Kansas City Royals @ Seattle Mariners Spring Training Thread (3/29)

[alnorth]

Final	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
KC (16-11-3 spring)	2	5	0	0	0	0	9	1	0	17	22	0
SEA (14-15-2 spring)	0	8	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	12	18	3

Zack Greinke 2IP 8R 8ER 1BB 1K
Joel Peralta 1IP 1R 1ER 0BB 1K
Brandon Duckworth 2IP 0R 0ER 0BB 0K
Win, (2-0 spring) Ron Mahay 1IP 1R 1ER 0BB 1K
Juan Cruz 1IP 1R 1ER 0BB 2K
Kyle Farnsworth 1IP 1R 1ER 0BB 2K
Tim Hamulack 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 1K

VS



Jarrod Washburn 6IP 7R 7ER 1BB 3K
Blown Save, (2 spring); Loss, (0-2 spring) David Aardsma 0.2IP 5R 5ER 2BB 0K
Roy Corcoran 0IP 4R 4ER 1BB 0K
Denny Stark 1.1IP 1R 0ER 1BB 0K
Shawn Kelley 1IP 0R 0ER 1BB 2K

Starting Lineups

KC

1. Coco Crisp, CF
1. Mitch Maier, pr/CF
2. David DeJesus, LF
2. Shane Costa, LF
3. Jose Guillen, RF
3. Ross Gload, RF
4. Billy Butler, 1B
5. Mike Jacobs, DH
6. John Buck, C
6. Brayan Pena, C
7. Alex Gordon, 3B
7. Willie Bloomquist, pr/3B
8. Alberto Callaspo, 2B
9. Tony Pena Jr, SS
9. Luis Hernandez, SS

SEA

1. Ichiro Suzuki, RF
1. Wladimir Balentien, pr/RF
2. Franklin Gutierrez, CF
2. Chris Burke, CF/2B
2. Freddie Guzman, 2B
3. Ken Griffey Jr, LF
3. Mike Wilson, LF
4. Adrian Beltre, 3B
4. Chris Woodward, pr/3B
5. Mike Sweeney, DH
5. Mike Morse, DH
6. Russell Branyan, 1B
6. Chris Shelton, 1B
7. Jose Lopez, 2B
7. Brent Johnson, CF
8. Kenji Johjima, C
8. Jamie Burke, C
9. Yuniesky Betancourt, SS
9. Reegie Corona, SS

[VonneMarie]

Originally Posted by alnorth

All jokes aside, I'm really worried about our starting pitching.

[Jenson71]

The good news is that spring training pitching is usually not in top form. Does anyone have any real data that shows the relevance of spring training pitching to regular season?

[Bowser]

Leslie Nielsen restores order regarding our starting pitching thus far....

[WilliamTheIrish]

Originally Posted by tk13

Still probably not as bad as the game last Sunday where there were 15 homers. I know the ball carries in Arizona but this spring has been crazy. Who knows what's gonna happen when the team goes from this, back to the K where home runs are tough to come by.

I was at the game last Sunday. The wind was blowing 30+ to dead CF and it was 81*. Today it was 74* with negligible wind.
There were 40 hits in that game also. So I'm going to disagree with you and say that today was probably worse for both teams.

Again, I expect reality to kick in with cool weather and the fact that most professionals will kick it into gear when the real season starts.

But I'm impressed with the hitting thus far.

[alanm]

Originally Posted by Jenson71

The good news is that spring training pitching is usually not in top form. Does anyone have any real data that shows the relevance of spring training pitching to regular season?

Greinke didn't exactly inspire confidence in possibly his last tune up.

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by alanm

Greinke didn't exactly inspire confidence in possibly his last tune up.

You think Greinke really gives a sh*t right now? I don't. Greinke is crazy. He's probably trying to throw a 12th pitch or throwing that goofy 50 mph lob just because he's bored.

[alnorth]

Originally Posted by BWillie007

You think Greinke really gives a sh*t right now? I don't. Greinke is crazy. He's probably trying to throw a 12th pitch or throwing that goofy 50 mph lob just because he's bored.

He actually said today was his 2nd-best day all Spring. (last outing was the best)

He basically said he had his stuff, all his pitches went where he wanted them, and he did not want to come out when they pulled him. A lot of the other pitchers basically got hit hard, but you could tell from the play by play that Greinke had some pretty bad luck with ground balls either dying in the grass for infield singles or barely crawling out of the infield.