****Official Hotlanta Braves vs KC Royals---Sunday May 15, 2016****
 

I won our last game. I went with 4 asterisks again. It's as good as won.



Braves
(9-26, 7-9 Away)

Royals
(17-19, 10-6 Home)

Starting Pitchers
Atlanta: Wisler (1-3, 3.27 ERA)
Kansas City: Duffy (0-0, 3.00 ERA)


Atlanta Braves
HITTERS
N Markakis DH
G Beckham 3B
F Freeman 1B
T Flowers C 0
J Francoeur RF
E Inciarte LF
C d'Arnaud 2B
M Smith CF
D Castro SS


Kansas City Royals
HITTERS
A Escobar SS
A Gordon LF
E Hosmer 1B
K Morales DH
S Perez C
C Cuthbert 3B
P Orlando RF
O Infante 2B
J Dyson CF

If we lose, you're getting sent to AAA.

Go Royals! Show some fire today!

What?!

My track record here is outstanding!





****, I forgot this was Duffy's start. I have been super hard on him, borderline strong dislike for him being a mental midget. He'll probably get shelled.

He's averaging 96.5 this year vrs 93.7 last. So he's got that going for him.

Main reason Salvy is in lineup today: He stormed into Ned's office post-game and demanded it. "We got to get a win," he told Ned. #Royals

Can't say they don't want it at least.

He can ramp up his velocity knowing he only has to go one inning out of the pen. Not uncommon, also happened with Hoch and Davis.

OH **** ! WE'RE THE GOD DAMN MONARCHS TODAY !

Well when you pitch an inning instead of a whole game, I expect your velocity to be higher. He's not been good at command of secondary pitches. Only so many times through a lineup can you throw your fastball before they start clobbering it, and/or your poorly located secondary pitches.

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The ones that seems to care are Salvy (terrible hitting though), Hosmer and Moose. I wish Gordon would show some fire sometimes. I wish Cain would show some displeasure at times. I realize it's not their standard, but when things are going poorly, I wish they'd show a bit more emotion on occasion. I think the other guys would respond to seeing someone like them showing some rare fire.

Rex must be at KU graduation commencement today.

Duffy hitting 98 on the gun.

Yes, one of his kids I think.

Second time through the lineup will be his true test. Hitters seem to adjust to his speed well. Gonna need that curve/slider.

What we're missing is Ventura out there stirring shit up. Next time Gordy gets hit we need to retaliate and have a brawl. Last year we had fire. this year they are complacent.

They aren't coming close to his heater.

Maybe not a full out brawl but throwing a helmet, getting upset or yelling at a pitcher when they hit us, which in some games we've been beaned more than once this year.

Wow. Esky almost had a lead off home run!

ESKY with a leadoff hit.

Yes!

Nothing unifies a team more than a fist fight.

1-0 Monarchs

Hosmer has looked very good all year.

Impressed.

Kendrys with another ugly strike out. I'm shocked.

Kendry's looks like he's 38 years old.

It's like Kendrys can't even see the ball from that side of the plate.

I think he needs to have his right eye checked to see if it's blind.

HOO BOY!!!!!!!!

DUFFY!! Holy shit!

That was sick. Even Hosmer couldn't contain his excitement before he caught it. The look on his face was great.

"At the end of two, no score"

Huh???

It's 1-0 Monarchs !

Dumbass

Duff man looking super sharp.

Interesting history lesson

Our society has really become very casual.
People used to 'dress to the nines' all the time.

Second time through the lineup.

Here we go!

And here comes the Duffy meltdown

Gotta get outta here

Why is someone warming up in the bullpen?

Sounds like they have him on a pitch count

At the beginning of the game, they said he'd be limited to 40-50 pitches.

Because they know at any moment Duffy can turn into Daffy

Just saw Vargas in the dugout.

What's up with that guy?

Because even the Royals know Duffy can't get through a lineup the second time.......


Ok, mostly pitch count.

Perfect pitch my ass, Monty!

And now Mr. 150 Batting average .

Haha, "No way dude!"

Kendrys Morales 2016 - The Inning Killer

I miss Billy Butler

Morales needs to be sat down for about the next 130 games

Can we just let our pitchers hit?

I don't understand why Duffy would be on a pitch limit. He threw 11 pitches on Wednesday, four days ago. This is Negro Leagues Day! He should be able to throw 130 pitches today and 140 tomorrow.

Inked up Aussie!

It's a nice way to say they don't trust him getting through a full lineup a second time.

And they're right.

Build some confidence in a short, but productive start.

He looked dominant the first time through. I think they need to give him a chance. He can't be any worse than Medlen & Young have been this year.

I realize that.

I think they will. Given his history of lacking confidence, I think they'll extend his starts slowly, but not in his first game back. Also, I think they realize they will have to lean on him quite a bit, so making sure his arm is ready for higher pitch counts isn't horrible....unless you're Trey Hillman.

The guy pitched 18 innings in 16 appearances so far this year. Gil Meche him!

I honestly think it's mostly a confidence thing and not trusting him fully. You'd never say that though, so pitch count is a great excuse.

I had no idea we were facing Maddux and Smoltz this weekend.

That was 100% pitch count. Duffy finished last year as a reliever too. No manager is going to take a guy in that situation and let him go 100 pitches. They'll stretch him out, and let him go a few more pitches each time until he finally gets to 100.

We're making the Braves pitching staff look stellar

The Braves do have a ridiculous amount of pitching prospects. I thought we'd hit Folty yesterday though... he's the kind of hard throwing wild pitcher we hit. Wisler is the type of guy I'd think would give us more problems.

The offshoot of them completely tearing down their team. They should be able to find 3-4 good pitchers out of the group. There's a bunch of legit prospects still on the way, aside from all the young players already there.

Denny hasn't died yet ?

George Brett was hitting .269 on his birthday in 1980.

Hoch owes Salvy there. Framed that one up good.

Hosmer is hitting at a legit clip this year.

God I love him.

**** Morales !

390 foot out into the wind. At least Morales put a good swing on a ball.

Bad decision to send him home. He was out by a mile.

So, Is our 3rd base coach a ****ing moron tooooo !

If Hosmer had tagged on Morales fly, he scores there.

Hosmer should've been able to tag and go to 3rd on that long fly from Morales. No ****ing reason at all for him to be that far ahead. If it drops, he's still going to score. And if it's a homer, well, obviously...

Soriaids

Christ, Soria.

3-0.

Asshole.

so between our 3rd base coach anbd Hos's bad baserunning we are about to blow the lead....WTF was Hos not tagging on the Morales hit? If it's off the wall he scores...if it;s over the wall he scores..if it's caught he has an easy tag.....

**** Soria with a spork!

Monty talking about what I just said....we have our heads in our ass way too much

Alex Smith has a tiny penis

Terrible base running by hos there

What a break