*** Royals vs Angels GDT 06/28/14 ***
 

Saturday, June 28, 2014
Angels @ Royals

(44-34)
(41-38)

Saturday 6/28, 2:10 PM ET at Kauffman Stadium
Radio: LAA: KLAA 830, KWKU 1220 KC: KCSP 610, Royals Radio Network
TV: LAA: FS-W KC: FSKC

Angels 2014 stats Last 5 years vs. starter
AVG HR RBI SB AB AVG HR RBI
Calhoun, K, RF .270 6 17 3 - - - -
Trout, M, CF .313 18 59 10 - - - -
Pujols, A, DH .259 16 47 3 - - - -
Hamilton, J, LF .319 3 18 3 - - - -
Aybar, E, SS .284 5 40 7 - - - -
Kendrick, H, 2B .275 4 32 9 - - - -
Cron, C, 1B .301 8 22 0 - - - -
Freese, D, 3B .228 2 18 0 - - - -
Conger, H, C .237 3 16 0 - - - -

SP- Hector Santiago
2014 season
0-7, 4.41 ERA, 1.35 WHIP, 43 Ks
vs. Royals last 5 years
1-0, 1.04 ERA, 0.88 WHIP, 25 Ks

Royals 2014 stats Last 5 years vs. starter
AVG HR RBI SB AB AVG HR RBI
Cain, L, CF .317 3 33 7 5 .000 0 1
Hosmer, E, 1B .249 4 35 2 11 .273 1 1
Butler, B, DH .280 2 34 0 7 .143 0 0
Gordon, A, LF .277 9 41 6 9 .111 0 0
Perez, S, C .288 9 27 1 6 .167 0 0
Infante, O, 2B .247 5 38 3 3 1.000 0 1
Valencia, D, 3B .263 1 7 0 4 .500 0 0
Maxwell, J, RF .162 0 3 0 0 - 0 0
Escobar, A, SS .288 2 24 20 9 .222 0 0

SP- Yordano Ventura
2014 season
5-6, 3.20 ERA, 1.25 WHIP, 73 Ks
vs. Angels last 5 years
0-0, -.-- ERA, 0.00 WHIP, 0 Ks
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Let's get us another win today, pitchers news worth noting here.....

Santiago comes in with the disadvantage of not making a start in 13 days after he was skipped over during the last turn of the rotation. He only pitched out of the bullpen once in the interim -- a one-out appearance on Sunday -- but insists he has no issue with the extra rest.

"I've done it a bunch of times. I'm used to it," Santiago said.

Opposite Santiago, the Royals will turn to rookie righty Yordano Ventura, who has gone 3-1 with a 2.67 ERA across his last four starts.

Ventura's last outing against the Mariners was another impressive one -- a seven-inning, two-run affair that saw him register six strikeouts -- but he wound up taking the tough-luck loss on a go-ahead solo shot from Mike Zunino in the seventh inning.

INFTW

In. Let's get a winning streak started.

BEAT LA

Where is Dyson!!

of Anaheim of California of USA!!

Let's **** this up

Let's do it!

#bestbullpeninmlb

C'mon Ace

Good inning

Fat Belly!

Rain at the K

Gordon is hopelessly lost at the plate. i think he got hit by a pitch and had a shitty foul out that was lucky to result in a sac fly RBI last night, but outside of that i think he's about 0 for his last 19 or something along those lines.

0-14ish

Rain delay. I want to go play on that tarp.

Well that was odd.

Get that tarp OUTTA HERE!!

Looking at radar, I'd expect a lot of delays, if not a postponement. Let's hope the Royals can get the lead and get through 5 fast.

Tarp halfway on, now off

i totaled it up, including today he's 0 for his last 18. he last got a hit in the 2nd inning of the game we lost to Seattle on June 22nd.

Easy inning

Holy shit wrong thread

someone please tell Denny Matthews that not only is it pronounced, "poo-holes", not "poo-holTs", he doesn't need to say the nam 27 times in 3 pitches

Watching Ned out-think himself by starting Maxwell the strike out King.

Nothing doing

Dyson has consistently provided a spark the last few weeks on both offense and defense, one way or the other. So Ned sits him for a guy who hasn't done shit all year,

Thunderstorms just south of I-70.....

I'll give this game another 30 mins at most.

wow, that was ****ing close

As Denny Matthews would say "that brings up Pooholts"

****....two lucky ass hits and now another lucky break. Things going the way of LA of A this inning

Shit

Alright, damage minimized. Let's get some runs now, guys.

Time to get it back

Esky with a knock

alright, let's get him in now, Cain!

little low there, heh, Ump?

Meh, Cain, you gotta put that in play, buddy. Way to swing at the first pitch, Hosmer....you ****ing idiot

hosmer never saw a first pitch he didn't want to swing at

And Ned keeps batting him in the #2 & 3 spots like he is hitting .300 or something

I wish we could afford to bench his dumb ****ING ass. He's has turned into a flat awful offensive player.

almost positive that the pitch Hosmer swung at was about shoulder level too. that dude swings early and often and unfortunately makes contact on just about everything out of the zone.

too bad Cain couldn't have got Esky over.....that would have tied the game right there

On my way to the game.

Strand a guy at 2B with no outs. Nice job assholes!

Dude has absolutely no approach philosophy at all.

He's the next Mark Quinn.

TStorms close

You gotta look at just how pathetic the Hosmer AB was and I blame Hos, Yost and Sveum.

You have a pitcher who is easily rattled, he throws one by the catcher. Okay, Cain strikes out swinging, shit happens. But what does Hos do when facing said pitcher, bails his ass out with one swing on one pitch. Meanwhile Yost and Sveum are still debating the legalities of using this thing called the "take" sign.

I still say this game gets postponed. Once it starts, it's not stopping and it'll be heavy.

Yordano gives up a lot of extra basehits.

Ventura not looking very sharp. bring on the rain!

Ventura fooling no one

This. Let them get their hits washed away.

Yordano leaving the ball up too much

Minimal damage

Nah, we just hit too many singles by comparison

C'mon Salvy

Here in time to see Alex's double & rain!

Once again we can't move the ****ing runner. Every time we get a runner on 2nd with 0 outs when proceed to strike out

Come on Omar!

It's so bad. Seriously, when your offense is as bad as ours is, you have to be able to advance runners. AWFUL!

Damn Omar, perfect pitch to go the other way!

JFC, you gotta be shitting me

this drives me insane.

Turning this guy into Cy Young

0-5 with RISP this game.

that was outside

Not only was strike 2 outside...it wasn't even close to being a strike

by a mile

Come on Danny!

i'm afraid this game can't get called soon enough.

Leadoff double...runner never moves.....

Rain Delay!

Rain

Won't matter, this game's done.

So what are the rules in this situation regarding rain?

Let it rain all day now

In the hands of the umps now

If the K was about 10 miles to the west, it would've missed and probably gotten to like the 7th inning or so. Pretty lucky.