***Official Kansas City Royals @ Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Game Thread (4/11)***

[alnorth]

Final	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
KC (5-0)	0	0	0	5	1	0	0	0	0	6	12	0
LAA (2-3)	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	4	6	0

Win, (1-0) Jeremy Guthrie 7IP 4R 4ER 1BB 2K 1HR
Hold, (1) Wade Davis 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 0K
Save, (3) Greg Holland 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 1K

VS.



Loss, (0-2) Jered Weaver 4⅓IP 6R 6ER 4BB 5K 2HR
Drew Rucinski 2IP 0R 0ER 0BB 2K
Cesar Ramos ⅓IP 0R 0ER 0BB 0K
Mike Morin 1⅓IP 0R 0ER 0BB 0K
Jose Alvarez 0IP 0R 0ER 0BB 1K

Home Runs

KC

Mike Moustakas, (2) - Top 4th long freaking bomb to center
Salvador Perez, (2) - Top 4th 2-run homer to left

LAA

Kole Calhoun, (1) - Bottom 1st solo shot to center

AL Central

Final: MIN 4, CWS 5
Final: DET 9, CLE 6

KC

1. Alcides Escobar, SS
2. Mike Moustakas, 3B
3. Lorenzo Cain, CF
4. Eric Hosmer, 1B
5. Kendrys Morales, DH
6. Alex Gordon, LF
7. Alex Rios, RF
8. Salvador Perez, C
9. Omar Infante, 2B

LAA

1. Kole Calhoun, RF
2. Mike Trout, CF
3. Albert Pujols, 1B
4. Matt Joyce, LF
5. David Freese, 3B
6. Erick Aybar, SS
7. Efren Navarro, DH
8. Drew Butera, C
8. Chris Iannetta, ph/C
9. Johnny Giavotella, 2B

[Al Bundy]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

Two things...

1. I love all the dancing and silly handshakes and shit, but there's a reason we keep getting plunked. Other teams are sending a message to Moose and Hosmer to knock their shit off and hitting Gordon because he's the veteran leader who should be self policing the team.

and they keep hitting homeruns. What is going to happen is one of the opposing teams players is going to get plunked and they (the other team) will be highly pissed off and want to fight.

[ChiTown]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

Two things...

1. I love all the dancing and silly handshakes and shit, but there's a reason we keep getting plunked. Other teams are sending a message to Moose and Hosmer to knock their shit off and hitting Gordon because he's the veteran leader who should be self policing the team.

Oh, please. That's who this team is. F' em if they don't like.

[SPchief]

Originally Posted by duncan_idaho

Run differential is not a random stat. It's one of the more common team advanced stats.

Teams with huge run differentials tend to be pretty good. Especially in the regular season.

Edit: Derp, I apparently can't do math last night, or today

[milkman]

Originally Posted by SPchief

Edit: Derp, I apparently can't do math last night, or today

New math?

[SPchief]

So yeah, disregard my arguments on that subject. Whoops.

[CaliforniaChief]

My wife roots for the Royals because I do. She really has no choice. But the last two nights she's been watching and she says repeatedly how much fun they are to watch with their handshakes, dancing, laughing, and hustle. They're intense and oh, yeah, play damned good baseball too.

Don't change a thing. If the rest of the league doesn't like it, they can turn off the TV when we're winning in October.

[Mama Hip Rockets]

Originally Posted by cosmo20002

That's fine. Puts people on base.
And its the only way Gordo is getting on base.

Haha. True.

[Mama Hip Rockets]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

I love all the dancing and silly handshakes and shit, but there's a reason we keep getting plunked.

Pretty much everybody in the league does that stuff now. Every time someone hits a double, they look at the dugout and celebrate their greatness in some sort of gyrating fashion. I really don't think that's why they're getting hit.

[DJJasonp]

I'd much rather have a team loose, having fun, and actually like each other....than a bunch of stiffs.

Baseball is a game......it's not going to an office job or church.

[ROYC75]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

Two things...

1. I love all the dancing and silly handshakes and shit, but there's a reason we keep getting plunked. Other teams are sending a message to Moose and Hosmer to knock their shit off and hitting Gordon because he's the veteran leader who should be self policing the team.

2. If we're going to do the "Billy Butler nickname for Morales" thing, it should be Third World Country Breakfast.

This team is made up of a bunch of 20 - 30 year old kids, they are just enjoying themselves. I recall another team that used Do WA Diddy as their teams celebration song ever time they won a game .

We are still talking bout a bunch of big kids having fun..

[Saul Good]

I love watching them. The code of the game is a joke, but you aren't going to convince me that other teams aren't pissed off about the constant top-stepping and Gatorade baths after every home win.

[duncan_idaho]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

I love watching them. The code of the game is a joke, but you aren't going to convince me that other teams aren't pissed off about the constant top-stepping and Gatorade baths after every home win.

The Cardinals are probably the only team that take themselves seriously enough to actually be bothered by this.

Maybe the Yankees back in the day would have, too. But I don't think most teams give a shit.

[alnorth]

Originally Posted by SPchief

Well, yeah. What else would it be for some random stat?

well, run differential is a very common stat that people list right after the standings. When teams are tied, people often use run differential to list the order if they don't want to use alphabetical order.

I can't explain Atlanta, though. Listing Atlanta second pretty much shows that they picked their order based on how good they think the teams "should" have been.

[Prison Bitch]

I've been pretty shocked by Morales so far. Not much data yet but that big goon is having great ABs and he's hitting it hard to all fields. If he stays healthy and produces even close to week 1, it changes our entire season.

[duncan_idaho]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

I've been pretty shocked by Morales so far. Not much data yet but that big goon is having great ABs and he's hitting it hard to all fields. If he stays healthy and produces even close to week 1, it changes our entire season.

I'm pleasantly surprised but not shocked. You could make a reasonable case that his disastrous 2014 was due to the weird circumstances around the start of the season.

Probably time for Royals fans to just give the team the benefit of the doubt when it makes a "bounceback" signing like this, considering recent history.