***** Official Royals vs. Yankees game day thread *****
 

I hope we curb stomp these guys.

**** THE YANKMES

The Royals are slight underdogs in the sportsbooks becuase they're on the road, but I like their chances with Seth Lugo going up against Carlos Carrasco.

Carrasco's career is hanging onto a thread with a 7.71 ERA, a 1.63 WHIP and a 13.5% K-BB%.

Lets shove those torpedo bats up their Yankee asses

Yankees 6

Royals 0

+1 lfg

India is back and mj is on the bench. Can't take advantage of a short right porch with a swing and miss approach.

Super stoked for the Yankees to hit little league homers this series.

MJ couldn’t hit a ball off of his own porch, let alone over one in an MLB stadium.

**** Yank Forever

Can we borrow their bowling pin bats?

LET'S GO ROYALS!!

Valium, Vicodin and vodka for the win!

3 up, 3 down for Lugo. No score.

Bobby Dong!! 1-0

Home Runnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

KANNNNNNN-SASSSSSSSSSS CITYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!

I hope Chisom (or however it's spelled) gets into a wreck on the way home, he's such a ****ing dick head asshole.

Yankees suck...

And swallow...

Let's go Royals!

The full powder blues at Yankee Stadium just feels right

Based on that little chat about the torpedo bats.... It might take a while to get used to, that I'll buy, but the Yankees clearly took the time to get used to it and they stroke the shit out of the ball rather frequently. Perhaps it's just a much better bat in the hands of hitters who are HR threats every time they step up to the plate.

Well crap.

That's a Yankee Stadium special or an out at Kauffman

Royals pitchers envious of run support.

I'm out, good hitting almost always beats good pitching...

Not our night, our bats can't answer theirs.

Yepper! Why can’t we hit a few? Works both ways

Another Yankee Stadium special

Heck of an inning, Lugo

****ing band box man. Only one of those was a legit homer

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Hate the Yankees and their miniature stadium

Don’t worry. I’m certain our bats are going to really come to life

Once again, Bobby’s Dong is the only one hitting.

India has to have a fairly high unlucky stat this year.

1 ****ing hit. This blows.

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Maybe, but he was a decent hitter with the Reds, however that is a hitters ball park.

Last season, Salvy played above his norm in regards to early season offensive performance. That really helped carry the team (along with BWJ, but that's a given). Considering we brought back most of the same awful cast of characters (looking at you, outfield) Salvy not being able to do that is killing this team. Not necessarily his fault, just awful to go into the season with the same shitty guys.

This is ****ing embarrassing. Like Harlem Globetrotters versus the Washington Generals embarrassing. This team sucks. Plus, they are BORING.

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Lugo exits whispering “**** you Royals offense”

Looks like it has been some unlucky hitting

.336 xwOBA
.286 wOBA

Only Salvy is higher if I'm reading the advanced stats right.

No doubt. There has to be some friction in the clubhouse. This offense is truly horid.

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This is beyond embarrassing. Demote some guys and fire someone. Team is supposed to be trying to get into the playoffs.

Seriously, what the **** can you do when everyone other than Witt can't hit? They are screwed. Salvy looks like he is 115 years old. The outfield is just shitty. Even if they all improved 150%, they would still be shitty. Don't see much hope here.

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Is it because there's not enough ass chewing or not enough talent?

I am torn!!!!

You'd think eventually this team would show a little pride and play the Yankees tough, especially after last year. But nah, same beatdown as always in this series.

They really just let the corpse of Carlos Carrasco 1 hit them, a new low even for this offense. Check out his stats from the last few years, I have no idea how he's still on a roster.

Outfield is lack of talent. Those guys just suck ass. Salvy is just old.

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India blows

Royals requested torpedo bats and were denied. Manufacturers did not want the bats to get blamed for not working.

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24 dudes at the plate... 1 hit. Guess no residual payback from last year. Sad, just sad. This team has no personality. Matt presser will credit Yanks pitchers, blah, blah, blah.

Chisholm is a dick, but he has more personality than our entire team.

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One of the worst pitching staffs (4 are injured) in New York vs. one team struggling to score...and the pitching staff wins tonight, easily. :shake:

I think he will get OBP back up, however I think it will be on the back of many singles and some doubles.

Going into the 9th we got 1 ****ing hit!

