That almost went out

I thought Omar had a dinger there.

rios gotta come through here

Going to be a thrilling game, from the looks of the first 2 innings.

Infante cannot be contained.

Infante tearing it up!

Can't wait to see how dipshit ****s this one up

that was ball 4

:facepalm:

****ing Rios can't even put the ball in play.

we have to get at least 1 here..we cannot **** this off

Put it in play somewhere and we score. Terrible.

Warning track power.

Rios you ****

Rios sucks.

Owww!

Figured

Get back in this one boys!

esky gotta stay out of the dp

Slap a liner to right here

Ball in the gap or down the line and Dyson will be walking home safely.

Too bad dumb **** didn't take that walk by defensively swinging at ball four

Double here ties the game

I thought Esky was about to kill that shit.

Hanging spinner

this won't end well.....rios sapped the momentum

In prime 3-1 count

Damn, hell of a play.

Sob

GAAAAAH!!

****ing Krang.

wow....this really sucks..come on moose

Moose Dong!!

I'll never get how a "ung" sound gets transliterated as a "ang."

Well that sucks.

****ing brutal

Blah

Well, ****!

**** not even one

welp....2nd & 3rd, no outs and we don't get shit...not our game tonight....thanks rios

That was not optimal

How much of it is just regression to the mean, though?

His walk rate is down, K-rate is the same, he's inducing more groundballs, fewer line drives, and fewer flyballs. When he throws a ball outside of the zone and the batter swings, they make contact a lot less often than last year, but they hit stuff inside the zone more often.

His SIERA and xFIP is almost the same as last year, where he outperformed his peripherals.

I haven't seen him save for a few starts (once live). Is he really all that different of a pitcher? They all can't have the horseshoe-filled ass of Chris Young.

Still gonna blame Rios on that. Terrible

I blame it on Gordon's injury.

Just call him Kim Jong Un. It's easier to remember. I hate that ****.

Holy ****ing gut.

Rios is such a boner killer

I hope the fat guy on the end just ate Alex Rios.

FYI, Aaron Crow only has two pitches.

**** him...douche swung at ball 4 with a strike to give and then whiffed not even giving us a chance.....

A lot more pitches across the middle with no movement and some type of injury.

Too hard to teach a polished college righty a changeup grip?

Just ask yourself one thing ... What's harder to hit? 95 or 98?

That 3 MPH makes a world of difference. If Kelvin Herrera threw 95 he'd be useless. Last year, Ventura led baseball in pitches thrown over 98 MPH and led all starters in average MPH fastball

This year? I guarantee he's way down. 95 is hittable. 99 takes luck. The difference between 90 & 95 is one thing, the difference between 95 & 100 is just HUGE

That's duncan's field, not mine.

He's gunning it now ... Maybe he's done with this "throw softer" bullshit

This series scared me because of the pitching match ups. Cole tomorrow is a loss. I was hoping for a win tonight so we'd have a chance on Wednesday to take the series.

this game is over

F*******.

98 over the heart of the plate.

This must be what it feels like to play against us when we're hitting well.

We were +160 against the Sox with Sale the other day

I've learned not to count the Royals out against ace pitchers this year

If we just played 7 infielders in this inning, we'd have two outs.

No real command to finish guys, and some hard hit ground balls finding holes

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Can we pick up Ho Kang so we can have Lo Cain and Ho Kang?

Ventura just sucks to watch this year. No command, mediocre secondary pitches, spike in velo ...

BS, he went.

56 pitches. 6 outs. 1 dude who should be in Omaha.

That's going to catch up with us sooner or later.

He's a ****ing mental mess.

And he's mentally likely out of this.

That would be nice to see.

His two seam velocity is 95.7 this year. It was 96.6 last year. He was 96.0 with a four-seamer last year and 94.5 this year.

That could account for some of it, but the increase in the value of his changeup has made him effectively the same pitcher.

Looks like we're gonna need more than one SP in a trade.

Yodiva Ventura

People say this shouldn't matter, but Shields made such a difference in this staff. Ventura and Duffy have just not been as mentally sharp without him. Shields just set a good example by going out and grinding every start.

What is it with this team and having headcase pitchers come up through our system?

Yordana VenBUSTa

LMAO. If Alvarez was a 2nd round pick rather than the 2nd overall pick he would have been DFA'd years ago. He is so terrible.

I just don't agree. You're telling me Jeremy Guthrie isn't a guy who can keep those kids mentally sharp? Come on. That's garbage. Maybe Shields should have taught some of these assholes his changeup. That would've been nice.