*Official White Sox vs KC Royals 4/6-Sale/Shields*
 

Starting Pitchers
Chicago: Sale (1-0, 3.68 ERA)
Kansas City: Shields (0-0, 4.26 ERA)

In for the pitcher's duel!

I personally love great pitching games. I'd rather see a low scoring 1-0 game over a 10-9 game.

Hoping for some run support for Shields today.

Hoping to see Valencia at 3b today.

SHIELDSY!

This.

Simplicity posted this but not sure where he found it. Danny in the lineup today.

Infante-Valencia-Hosmer-Butler-Gordon-Perez-Maxwell-Cain-Escobar

Take a long break, Moose.

In for the win.

I'd rather see a 10-0 Royals win. :)

But wait, you're not Captain Obvious???

In for no Mouse in the lineup.

I'll be at the game today. Can't wait.

If he plays Moose today vs Sale, he should be suspended from managing the rest of the month.

Looks to be another nice day out at the ballpark. Would be nice if the sun could break through the clouds though.

In for the sweep!

Has the parking spot announced the time and temp yet?

Easy to spot, easy to park

Lewdog's record in Royals game threads: 7-5.

Should be a tough battle today, let's get the sweep!

O Valencia! Lineup: Infante 4, Valencia 5, Hosmer 3, Butler DH, Gordon 7, Perez 2, Maxwell 9, Cain 8, Escobar 6, Shields 1.

Royals need to wake up BAT!!!

I might've sat Hosmer and played Butler at 1B, with Sal at DH. Lefties cannot hit Sale, period.

No Moose!!!!

true...but this is Ned Yost we're talking about here...which means whatever you think should happen in a lineup, Ned will probably do the opposite.

Let's sweep them!!!

Lewdog in for the win

I agree with PB. Yup, I said agree.

LMAO

Game time!

Get it on!

I'm going to disagree with all of you and say that you don't sit the best hitter on the team (forget the corresponding drop off defensively). Lineup was actually done 100% correctly today.

This ought to be a good one. Hope we can pull off the sweep!

1 pitch, 1 out.

Shields on pace for a 27-pitch perfect game!

1 on, 1 out.

Good play by Valencia. That looked like a ticky hop.

Rex in rare form.

Anyone got a feed?

He gone!

Good inning for Shields.

Let's get to Sale early.

Nice start for Shields.

Infante leading off today, has he had much experience hitting leadoff? Not very familiar with him, I must admit.

Thanks man.

The field looks great, green with checkers pattern.

I didn't like how it was designed the year we had the All Star game.

I don't know if anyone else pays attention to that.

It does look very nice. I always thought it would be cool to be part of a major league grounds crew.

Couple of BS stirke calls.

Sale threw 3 straight pitches off the plate and got two of them called strikes.

Looks great.

Man, ain't nobody in the seats today.

Sale dealing

Rotten luck for Hosmer there. He pounded that shit.

Great pitchers get those, but agreed.

Hey fans...show the **** up!!!

How do they get the grass to look like that?

Not really. However if dude is going to get the calls he got against Infante then it will be a long day. Hopefully either the Ump gets his shit together or Shields gets the same calls.

Dude, they weren't even close. 1 was maybe close to being close. 1 was bad enough a blind man would have known it wasn't a strike.

They should swap Butler and Perez in the batting order.

DAMN do I love those powder blues. Thinking I might grab one with Perez's name on it.

I said I agreed. But great pitchers get bs strikes alot

What the hell is Rex yapping about?

I know, I was just elaborating

Where was that?

Apparently the zone has shrunk again....

It will probably come to that if Belly can't knock runs in. Although he did have 2 RBIs yesterday.

HBP

Pitch 5 was off the plate

Another good inning for Shields

According to you Hawk

Butler needs to get that "double gap power" back he had 4-5 years ago.

According to the pitch tracker.

Fat Belly

It was off the plate but Sale was never on the plate and was getting calls. The strike zone in and of itself has been Chicago friendly the entire series. Though the Ump's have made up for it a couple times with some BS check swing calls on the Sox

He gone

Yea because honestly the homer power doesn't seem to be there but hitting doubles is great in a park as big as the K. I'd love if he could just knock doubles all day.

Adam Dunn with none of the power.

Strike out number 9 for the season for Billy