Detroit Tigers @ Kansas City Royals Game Thread (4/17)
 

<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> </td><td> E </td></tr>
<tr> <td> DET (8-3) </td> <td> 0 </td> <td> 1 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 2 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 3 </td><td> </td><td> 1 </td></tr>
<tr> <td> KC (3-8) </td> <td> 0 </td> <td> 0 </td><td> 1 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 1 </td><td> </td><td> 0 </td></tr>
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http://kansascity.royals.mlb.com/ima.../80x80/det.png

Drew Smyly 6IP 1R 0ER 1BB 4K
Win, (1-0) Octavio Dotel 1IP 0R 0ER 1BB 0K
Hold, (3) Joaquin Benoit 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 3K
Save, (2) Jose Valverde 1IP 0R 0ER 1BB 1K

VS.

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

Loss, (0-1) Bruce Chen 7IP 2R 2ER 0BB 7K
Greg Holland ⅔IP 1R 1ER 0BB 2K
Tim Collins ⅓IP 0R 0ER 0BB 1K
Kelvin Herrera 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 0K

Home Runs

none

Starting Lineups

DET

1. Austin Jackson, CF
2. Brennan Boesch, RF
3. Miguel Cabrera, 3B
4. Prince Fielder, 1B
5. Delmon Young, LF
5. Brandon Inge, 2B
6. Alex Avila, C
7. Ryan Raburn, 2B/LF
8. Ramon Santiago, SS
9. Andy Dirks, DH
9. Don Kelly, ph/DH

KC

1. Alex Gordon, LF
2. Jason Bourgeois, CF
3. Eric Hosmer, 1B
4. Billy Butler, DH
5. Jeff Francoeur, RF
6. Mike Moustakas, 3B
7. Yuniesky Betancourt, 2B
8. Brayan Pena, C
9. Alcides Escobar, SS

Can we please bring Johnny Giavotella up? Soon?

If we don't get a win tonight you can pretty much forget about ever seeing .500 the rest of the season

Time to start a winning streak tonight

This might have more merit than we want to admit.

As the old saying goes, you can't win a division (or realistically, a wild card) in April, but you definitely can lose it. We don't need to reel off a big 6-7 game winning streak right now, but we can't keep losing.

Unfortunately I think it does. I don't see this team putting together any 5-6 game winning streaks with our pitching. We'll be lucky to couch a couple 2-3 game winning streaks around a loss or two.

Hope the homeplate ump has a larger strikezone tonight or Detriot will tee off on Chen

We got this.

Just looked him up. Mark Wegner appears to have a vanilla strike zone, not particularly large or small.

Good. Thanks for looking it up

1st inning
 

Top 1st

Jackson strikes out (swinging)
Boesch singles to left
Cabrera fouls out to first
Fielder strikes out (looking)

0 runs, 1 hit

Bottom 1st

Gordon strikes out (looking)
Bourgeois hits an infield single to second
Bourgeois picked off and caught stealing 1-3-6, out at second
Hosmer strikes out (swinging)

0 runs, 1 hit

Shades of Jeff Francis with that 68 mph pitch

who is the 2nd guy in the booth?


gawd, he is an irritating ****.

Looks like another big crowd tonight!