Originally Posted by CaliforniaChief (Post 15699943)

My son bought our family tickets to tonight's game in Anaheim. Sitting behind the Royals bullpen, and looking forward to watching Jackson Kowar make his debut.

Haven't been back to the Big A since the Royals tore them a big A in the 2014 playoffs.

Originally Posted by Mama Hip Rockets (Post 15699899)

Awesome. I took my kids to the games on Friday and Saturday. Three daughters (11, 9, and 7) and my newborn son (4 months). I taught the older daughters to keep score while we watched the game on TV on Thursday night, and they helped me keep score at both of the games we attended. They kept asking questions to confirm they were keeping score correctly. ("That's a forward K since he swung, right?") It was great. I've been trying for years to get them into sports, and I think they're finally starting to enjoy it. (I also took my oldest to her first Chiefs game last season.) When the 9-year-old woke up on Sunday morning, she said, "It's weird not being at a hotel and getting ready to go to the Royals game."

We got them Blue Crew memberships while we were there. They got cute little Royals earrings and wanted everything in the team store. They put on their Royals temporary tattoos and Blue Crew lanyards as soon as they got home. Looking forward to going to more games later this summer.

Originally Posted by cosmo20002 (Post 15700750)

So you must have gotten the Soler and Whit bobbleheads (I was there Sat.). Building them a strong bobblehead collection is important.

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch (Post 15700822)

Kowar didn’t throw his FB enough. Jeezus Sal, have him go 96 for 12 straight pitches and see where that takes you. Better than that secondary shit he wasnt getting over

Originally Posted by Chiefspants (Post 15700826)

Sal was really struggling to read his off speed stuff, too, which didn’t help.

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch (Post 15700828)

Tonite was the first time I noticed shitty framing from him.

Love Salvy but tonite was tough for him too. Needs to be said.

Originally Posted by BWillie (Post 15701011)

Tried to tune in to watch Kowar and missed it. He wasn't even in the game in the 2nd inning when I turned in.

Originally Posted by duncan_idaho (Post 15701032)

You didn't miss much.

He was overthrowing and also nibbling around the corners rather than trusting his stuff. He's got to get his breaking ball and changeup closer to the plate (and occasionally throw them for strikes) to get some swings and misses on them. It's an adjustment from AAA.

The curve looks better than it has at any point when I've seen it in the past, which is encouraging for his long-term prospects.

Originally Posted by CaliforniaChief (Post 15701068)

Yeah that was brutal. My son almost got Soler's home run...but other than that it was a long night.

Originally Posted by TLO (Post 15701073)

His change looked nasty the couple times he was able to locate it. The bottom just drops out of that thing.

Originally Posted by BWillie (Post 15701077)

On a different subject, why is Tony La Russa a baseball manager? He's damn near 80 years old and has multiple DUIs.