> KC (10-8) </td> <td> 0 </td> <td> 0 </td><td> 4 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 1 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 5 </td><td> 8 </td><td> 1 </td></tr>
<tr> <td> DET(10-9) </td> <td> 0 </td> <td> 1 </td><td> 2 </td><td> 4 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> X </td><td> 7 </td><td> 9 </td><td> 0 </td></tr>
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Loss, (2-1) Wade Davis 3⅔IP 7R 3ER 4BB 2K
Luis Mendoza 2⅓IP 0R 0ER 3BB 2K
J.C. Gutierrez 2IP 0R 0ER 1BB 0K

VS.

http://mlb.mlb.com/images/logos/80x80/det.png

Win, (2-0) Max Scherzer 5IP 5R 5ER 3BB 6K
Hold, (4) Al Alburquerque 1⅔IP 0R 0ER 2BB 2K
Hold, (3) Joaquin Benoit 1⅓IP 0R 0ER 0BB 1K
Save, (1) Jose Valverde 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 0K

Home Runs

none

AL Central

Final: CLE 2, CWS 3

Starting Lineups

KC

1. Alex Gordon, LF
2. Alcides Escobar, SS
3. Billy Butler, DH
4. Eric Hosmer, 1B
5. Lorenzo Cain, CF
6. Mike Moustakas, 3B
7. Jeff Francoeur, RF
8. Salvador Perez, C
9. Chris Getz, 2B

DET

1. Austin Jackson, CF
2. Torii Hunter, RF
3. Miguel Cabrera, 3B
4. Prince Fielder, 1B
5. Victor Martinez, DH
6. Andy Dirks, LF
7. Jhonny Peralta, SS
8. Alex Avila, C
9. Omar Infante, 2B

Today: Occasional showers. High near 46. West northwest wind 9 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.

Tonight: Showers likely, mainly before 8pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 35. West wind 5 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

They should get this one in. But it will not be a very pleasant game.

Rainout 2 days in a row?

Do they ever play triple headers? LMAO

Again...get a roof for your stadium you gang-bangin, slum living, car building pieces of shit.

All northern teams or rustbelt teams should have retractable roofs like Milwaukee.

Couldn't agree more. Like I was saying to someone else yesterday, it hot as hell in Phx. Hot enough to postpone games in the summer. What did they do when building a new stadium? They took that possibility out of the equation by adding a roof. It's an open air stadium when it needs to be, but it's a dome when it needs to be too.

If it rains every other day for a quarter of your baseball season where your team is located...get a ****ing roof.

I'd never seen a retractable roof on a baseball stadium before, that is ****in' awesome!

http://mlblogsbrewers.files.wordpres...um08rs0503.jpg

Exactly

Minute Maid Park in Houston is a restractable roof stadium as well because Houstons summers are notoriously hot and humid.

Great looking stadium too!

http://mathersblog.com/wp-content/up..._maid_park.jpg

According to Wikipedia, there are 6 major league parks with retractable roofs

:LOL:

Royals Baseball! We played 2 games in 6 days!

Here's to hoping they play some baseball tonight!

Poor Mendoza. He probably feels like he'll never pitch again

heh, also, when was the last time Chen pitched?

Sunday, Game 1. Prior to that was April 10th when he went 3 innings.

COME ON, CHEN!!!!

I actually looked that up during the Boston situation.

There have been a few triple-headers played in the ancient days of baseball (before 1920), but they are now banned in the CBA.

The closest we can ever get to a triple-header is if a suspended game (not to be confused with a postponed game, suspended games are tied after 5 innings) was resumed before a double-header, and even then thats only allowed if there's literally no other option.

That'd be a real interesting sight. By the third game they'd all just be thinking "**** this", wanting to just get home.

And they were both on the same day!

They still haven't announced a makeup date. All we know for sure is we won't play a double-header today or tomorrow.

Let's do this!

Holy crap, do the gamblers hate us. The Royals are the biggest underdog today. Not Houston, not Miami, KC.

KC +160
DET -175

That line is so obscene, I might have to look into acting on it.

Time for you guys to make some money.

Looks like light rain/snow mix through late afternoon and precip should taper of toward first pitch. Wind chill will be in the upper 30s.

Ouch. As you may have guessed I'm not one for wind chill, I always feel for athletes that have to play in the cold.

We also have to hope the field drains well enough that its playable by game time.

Seriously...**** Detroit....


Joel Goldberg ‏@goldbergkc 11m
And we have snow

The glow of basking in the Sunday doubleheader sweep of Boston is beginning to wear off.

