*** Official Kansas City Royals @ Oakland Athletics Game Thread (8/3) ***
 

<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> KC (57-53) </td> <td> 0 </td> <td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 4 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 4 </td><td> </td><td> 0 </td></tr>
<tr> <td> OAK (67-43) </td> <td> 0 </td> <td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 1 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 1 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 2 </td><td> </td><td> 0 </td></tr>
</table>

James Shields had a Perfect Game through 5 innings, broken up by a HR from Josh Reddick.

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

Win, (10-6) James Shields 8IP 2R 2ER 0BB 2K 2HR
Save, (31) Greg Holland 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 1K

VS.

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

Loss, (12-4) Scott Kazmir 6IP 4R 4ER 1BB 2K
Dan Otero 1⅔IP 0R 0ER 0BB 0K
Fernando Abad 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 1K
Luke Gregerson ⅓IP 0R 0ER 0BB 1K

Home Runs

KC

none

OAK

Josh Reddick, (7) - Bottom 6th solo shot to center
Josh Reddick, (8) - Bottom 8th solo shot to right

Other Relevant Games

Final: COL 0, DET 4
Final: SEA 0, BAL 1
Final: TOR 1, HOU 6
Final: NYY 8, BOS 7

Starting Lineups

KC

1. Norichika Aoki, DH
2. Omar Infante, 2B
3. Salvador Perez, C
4. Billy Butler, 1B
5. Alex Gordon, LF
6. Lorenzo Cain, RF
7. Christian Colon, 3B
8. Jarrod Dyson, CF
9. Alcides Escobar, SS

OAK

1. Sam Fuld, CF
2. John Jaso, DH
3. Josh Donaldson, 3B
4. Brandon Moss, LF
5. Stephen Vogt, 1B
6. Derek Norris, C
7. Josh Reddick, RF
8. Jed Lowrie, SS
9. Alberto Callaspo, 2B

Aoki DH, Infante 4, Perez 2, Butler 3, Gordon 7, Cain 9, Colon 5, Dyson 8, Escobar 6, Shields 1. #royals

Glass half full (pun intended): Kazmir's gonna get bombed sometime this year, right? Why can't it be today?

OOO...this is exciting!!!

Just think - if the Royals could have found a way to not completely suck at one run games, our record might have been pretty close to Oakland's.

Would have, could have, should have....

In.

we got this

In for a series win.

Butler, Hosmer, Moose. On repeat.

To the ship

Tampa Bay is on TBS today. Odorizzi is getting hammered. Took him 36 pitches to record an out and that was a base running error.

ooofff

Missed yesterday but in for today. Margaritas and homers for everyone!

And yes Bowser, good old cheap tequila in these Margs.

Please God, let the real BGJ show up and let this offense luck into 5+ runs.

Amen.

**** you in the A's!!