* Kansas City Royals @ Philadelphia Phillies Game Thread (4/6) *
 

<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 (2-3) </td> <td> 0 </td> <td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 2 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 1 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 3 </td><td> 6 </td><td> 0 </td></tr>
<tr> <td> PHI (2-3) </td> <td> 0 </td> <td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 1 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 3 </td><td> 4 </td><td> 3 </td><td> 2 </td></tr>
</table>

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Luis Mendoza 6IP 1R 1ER 3BB 7K
Hold, (2) Aaron Crow 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 1K
Hold, (2) Kelvin Herrera 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 2K
Blown Save, (1); Loss, (0-1) Greg Holland ⅔IP 3R 3ER 3BB 2K

VS.

http://kansascity.royals.mlb.com/ima.../80x80/phi.png

John Lannan 7IP 3R 3ER 0BB 5K
Mike Adams 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 1K
Win, (1-0) Antonio Bastardo 1IP 0R 0ER 1BB 0K

Home Runs

none

AL Central

Final: SEA 3, CWS 4
Final: NYY 4, DET 8
Final: MIN 6, BAL 5
Final: CLE 0, TB 6

Starting Lineups

KC

1. Alex Gordon, LF
2. Alcides Escobar, SS
3. Billy Butler, 1B
3. Jarrod Dyson, pr
3. Kelvin Herrera, P
3. Greg Holland, P
4. Salvador Perez, C
5. Lorenzo Cain, CF
6. Jeff Francoeur, RF
7. Miguel Tejada, 3B
7. Aaron Crow, P
7. Eric Hosmer, 1B
8. Elliot Johnson, 2B/3B
9. Luis Mendoza, P
9. Chris Getz, ph/2B

PHI

1. Ben Revere, CF
2. Jimmy Rollins, SS
3. Chase Utley, 2B
4. Ryan Howard, 1B
4. Ezequiel Carrera, pr
5. Michael Young, 3B
6. Domonic Brown, LF
7. John Mayberry, RF
8. Humberto Quintero, C
8. Kevin Frandsen, ph
9. John Lannan, P
9. Mike Adams, P
9. Laynce Nix, ph
9. Antonio Bastardo, P

I don't normally do asterisks, but they seem to be working, so I threw a couple in there.

14 runs today?

This will be the last time we see .500 this year, book it.

So the whole superstitious GT starting thing is out the window, apparently.:)

Hosmer's hot so Leadhead Ned's going to cool him down

Totally missed that.

WTF.

Hosmer in RF, please.

Sitting Hos after a 4-hit game? :spock:

We've been superstitious about GT starting privs. since I can remember, and none of our teams have won jack squat. So I like it. Maybe the Chiefs side of us can learn from it.

I guess it's better to have Hos sit out feeling good about himself than the other way around. Lefty starting, so I get it.

Lannan's a soft-tosser. Let's go boys.

Sitting Hos? Really? Hopefully that's wrong since it was said yesterday that Hos was going to in RF so Billy could play first.

Heading to Philly for the weekend games. If things go badly, you can blame me. Go Royals!

Hosmer won't play RF today. Maybe later in the year, who knows. He looked bad in RF last year, and they apparently still don't think he's got the position figured out yet.

If you can only play Butler or Hosmer, then it makes sense to play Hos yesterday and Butler against the two leftys.

Wooo Hoooo tied for first place in the division

I believe the next two Philly starters are lefties. Hos will be seeing the pine until they get into the Philly bullpen for righties

I would imagine Hamels won't be easy to get to...so hopefully we can lock up the series and a .500 record on this opening road trip. You'd have to call that a successful start, honestly.

And who knows? Maybe Shields will beat Hamels tomorrow. It's entirely possible.