I'm ready to start playing some ball again.

my city [in north Texas] dropped to 30 degrees this morning



winter can eat a bag

I am going to be pissed one pissed off mother****er if tonight's game is canceled too.

It doesn't sound like it will be cancelled. It will just be the worst baseball weather you can get without actually cancelling the game.

I will take it! :thumb:

Maybe Verlander will pull something walking around in the dugout due to the cold weather and not be able to go tomorrow.

I think the Red Sox may have seen that last night....after the As kicked em in the nuts and took their lunch money

The announcers say this is the record for the coldest game ever played yesterday in Colorado, but the description from MLB says it is the record for the coldest game in Colorado. Either way, it is 23-25 degrees and there isn't even a hint of sun.

Embedding doesn't seem to want to work. Here is the link. Just a few brave people showed up.

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=26525955

I really don't think we even need Detroit any more. That city is shrinking, its just a crime-ridden hellhole now.

They should just burn Detroit to the ground, and move those sports franchises elsewhere. Maybe Oklahoma City.

I have played games in high school in the 20's. your eyes water, glove is hard, glove is hard to squeeze because the leather is hard. You can't feel the call hit the glove..the glove just kinda moves. Hard to get a grip on the ball. If you get jammed at the plate it feels like hornets are stinking your bones. If you hit the ball on the sweet spot it still feels like you got jammed.

Prediction: both pitchers get absolutely shelled. Royals win a long homer-filled slugfest, 10-8

I think it could also go the other way. None of the batters can get any air under the ball, and the Royals win in a redux of Davis' second start, 1-0.

(Poor Davis)

I don't want those people living any closer to Kansas City than they already do. Move them to Puerto Rico.

Are we expecting to play some ball tonight? Too lazy to go look at the Detroit weather.

Yes.

For sure?

Yes. At worst it will be delayed a little bit.

Is the game tomorrow really not on tv? I REALLY want to see Shields vs. Verlander.

KCROYALS.com header says that it's on TV.

Yeah, that should be out of there by game time. Won't be pretty, but hell...I'm watching from my living room. Get out there ya ****s!

Pretty cool that they are adding it given they know we want to see that matchup and that we haven't seen enough baseball lately.

Yeah, I was just looking at FSKC. It's actually on FSDET.

They added it.

http://www.foxsportskansascity.com/m...55&feedID=5089

I'm guessing since FSKC is adding it that it probably isn't reflected on the guide.

the weather for tomorrow's game may be shittier than tonight's

Sheesh. This amount of time off is like waiting between Chiefs games on Sundays. Only the Royals actually have a good chance at winning. Ba-zing!

If the Chiefs are 9-7 after 16 games, this place will meltdown. We have already heard those folks say that. At least if the Chiefs get to 10-7, it will have meant the payoff win drought is over!;)

Unless they make it with a 10-6 record.

Royals were 9-7 before they went to 10-7. Following their pattern.

The only good thing to come from Detroit was Hardcore Pawn.

:thumb: Thanks.

PBJ

Let's play some ball!

Standard lineup for us again

What's with this standard lineup crap? We need 162 different lineups.

It seems like Perez is further down than usual.

If you want the football analogy, the Royals won the first game of the season. Every 11 games equals an NFL schedule. Right now they are up 4-2 at halftime of game 2.

Let's play ball.

Tarp's off bitches

Apparently Phys and Hud don't know that Mendoza isn't starting tonight

:thumb:
:thumb:

Gawd it would be nice to bitch slap Detriot in this first game of the season. Just beat the shit out of them

White Sox beat the Injuns today, they are now both 3+ games back. The Twinkies are 1 game back. At worst, we'll wind up tied with them tonight.

WHEW HEAR LIKES DUH BOOBIEZ?

Our magic number is 162 + 1 - 10 - 8 = 145 (or 144 if you don't believe in the Twins)

Let's do this.

Just got home, just got the computer on.

Let's do this!

**** Detoilet!

1st inning
 

Top 1st

Gordon strikes out (swinging)
Escobar strikes out (swinging)
Butler grounds out to pitcher

0 runs, 0 hits

Bottom 1st

Jackson flies out to left
Hunter strikes out (swinging)
Cabrera singles to center
Fielder fouls out to third

0 runs, 1 hit

This + a beer.

Let the raping comence.








































































Hopefully it's us doing the raping

Annnnd Gordo looks at a belt high fastball on 2-0.....