***April 17 Doubleheader Royals @ White Sux GDT's***
 

Just got into my hotel room in Vegas. Meetings start at 8 am PT but I should be good. Hopefully I can take a nap at some point. And hopefully the Royals scrap out two wins in the win-dy city later.

PBJ PBJ PBJ

HELL YEAH

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Double header from Chicago. Salvador Perez returns and catches game one. Brady Singer starts the first. Michael Wacha has the second. LHP Anthony Veneziano is the 27th man. Pregame at 12:30. <a href="https://t.co/uzOCLZOZSN">pic.twitter.com/uzOCLZOZSN</a></p>&mdash; Joel Goldberg (@goldbergkc) <a href="https://twitter.com/goldbergkc/status/1780615422544388417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 17, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Hell yeah brother cheers!

IF Garcia's troubles continue, will they move someone else into the lead off? I would think they'd have to. At least until he shows signs of breaking back out.

Check this shit out!

https://www.espn.com/mlb/standings/_.../group/overall

Let’s go Royals!

I do think it's possible, but I'm not sure who we'd want in that position?

Hopefully he gets hot soon.

Possibly Melendez. He has experience there, but it's just a what if right now.

Oh, and 3 up 3 down for the Rs, top of the 1st

Let's go royals.

WE get jessie Eisenburg today as announcer. YES

There we go…. On the board.

Props to the outfield grass for helping out with that run.

Royals 1-0 wish we had a discord going might be fun

Frasier with the RBI

Jungle Law commercial come on!!11

Renfroe with the atom ball

Gee, that stadium is standing room only, I think they need a bigger stadium.

DeJong goes yard 1-1

Edit: 2-1 White Sox

Ooof, Singer giving up the long ball. Haven’t seen too many of those yet from opposing bats this season…

Singer is all over the place this inning.

HERE WE GO ROYALS HERE WE GO!

Ugh…. A Jack McDowell comp? Hated that turd. And an awful choice for the 1993 Cy Young award.

Kevin Appier got robbed.

Salvy! Gunning it to 2nd... He's getting up there, but he ain't done behind the plate yet! Great play.

C'mon bats! Time to wake up!

Singer doing a good job fighting through the control issues.

Yes, but he already has over 75 pitches in the 4th, not optimal unless he gets a quick inning or two.

Advanced analytics saying Salvy finally learned framing in like year number 13

Well yeah control issues are going to limit innings pitched as batters watch pitches go by that are out of the zone. But limiting runs while fighting control is all you can ask for on those days. Better than Danny Duffy or Luke Hochevar, when he was starting, having control issues and grooving balls down the middle of the plate.

No runs again for Singer, still 2-1 bad guys.

Vinnie with a 1 out ground rule double.

Pasquantino is raping baseballs.

Trever Bauer is somewhere smiling.

Goddammit... Off the bat thought Nellie had a 3 run dinger... Blarg...

That was the loudest out I've ever heard

A Will Smith sighting.

Will Smith is almost into single digit ERA at 10.50, big improvement.

Renfroe is basically Jeff Francoeur only worse.

This really feels like a 2-1 loss. Which kind of blows.

Hopefully the offense gets going in the second game.

They're going to have to do it vs. Kopech it looks like.

Man…. Garcia really scuffling. Another 0fer…

He needs some bench time. Can Michael Massey play third?

Salvy! Clutch city.

You were saying?

Haha!!! Salvy goes BOOM!!!

Salvy BOMB!! Rs lead 3-2

Salvy!

Thank you Salvy!
PBJ PBJ PBJ

Glad he felt good enough to play today.

That was a fun inning.

This series has featured a lot of White Sox pitchers unable to control their emotions on the mound. I like it.

yeah, this is usually the time when T. Anderson starts some shit

Yeah yeah well if you downvote me again we'll be meeting at the George Brett Statue at High Noon.

I like Salvador Perez.

Salvy dongs are my favorite.

Send Hampson back to the turnip farm. That was pathetic.

Damn, Renfroe unloaded on that one. Too bad Hampson got picked off. Nice insurance run!

Frustrating pick off

Thought he got back.

Huge hit

Renfroe just destroyed the baseball.

Renfroe BOMB!! 4-2 Rs

Renfroe Dong!!

Smoked that ball. What a nice 9th so far

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This guy was my favorite reaction to the Salvy homer <a href="https://t.co/ZUQY5yUWrc">pic.twitter.com/ZUQY5yUWrc</a></p>&mdash; Tom (@TJFsports) <a href="https://twitter.com/TJFsports/status/1780693272274379205?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 17, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Don't you have a birthday thread to prepare for tomorrow?

Those poor bastards are an out away from being 2-15. The frustration and misery is palpable.

PBJ

Ballgame!!!

Winner!

We win!!!

That's how you do it! On to the 2nd game. :clap:

And ANOTHER come from behind win!

LOL that wasn’t a strike but I’ll take it!

W

I liked Kopech's reaction, hung his head and KNEW it was long gone.

Needs to stop trying to hit homers man. Go back to what got you here.

What kind of an idiot throws it over the middle to Salvy? Dead middle middle. Instantly 430 feet gone.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. There is never, ever, ever a reason to throw Salvador Perez a strike.

Winner!

"Just a little outside"

We were lucky we got that call. :hmmm:

Just saw the replay. Salvy knocked the snot out of that ball

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Makes up for the shitty calls we got in NY.

Yeah, not totally, those were some bad calls. But it's a start. :thumb:

Game two to start @ 4:25