*** Official Kansas City Royals @ Minnesota Twins Game Thread (8/16) ***

[alnorth]

Final	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
KC (67-55)	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	1
MIN (55-66)	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	X	4	6	1

Loss, (9-9) Yordano Ventura 6⅔IP 3R 3ER 6BB 4K
Francisley Bueno ⅓IP 0R 0ER 0BB 0K
Aaron Crow 1IP 1R 1ER 0BB 1K 1HR

VS.



Win, (13-8) Phil Hughes 7⅓IP 1R 1ER 0BB 6K
Hold, (23) Casey Fien ⅔IP 0R 0ER 0BB 1K
Save, (31) Glen Perkins 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 2K

Home Runs

KC

none

MIN

Kurt Suzuki, (3) - Bottom 8th solo shot to left

Other Relevant Games

Final: BAL 0, CLE 6
Final: SEA 2, DET 4
Final: OAK 3, ATL 4
Final: LAA 5, TEX 4

Starting Lineups

KC

1. Norichika Aoki, RF
2. Omar Infante, 2B
3. Salvador Perez, C
4. Billy Butler, 1B
5. Alex Gordon, LF
6. Lorenzo Cain, CF
7. Raul Ibanez, DH
7. Josh Willingham, ph/DH
8. Mike Moustakas, 3B
9. Alcides Escobar, SS

MIN

1. Danny Santana, SS/CF
2. Brian Dozier 2B
3. Joe Mauer 1B
4. Kennys Vargas DH
5. Oswaldo Arcia RF
6. Trevor Plouffe 3B
7. Kurt Suzuki C
8. Chris Parmelee LF
8. Eduardo Escobar, pr/SS
9. Jordan Schafer CF/LF

[Bowser]

Yeah, Ned had a few Yostisms tonight. Why pinch hit for Raul when Raul was .545 with a couple of home runs against Perkins?

Oh well, can't win them all (Ned will guarantee that). On to tomorrow.

[BigCatDaddy]

Originally Posted by DeezNutz

Fun times. Completely ****ing shocked to see Ventura, who had been fighting his control yet gave a yeoman's effort, out for the 7th.

Here's where Yost demonstrates impressive stupidity. The pitcher is clearly tight-rope walking for much of the night, and the mother****er is at 97 pitches. Plus, he's a ****ing n00b.

This isn't James ****ing Shields on the last year of his deal with the team.

Just a ****ing joke. Yes, the offense needs to score more than 1 run. But you know what? ****ing ML teams are allowed to win 1-0, and sometimes managers prevent this from happening by being ****ing stupid.

Just like Ned was tonight. Hope this doesn't come back to bite us in the ass, but this one is clearly on Yost.

It's just frustrating. They said on 810 today how it just didn't seem to be Royal like with the things going on and they seem to good to be true. They pointed out Ned actually being proactive in pulling Duffy last night rather than wait until the other team does damage that everyone knows is coming before making the move and if damn it he didn't revert back to the same old shit tonight. Just a horrible in game manager.

[Nzoner]

Originally Posted by DeezNutz

Fun times. Completely ****ing shocked to see Ventura, who had been fighting his control yet gave a yeoman's effort, out for the 7th.

Here's where Yost demonstrates impressive stupidity. The pitcher is clearly tight-rope walking for much of the night, and the mother****er is at 97 pitches. Plus, he's a ****ing n00b.

This isn't James ****ing Shields on the last year of his deal with the team.

Just a ****ing joke. Yes, the offense needs to score more than 1 run. But you know what? ****ing ML teams are allowed to win 1-0, and sometimes managers prevent this from happening by being ****ing stupid.

Just like Ned was tonight. Hope this doesn't come back to bite us in the ass, but this one is clearly on Yost.

Great take and a perfect example of why The Brewers fired Yost during a play-off race.