Kansas City Royals vs Tamba Bay Rays 7/17
 

Brian Bannister 6-7 3.66 era

vs

James Shields 6-6 3.42 era

7:10pm cst

Royals 'new' lineup for tonight...


1.D. DeJesus lf
2.W. Bloomquist cf
3.B. Butler 1b
4.M. Teahen rf
5.M. Jacobs dh
6.M. Olivo c
7.A. Gordon 3b
8.A. Callaspo 2b
9.Y. Betancourt ss

The Yunefi Berroacourt experiment begins. Wheee.

Hey guys...

Going to the game. A friend has the tickets and the parking pass.
Unfortunately he won't have time to pick me up.

Any ideas of where I can park my car, near the stadium, so I can go into the lot with him without fear of being towed or ticketed?

Taco Bell across the street? i have parked at the back side of the holiday inn lot before and haven't had issues.

btw-royals live is showing the old geisors play, frank is 2b

Splittorff is talking during this, his voice is still ****ed up but he is sounding much better

Thanks Oz. Forgot about the TB.

I think I'm gonna leave my car at the McDonald's on Van Brunt while we're at the game.

Goodluck dude, have fun! im sure the car will be fine

Wow. Splitt will wound like the Splitt of old for, like, one second before reverting back to that strange voice.

atleast he sounds better, i miss split on the air

Isn't Gordon back?

Guillen on the bench, Jacobs at DH.....Hillman still is smoking crack!!!

Gordon at 3rd, Teahen in RF, Bloomy in CF

Yes. Starting at 3B, hitting 7th, according to the OP.

I parked at Taco Bell at the Big 12 Championship game and it got towed to Belton. Not a fun night.

Yuniesky can field soft grounders hit to him, and he can casually throw the ball to first with relative accuracy. A pleasant start.

Go Rays!

smallball4all

Base on balls. Let's not GIDP, plz.

I don't think much good is going to come out of Teahen hitting fourth.

RBI! w00t!

Put one in Pena's ear!

Bastard nearly GIDP'd....

First runs scored in 1st inning since June 30th.

****ing sad. :shake:

Jacobs .OBP is sitting at .296. huuuuurrrrrrgghh

And it will continue to go down....

Better than .295!

Well...4-pitch, leadoff walk....game will be tied soon

Nice hustle by Pena!

/accidental small ball

No pressure, Yuniesky.

yay plate discipline!

tie game

huuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrgghhh

What a weak ass stab at the ball...get your fat ass in front of it, billy!

gracious scorekeeper because that's definitely an error in my book..

On billy? No....close..but I wouldn't have ruled it an error....

God damn, Bannister....how many are you going to walk?

Amazing how when you walk 2-3 guys an inning they end up taking the lead....

Royals lead 3-2....nice hitting.....little luck....I'll take it..

Boom goes the dynomite....

The real MJ shows up

Jacobs with the 3-run pole squeaker......he actually hit a HR when we needed it


Royals lead 6-2

Jacobs still blows.

wrong

+1

Use two hands, goddamn you!

USE 2 HANDS YOU DUMB ****!!!

Alex Gordon is AWESOME at popups!!

And that would have gotten us out of the inning, if it wasn't for stonehands Alice Gordon.

Well the K shoul dhave been the inning......Gordon drops routine fly balls more than anyone I have ever seen

Bannister at roughly 83 pitches...should have been out of this inning with around 75.....Gordon just cost him an entire inning of work

Well....the error costs us 1 so far

Congrat****ingulations Alice, you just extended the ****ing inning because of your ****ing boner of the week play!

Damnit Betincourt :cuss:

So much for being a defensive wizard, eh Dayton you dumb shit....

Nice defense there, Olivo.

Jesus Christ.

And Gordon's error has cost us 2 so far....down to a 2 run lead

I love watching the worst defensive catcher in the last ten years start for the royals every night.

Wheeeeeeeeee

****...finally.

Fever..."The Royals must feel like they have given the Rays 2 runs..."


No Fever, they DID give them 2 runs

Wow, talk about Gordon's return not being publicized. I haven't heard anything about it. If he does have 3 k's and and error tonight, it's a good night for him.

So Gordon dropping a routine little league pop fly cost us 2 runs and about 20 pitches ......

..

What you bitchin about, David? That strike 2 call was actually a strike.

And the little whiny bitch GIDP'ed. I'll be one happy guy when he either gets cut/released/traded.

He is 2-3 with 2 fine catches in the OF and 2 runs scored.....I can't bitch about that

If the Rays come back and win, this loss sits squarely on Gordon right now

Too bad he can't consistently do it that often, otherwise, we'd have a hell of a leadoff batter. They always keep pimping him, talking about him wanting to raise is OBP, and all that shit, but it's always have been in the same.

Dive for it!

JFC.......

Frank said the same thing

DDJ sucks, good lord. Nice effort. Those were the balls I used to love to dive for growing up.

Bannister at 104 pitches.....how long does Hillman let him struggle?

Finally.

AC almost threw that one away...but good play

He'll probably keep him throwing until his ****ing arm falls off.

110 and counting....

and a 2-out walk.......Bannister has struggled badly tonight

Yeah, he's done. Pull him. No sense to try to get one measly out, and possibly injure him at the same time.

Terrible manager. :shake: