****Official Royals Vs. White Sox Gamethread 4/9****
 

Break out the brooms boys. 1st series, 1st chance at the sweep. Volquez on the mound, lets hope the Offense keeps hitting.

FIRST!!

In. Go Royals.

In for the win.

And **** the White Sox.

FOURTH!!

John Danks is a turd.

Let's get the sweep!!!!!

pwNED

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/pictu...pictureid=1523

A turd that has never lost to us for whatever reason. Let's hope our improved offense can change that.

It looks like there will be a gail force wind blowing in from left today.

Would be a great day to have a lefty on the hill to face a lineup with lots of RH power (too bad for Danny!).

Days like this always give the Royals the edge, IMO. Let the speed/baserunning/defense/high contact rate play up. Those things are not hurt by a strong wind in.

Jose Abreu? Takes away almost everything that makes him dangerous...

Isn't Abreu a switch hitter?

And let's see if Hos and Moose can take advantage. Morales as well...

Nope. RH only.

Morales will be hitting RH today.

Yeah, for a second I forgot Danks was a lefty. Maybe he'll get a shot after we run him in the fourth (NO JINX). :D

Amen, brotha.

With the way things have been going, watch the Royals score more runs against Danks in his start today than they have against him in all his other starts vs KC, combined.

(*OK, they're not going to score 30 runs today, but Danks has a career ERA under 2.50 vs KC over 100 IP. He has an ERA over 5.00 against every other team that has seen him for 100 innings or more)

They've talked during the broadcasts about how the Royals just have a confident feel and look to them, something they don't necessarily remember them having last year, particularly in the first part of the season. Today will be a great litmus as to if that is true.

Off to work. Enjoy the game, fellas. Let's curbstomp these shitheads.

I'll settle for 9 :)

In for sweep.

I think the wind is actually blowing out, no?

Wold love to head out to Anaheim starting off 3-0. Would not suck

It's only Game 3 of 162.
But a sweep today is going to give me, this board, and this town a very massive boner.

Baseball makes me happy. Winning baseball makes me happiest!

It would be a huge kick in the White Sox balls to be 3 games back in the standings already...possibly to both the Royals and Tigers. Obviously there's a TON of baseball to be played, but they finished 17 games behind Detroit and 16 games behind us last year, so they already face an uphill battle.

If they start 0-3, they would have to play .567 ball the rest of the way to win 90 games (which is what Detroit won last season). Only 4 teams in baseball played .567 ball or better last year.

I'm worried.

If the White Sox get off to too bad a start after making all these offseason moves, they might finally can that dunce they've got setting their lineups.

I hope you are right but it just seems that certain pitchers have the Royals number.

LaRoche was pissed last night.

http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/04...2502e5ddcc.jpg

Tell him to take it up with his teammates who keep beaning our players.

What's up with the awful camera angle today?

Let's roll two here.

Omar sux/

Ryan said it was because the wind is blowing the fountains all over the normal camera area.

Nice seeing this on game cast:

Due up for the Royals

Escobar .556
Moustakas .429
Cain .500

Ugh whatever is happening right now is a waste of time

I don't have sound, are they reviewing if he touched 2nd?

So even if he didn't trap it, did it not get it back to first before the runner did? It's a dp regardless

so drain some of the water...

What in the world is going on?

Ventura is a dumbass.

Maybe they're going to say the runner was deked by the umpire and therefore should be safe.

Can't wait till this series is over so I can watch in real time instead of replays due to being blacked out

He's arguing that infante caught it instead of trapping it.

Ventura ****ing his own pitcher.

No rush guys. Talk it out.

I know it's waaaay early, but look at the first 7 batters in our lineup.

.556
.429
.500
.300
.286
.625
.500

WHAT IN TEH FUCLK JUST hAPPENED?>??!!???`11

Weird camera angle today.

Gordon getting a scheduled rest? Wrist hurting?

The guy's hitting has kinda sucked since last summer.

Not sure.

Bullpen phone/communication issue.

Good at bat for Escobar.

Maybe to right, at first pitch 20 mph + winds from the west switching pretty quickly to out of the North and NW.

Temps are also going to be dropping.

Ok...weird though.

Esky is in beast mode.

Now if Cain gets HBP again...

Daily fantasy app tells me wind blowing straight out to right

I'm ok with that bunt considering Moose vs. Danks.

Scoring first has been big for us.

Cain helicoptering his cock all over the white sox.

This Lorenzo Cain guy seems like he could be a quality player for this ballclub.

does anyone have a link to stream it online?

That looked gone on game cast. How close was it?

CAIN CAN HAVE MY BABIES

Such a stud.

Would've been off the wall if not for super Cain.

What happened?

MOOSE!
DEFENSE!

14 pitches in 2 innings

Caught it three feet from the wall.

This.

5 pitch inning?

It was an amazing catch that I'm guessing maybe 5 CFs in the league make. Perfect path to the ball, still running full speed 10 feet from the wall, reaches toward the wall to make the catch, crashes into the wall a split second later.

Cain is gonna be an All-Star this year

Guessing Volquez is feeling pretty good about his decision to play in front of this defense after that inning.
Posted via Mobile Device

Moose web gem.

At this point, Cain alone for Greinke was a steal lol ... oh hi Esky