****Royals@Tigers Official GDT 8/4/15****
 

Kansas City Royals (62-42) VS Detroit Tigers (51-54)

Scheduled starting pitchers: LHP Danny Duffy (4-5, 4.28 ERA) vs. RHP Justin Verlander (1-3, 4.86 ERA).

First pitch 6:08 central time

It's going be motor city mayhem with cat scratch fever beat the Tigers


Go Royals

Man, didn't realize how downhill Verlander has gotten.

Back on track tonight against the Kittens.

Only 5 more years and $134 million left on that contract though.

this august series just doesn't seem to have the excitement it would have a year ago

bend over detroit

:LOL: - F Detroit

Verlander has been very good over his last two starts... 15 IP and just 2 ER. Apparently, he has started paying attention to scouting reports now and incorporating them into things rather than just going out and being himself.

Will be interesting to watch him tonight.

@McCulloughStar: Thug Cry Lineup: Escobar 6, Zobrist 7, Cain 8, Hosmer 3, Morales DH, Moustakas 5, Perez 2, Rios 9, Infante 4, Duffy 1. #royals

Hope Cain can keep his temper in check, we need some W's.

Yost is getting closer to the right lineup.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Dave Dombrowski replaced as <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Tigers?src=hash">#Tigers</a> GM. Al Avila is his replacement.</p>&mdash; Jon Morosi (@jonmorosi) <a href="https://twitter.com/jonmorosi/status/628658996187152384">August 4, 2015</a></blockquote>
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Yes it will. I'll be there in the cheap seats. Good luck & go Tigers. I'm still convinced that the Tigers at some point will start playing well.

Tigers have released GM Dave Dombrowski from his contract. Oh noes. This is not good.:doh!:

Panic move the Tigers will eventually regret, IMO.

Dombrowski is really good.

Yost needs to tear into them after the display in Toronto. We are back to only 20 games over 500 with a paltry 8.5 game lead in the division. Our lead for home field advantage is also now only 3.5 games.

Ned needs to do moar yelling.

I bought tickets several months ago to the home game against Detroit next Monday. I was expecting it to be a tight divisional race against them. At least it is now projected to be Cueto's first home start.

I'm 5-6 hours away round trip so I try to plan those mid week trips carefully as it will make for a long Tuesday.

Wow Ned actually leaving Zobrist in the 2 hole. I like this Ned

Except for building a bullpen. It's puzzling how he can be so good at everything else and so bad at that.

It is weird. Hire a guy for that. yeesh.

He'll be GM again. For more money and out of Detroit. Win/win.

MLB Network is speculating that Dombrowski is the one who wanted out.

Zobrist takes Moose's spot at the 2. Moose slides to 6.

Interdasting.

Could that mean he thinks the Tigers will completely collapse in the last 2 months?

He's been better since he started reading the scouting reports.

Better but not perfect.

How much stock do you put into the scouting report thing? To me, that's the catcher's job. I don't want my pitcher thinking about scouting reports when he's on the mound. I want him focused on executing whatever pitch the catcher calls.

Besides, it's a lot more efficient to make sure 2 catchers know the scouting reports than 12 pitchers.

I place some in it.

Some guys have such overpowering stuff that they can just do what they do and make the hitters adjust to them (Jose Fernandez is a great example of this, so is Syndergaard).

Once you lose some edge on that stuff, and your fastball isn't a plus-plus pitch any more, now you need to know where to locate it against guys to get same results.

Or upset at being sellers or the return.

I'm all set for another Royals game national embarrassment on Fox Sports Midwest.

Well their GM was on the last year of his deal anyway. Maybe he wants to take a vacation and miss the next 2 months of losing baseball and answering doomed questions.

Verlander was 19 - 7 vs the Royals :grr:

Let's go Tigers!!:D

J/k

Good luck fellas. You might need it?

In for the ass kicking. First game since last Thursday I've gotten to see.

Just made the 2 hour drive back to college just in time for first pitch. Lets do this.

Somebody ban this douche from the Royal's threads.

I'm blacked out for some reason. WTF?

Damn.



Come on Duffy get some strike outs

Take your pants off. Never hurts

Obviously you're in the Kansas City media market.

Oh shit, Duffy is pitching to contact. Wasn't one of the BFIBB saying that's not the right way he should be doing it?

He's in Arizona

Good start Duffman

Would rather have Orlando in RF every game.

Nice first inning for Duffy. He seems to be overthrowing his fastball though.

No, that was one of our own douche bags.

He's in Omaha

I'm joking bro

I know that. Lame joke.

My bad.

Man, Verlander sure is scared Hos may be running

Closed browser, re-opened. Works.

Pants still on.

"A little bit too aggressive"

No shit, Sal

Salvy!

that was a very good ab, sal

Nice

**** yeah!!

I am dissapoint

Try now. Mine did the same thing, it's working now.

:(

Yea, just got it working too. That's never happened before. Weird.

that was a great pitch....

Whoa, did you get your eyes fixed? You can actually admit things like that?

I was sitting on hold with MLB.TV waiting to complain......and then it started working!

I didn't realize how bad the bottom 3 were stinking it up. Can't wait for Gordon to get back.

twins down 1-0

between rios and infante i think i bench rios when gordon gets back

so, is donaldson roiding? he has another jack tonight

Maybe he will split a bat and we'll see the cork hanging out.

Wuz up Sammy?

If its Donaldson's bat it will be a tampon in it instead of a cork.

Duffy looking great.

The Duffman!

Nice job Danny Duffy

Without a doubt. You don't just hit 50% more homeruns than the year before by "working hard."

didn't bautista do similar once he got in toronto?

@RoyalsNation: Where do we vote on Gordon/Zobrist batting 1-2 upon #A1's return?

I wouldn't be surprised if quite a few on that team were juicing. In theory, Tulo's power numbers should drop now that he is out of Colorado, so if they increase, hmm.

Was it 2012 when the Royals had a closed-door meeting about fraternizing on the basepaths?

Lorenzo Cain?