Kansas City Royals @ Atlanta Braves Game Thread (4/16)
 

<table border=3 cellpadding = 4>
<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 (7-6) </td> <td> 0 </td> <td> 0 </td><td> 1 </td><td> 1 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 1 </td><td> 3 </td><td> 9 </td><td> 1 </td></tr>
<tr> <td> ATL (12-1) </td> <td> 0 </td> <td> 1 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 1 </td><td> 4 </td><td> X </td><td> 6 </td><td> 9 </td><td> 3 </td></tr>
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Chris Getz hits his first home run since July 19, 2009

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

Jeremy Guthrie 7IP 2R 2ER 1BB 6K 2HR
Loss, (1-1) Kelvin Herrera ⅔IP 4R 4ER 1BB 0K 3HR
Aaron Crow ⅓IP 0R 0ER 0BB 0K

VS.

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Kris Medlen 7IP 2R 1ER 0BB 5K 1HR
Win, (3-0) Eric O'Flaherty 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 2K
Luis Avilan ⅓IP 1R 1ER 0BB 0K
Craig Kimbrel ⅔IP 0R 0ER 0BB 1K

Home Runs

KC

Chris Getz, yes that Chris Getz. Really, I'm serious, (1) - Top 3rd solo shot to right

ATL

Juan Francisco, (2) - Bottom 2nd solo shot to right
Juan Francisco, (3) - Bottom 7th solo shot to center
Jason Heyward, (2) - Bottom 8th solo shot to left
Justin Upton, (8) - Bottom 8th solo shot to left
Dan Uggla, (3) - Bottom 8th solo shot to left

AL Central

Final: BOS 7, CLE 2
Final: CWS 4, TOR 3
Final: LAA 6, MIN 8
Final: DET 6, SEA 2

Starting Lineups

KC

1. Alex Gordon, LF
2. Alcides Escobar, SS
3. Eric Hosmer, 1B
4. Salvador Perez, C
5. Lorenzo Cain, CF
6. Mike Moustakas, 3B
7. Jeff Francoeur, RF
8. Chris Getz, 2B
9. Jeremy Guthrie, P
9. Kelvin Herrera, P
9. Aaron Crow, P
9. Billy Butler, ph

ATL

1. B.J. Upton, CF
2. Jason Heyward, RF
3. Justin Upton, LF
4. Evan Gattis, C
5. Dan Uggla, 2B
6. Juan Francisco, 3B
6. Jordan Schafer, pr
6. Luis Avilan, P
6. Craig Kimbrel, P
7. Chris Johnson, 1B
8. Andrelton Simmons, SS
9. Kris Medlen, P
9. Blake DeWitt, ph
9. Eric O'Flaherty, P
9. Ramiro Pena, 3B

Well this'd be a great one to win.

Hoping for a decent game today. Won't get to see tomorrow's. Let's expose these Bravos for what they are!

Just a reminder....


For anyone that can't watch on TV, the game will be free online in full HD on MLB.TV

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The team was all hanging out at Frenchy's house last night.

Was listening to some Braves stats on MLB network and if they keep it up KC best be bringing their A game plus.

Tough road trip.

What's with all these road NL games early on?

get used to it. Now that the leagues each have an odd number of teams, there must be an interleague series every week and every weekend.

glass half full: they played half their games against the Marlins and Cubs.

Though they did just sweep Washington, so they are definitely a tough team.

I realize that but we still only have what? 8 interleague series? That would be about 12 games in NL parks. Seems odd for us already to have 5.

Its our good fortune. Some AL teams will have the bad luck to have to play a bunch of road NL games later in the year.

I'd rather have all of our road NL games out of the way early, because every team's hitters usually take a while to heat up. We've got 6 home interleague games in August, which is great because hopefully by then Hosmer and Moose will be fixed and we'll have all hands on deck to beat them while they are scrambling to find a useful DH. (edit: and 6 home interleague games in June! We will have only 3 road NL games after May is done!)

Royals have played OK in Atlanta before.

Crazy how that works.

3 in philly, 2 or 3 in StL, ...........Atl........etc.