Most likely an anomaly. But it was solid work agains the top team in the division. And it appears the Royals are catching the Indiuardians at the right moment.

Not just last night. 3 earned runs in 16.2 innings in this series so far.

:bravo::bravo::bravo:

TIED FOR FIRST!!

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Hell of a job last night and I certainly hope so!

But, honestly, I think what we saw last night says a LOT more about where Cleveland is right now that it does our bullpen. They're reeling . . . . . BAD. They just seem mentally beat down right now (which is great for us!)

Unless something dramatic changes, I'd say the division will come down to us and Minnesota. We're gonna have to beat them next week. Got 6 straight at home against Cleveland then Twins.

Fun times to be a Royals fan again!

Yessir. The much maligned bullpen won this games and the offense delivered too. It takes a lot of pressure off when the fellas hit.

Stephen Vogt’s face in the press conference last night was very similar to the mug he wore just after the Royals snatched the WC game away from the A’s on 09/30/2014

Perfect. LMAO

Cleveland has always had the look of a team that would falter. They seemed like a team that would get to the playoffs and get swept.

Interested in why you say this? I don't follow other teams close enough to know why Cleveland appears to be built on a house of cards and has fallen apart.

Their starting rotation has been patchwork all year. Their bullpen is lights-out, but heavy usage is wearing it down. Except for Clase, who is an alien.

Their offense has also been flailing bad when JRam isn't mashing.

And he hasn't been lately . . . .

I was going to say that their offense was really lucky in the first half. Not in BABIP or anything, just guys having miracle starts. For example, at the end of may, their catcher David fry had a 1.128 OPS. He was averaging a home run every 11 plate appearances. You’re not going to believe this but he hasn’t kept that up, hitting about .190 since July and went 120 plate appearances without a HR. Kwan is another one. He missed most of may injured, but in the middle of June he was hitting .397(!) with a 1.000 OPS. He had set his career high for home runs in a season in half the at bats of any previous season. Again, it’s not sustainable, and he’s been crashing back to earth since then, hitting .198 in August and his ops is trending down to the mid .700s where it has been in his first 2 seasons.

All last year they struggled to score and hit home runs, finishing last by 27 home runs! It’s a bit out of the ordinary that they added no major FAs or called up any huge prospects and through the first half they were a top 10 team in home runs. That was due for a correction and it has certainly come due for them.

Throw Kwan in there. His numbers have cratered since the ASB.

Damn…. Was afraid of this…

Michael Lorenzen to the 15 day IL with a hamstring strain. Reallly hope this doesn’t linger. He’s been a dynamite acquisition and we need him back and healthy ASAP.

Yep, hopefully with rest it'll be like new.

JJ says 2-3 weeks but we all know hamstrings can be longer than that. Could linger for most of the rest of the season.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">JJ Picollo tells me Michael Lorenzen has a grade two hamstring strain and is expected to miss two to three weeks</p>&mdash; Joel Goldberg (@goldbergkc) <a href="https://twitter.com/goldbergkc/status/1828835180410515879?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 28, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Okay, Marsh. Here’s you shot to stick once and for all.

What the deal with Ragans status

Salvy can't help... himself on sliders. He wants to eat every one.

Nice work, MW.

Last I heard, he was in intensive care at the Mayo Clinic with less than a 10% chance to live due to leg cramps. Say your prayers everyone.

Even when the White Sox try to win they can't catch a break. Loss #103.

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He is supposed to start on Saturday.

Has anyone heard on Hunter Harvey? Did he get chainsawed in half? Or is his back aching a bit?

From an injury perspective, he is fine. From a running on fumes due to exceeding career highs in innings pitched (same as Lugo), I'm not so sure. We'll see. Obviously gonna need his A game the rest of the way, hope he can deliver it.

I expect Harvey to be better. No way hes this bad

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Damn, didn't need this!

When is Marsh due back?

Who we got in Omaha?

Is it time to let Bubic back into the rotation some?

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I'm certainly not a fan, nor am a, Al "I Eat My Own Shit" Bundy apologist... but there might be something to the Hunter Harvey thing. He's had back issues before, and had back spasms earlier this year for the Nats, so this isn't something new. I'm hoping we can ride out the next two weeks, and hopefully get a healthy-sh version of Hunter good to go for the last couple weeks of the season/playoffs.

Post injury updates in here when they come out.

Well, we'll see if we can field a team for tomorrow's game.

In the spirit of election season, I can only imagine what Erceg’s poll numbers among Royals fans looked like a few days ago vs now.

We should be in sole possession of first place rn but Erceg has blown the last 2 games

Pack it in. Play for wildcard. Team too beat up

Stfu, he's given us 11 appearances of cyborg level relief. Even the best guys have an off game or 2. I'm not worried at all. You're a ****ing returd.

Erceg's routine was thrown off, if he had remained the closer they win.