We're gonna be 8-9 in a dumpster fire Central and you guys are writing us off for the year???

Max Fried tomorrow ROFL ROFL

Witt. The only one who can hit. Everyone else is shit. It looks like they just quit. That's about it.

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Lack of torpedo bats...

One game out of first in both division and league

Oh no

So far this is a team that isn’t very fun to watch though

Great piece of hitting there

Weakest hitting lineup in MLB

Royals just need a smaller stadium to dominate

Instead, they broke the torpedo bats off in our asses.

Boring and hard to watch. But we want a new stadium please!

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Legit - Billy Butler would have been a HoF'er had he been a Yankee in that peewee stadium.

Well, they need an offensive transplant, because they're batting is terrible. Get 'em tomorrow.

Time for Q to overturn the postgame spread in the clubhouse. That’ll get the bats going.

Could play RF too!

They need a bottle of rum and a bucket of chicken to sacrifice to Jobu.

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Average, actually, according to Nick Pollack. Do you pay your bills from betting baseball? Cause he does.

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Can we just put up some of that fencing to make it smaller; at least until we get some torpedo bats and quit having bad luck?

Bobby baseball is working on becoming a coach, he says he's not worried at all about this team's offense. Well that makes one of him...

Or he might be prepping himself for something bigger... :hmmm:

My hope is the bats improve as it warms up. They haven't played a lot of warm weather games yet. It's weird because this was a legitimately okay offense up until September last year and they fell off a cliff and haven't found it again. I don't know what else you can bank on at this point, just too many holes.

Are our players allowed to wear 1980s era leg warmers, use wool gloves, and perhaps were some 4th Element undergarments (seriously good stuff!!!) to bring some of those Surprise Arizona temps back to their bats?

Drysuits? LMAO Just joking...

That was a week ago.

Black holes all over the lineup. Vinny has to hit to make this work at all. Salvy will have a hot couple months - I have no doubt.... but as it stands not doing anything to upgrade the outfield bats looks like a pretty big mistake.

It wasn't just Salvy though. I wish I had the data to prove it, but I'd bet the royals performance through August was one of the luckiest offensive performances ever. Not in the traditional measure, which is cluster luck, but in a way that shows that guys were playing so far above their head that it helped carry everyone else.

Salvy hits 368(!) in April? I believe that's the best mark of his career. Of course that's only slightly ahead of Fermin who hit .364 one month and .368 another month. Think that happens again? Massey in May hit .333 with a 970 OPS! He will never come close to that again. There is quite a bit of talk about the outfield, but in June and July we probably had a top 5 corner outfield combo in baseball. I'm serious, stop laughing. Renfroe hit 333 with a 1.078 OPS in June with a .297/870 line in July. Meanwhile Melendez had an 800 ops in June and a 944 OPS in July. To put these 900 OPS months in perspective, those would all qualify as Juan Soto's third best month last year. This is not normal. A "normal" hot month is something like Isbel hitting .303 with an 850 OPS in June last year. That is realistically the hottest he can get.

In reality sure, someone will get hot eventually, but odds are we will not have anything close to these kinds of numbers put up. For every guy who was struggling last year at a certain point, we had 2 guys having maybe the best month of their career or playing at an All Star level at least. That just isn't sustainable, and it finally hit in September and has lead into this season.

Yeah, that's a good deep dive. I agree. It's too early to give up on Massey as a productive player (not saying you're doing that) but the plan to think that Renfroe and Melendez would be better, which I admit I was guilty of, mostly because I didn't think they could be worse (I was wrong), was just pure negligence on the part of JJ and company. Isbel probably gets a bad rap by osmosis. He would be a fine 9th hitter and defensive OF if his other OF mates weren't literally the worst players in baseball.

All told, I agree with Lew, however. It's still early and despite being putrid at the plate, the team is 1 game below .500. The good news is, the pitching seems to have picked up basically where it left off last season. The starters as a collective probably have not been quite as good but the bullpen has been better and it appears Ragans has taken that next step. If Vinny and Salvy can come around and we can somehow get another living body in the outfield, we can still be competitive this year. If not, .500 is probably the best case scenario ceiling.

Oh, I can’t kick the feeling that bad things happen when Zerpa walks to the mound.

Trash move. This kid can't handle the pressure. Should have left Wacha in.