Not the best night Royals fans…. I was feeling a little down earlier tonight, but I realized we’ve earned everything we’ve gotten thus far. We’ve been knocked down plenty, left for dead, and we just keep getting up and continue to make this one of the most remarkable seasons on record. Watch this, I think we all kinda need it right now…

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27 games left. Let’s do this.

It just doesn’t matter!!! It just doesn’t matter!!! It just doesn’t matter!!!!

Royals will do damage

ID FOLLOW THIS GUY INTO THE PITS OF HELL!!! LETS GO WRECK SOME SHIT!!!

:LOL:

Not good.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Vinnie Pasquantino has a broken right thumb, and further tests are scheduled today. He could return in six to eight weeks.</p>&mdash; Kansas City Royals (@Royals) <a href="https://twitter.com/Royals/status/1829527115450225112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 30, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Vinnie Pasquantino has a broken right thumb, and further tests are scheduled today. He could return in six to eight weeks.</p>&mdash; Kansas City Royals (@Royals) <a href="https://twitter.com/Royals/status/1829527115450225112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 30, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Freddy is no Pasquatch but he’s a very solid player, I have faith in him as Salvy will move to first full time now

Fock

Who gets the call up?

Probably Nola

That sucks.

Oh no. That's not ever good when a team loses their top RBI guy. :(

Fescoe and Co are talking about bringing Caglianone up rofl

this sucks.

All from a ball that should have been an inning-ending double play.

They're misinformed.

I hear over and over that the jump from Triple-A to the majors is the toughest it's ever been.

Jac is in high Single-A.

It sucks but Vinny isn't Bobby or Salvy.

****ing hell. We've been relatively healthy all ****ing season and now all of this shit is happening. Shitty timing.

Just awful. And honestly we’ve been really close to losing Bobby a few times on those pitches hitting him on the hands.

If only it were that simple. This will change the way pitchers attack our lineup. I agree that if you had to pick one of those 3 to miss the rest of the season, he would be the one you’d probably pick but the fact is that we just lost 33% of the guys that opposing pitchers give a shit about in our lineup.

I will donate my thumb if needed. I don’t need two.

****ing hell. This is really bumming me out..

I appreciate the Royals staying relevant to the start of the Chiefs season. I'll up my pessimism for the rest of the season going forward which will greatly help the Royals chances.

The selflessness on this board is what keeps me coming back.

This really sucks. What a disastrous sequence of events that play was.

Who’s our new full-time first baseman? Salvy? Fermin full-time at catcher, and call up a backup catcher when we IL Pasquantino later today?

Losing Sal behind the plate sucks.

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Can Brandon belt get ready

We are better with Salvy at first base and Freddy at catcher

It's crazy to me that Brandon Belt got no looks after having a good season in 2023.

I was reading the Atlanta Braves, with all their injuries, worked out Yuri Gurriel. Gurriel is 40!

One play that should’ve been a double play with Witt and Massey playing up the middle just demolished us when erceg reached his hand for the ball. If not we probably win the game and that’s just the start of the butterfly effect with Vinny now being out and I haven’t heard anything about Ercegs hand. Just ****

Vinnie's 4th in AL RBIs

Its a loss but hopefully we're able to rally

It has been done. The Angels drafted Nolan Schanuel in the first round last year (11th overall) and he was in the majors after a grand total of 22 minor league games, none above AA. He contributed right away and has stuck in the majors ever since.

That's wrong.

Schanuel had a 161 wRC+ with a 21.1 BB% and an 11.8 K% in 76 plate appearances with Double-A Rocket City.

Jac is holding his own with a 20.9 K% and an 8.1 BB% and a 97 wRC with high Single-A Quad Cities. Decent numbers, but nothing that screams move him up three levels to the majors.

Schaunel has done well in that situation. He has elite plate skills, but the knock against him is whether he will impact the ball enough to be a true thumper at 1B.

That's odd he was pretty good last season. Idk how quick he could get ready...assume the royals won't do that

They actually talking of bringing Jac up?

If by they you mean some fans and talk show guys, sure. I haven't heard anyone in the organization mention it.

I highly doubt they do it but if they were to consider it, it would basically be saying that Jac right now can offer more than Freddy Fermin can offensively (there is no way you bring him up to not play most days). I don't think he can at the MLB level. He might hit a few homers but he'd K a metric **** ton and that could have some negative long term consequences on his psyche. At best you'd get a lefty version of Paul DeJong (not the relatively small sample size, close to .300 hitting one, the usual one) and although he has pop, what we need in trying to "replace" Vinnie is consistent and good contact.

Pratto is probably coming up

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Royals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Royals</a> have transferred 1B Chris Brito from High-A Quad Cities to AAA Omaha.</p>&mdash; Preston Farr (@royalsminors) <a href="https://twitter.com/royalsminors/status/1829568985316327836?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 30, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Anything on Erceg?

Oh. Right. Forgot Pratto is a 1B too.

Totally forgot about Pratto. Even with him...we'll have to pray for some kind of miracle.

Yeah, he's not what anyone would consider to be good so he's basically gonna be a body to give Salvy or Fermin a day off.