***** The Official Royals vs Padres game day thread*****
 

Folks are slacking. Big slick weekend

4 up, 3 down. Arraez got a cheap single off Wacha's ankle.

Today, tomorrow, Sunday? I'm only on attendance tonight...

Bob just missed a dong

Nice

Strike 'em out, throw 'em out DP very nice!

I may shoot myself if I have to hear that Miller Lite commercial with the guy yelling one more time on the Bally sports app.

I really liked the first one they did with JJ Watt. This one sucks.

Another lead-off double this inning, now get him across the plate please.

Guess not. :shake:

Wtf, looked like Hampson running the bases

Exactly, he wasn't paying much attention.

I'm right along the right field line and yelled at numbnuts on his way back out "come on you got to give Bobby a chance there" and he pounded his fist in his glove. You're welcome.

I hope my favorite baseball team can pull their heads out of their asses and can score some points.
Let’s Freakin’ Go!!!

Frazier playing gold glove second

Wish we could have gotten Arraez

Looks like Wacha ran out of gas.

Offense has got to show up

Bobby is so ****ing good. Lucky to watch this dude

Like watching Pat at work out there sometimes

Nice DP by BWJ to get out of the inning, they should never have sent the guy at third.

Edit: they just said Tatis went on his own. Thanks!

The Mighty Bobbys at Bat

2-1 Rs thanks to BWJ's single.

Has anybody mentioned BWJ is good at baseball?

Big Slick crew rally

Vinnie with the ground rule double saved getting another run plated. 2-2 Rs

Them boys are bad.

What a fun team to watch again

We have Bob and Pat for a decade more. Glorious time in KC sports history

Sf fly by Nellie makes it 3-2 Rs.

Just mj stuff there

Man MJ needs to a trip to Omaha in the worst way.

Mj gonna mj

I've seen more than enough. His replacement can't do worse than him.

Send him down, he is just lost. HR the other night notwithstanding.

Can the bullpen hold up tonight?

My fingers are crossed.

Filthy strike to Machado for the punchout.

Schreiber in for Zerpa.

And he gets out of the inning.

Let's get some more runs, don't really feel like 3 is going to be enough.

Imagine if this team had a bullpen

Well, boys …

MacArthur in for Schreiber after 3 straight singles.

JFC this bullpen

Gotta trade for some bullpen help or this season will not end well.

Imagine if they also had an OF that hit over a collective.200.

Right down the middle.

No

Can someone please put the wheels back on our bus?

Pen is trash rn

Yeah that would also rule. But instead, our reality is MJ Scrublendez and chumps like Schreiber and McArthur

We need some bullpen arms that can punch guys out.

If this team had locain, bo Jackson, danny tartabull and hdh they would be really good

Oh my. That’s unfortunate

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7 straight singles, and still no outs. :shake:

This is a clinic on just making contact. Starting with Arraez who is a complete pain in the neck. I know contact guys don't grow on trees but it's amazing more teams don't try to find and develop guys who have that skill. Just horrible to play against. I can't imagine what his average would be hitting in the K everyday.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Royals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Royals</a> relievers have a collective 17.8% strikeout rate. Dead last in the majors. It’s a problem.</p>&mdash; Craig Brown (@CraigBrown_KC) <a href="https://twitter.com/CraigBrown_KC/status/1796729616616309087?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Unfortunately I think this is a preview of things to come in the next few weeks as we play some of the better teams in MLB.

Royals don't have power arm in the pen. That's the biggest problem. Got the guys who are contact and let the defense do their thing types. Really need Hernandez to get right

McArthur.has turned into the guy we expected him to be at the beginning of the year.

Enough already.

I think you're right.

Why didn’t the Rs trade for Arrez? That may have helped. Damn guys…..

Just your average 9-run 8th

We got this.

Damn this bullpen is shit

The thing about Hernandez is that outside of his 2022 season he's just been ass. Once he showed that he isn't a SP they moved him to the pen last year and he was pretty much ass there too.

Pitched in 67 games and all but 4 were from the pen. He had a 5.27 ERA 1.329 WHIP. He was able to get some strikeouts and had 9.9/SO9.

I just don't see him doing much of anything.

Walter Pennington needs to be the next guy up. He's dominating AAA. He's pitched 37 innings with a 1.93 ERA, a 0.86 WHIP, only 12 walks, and the most impressive thing about it is he has 60 strikeouts in only 37 innings pitched. He has a fastball that he can get up to 95-96. He's not on the 40 man, but he absolutely should be up in the majors.

NICK LOFTIN FOR CLOSER

Nick Loftin the new cyborg

I think there was a report that we were trying to.

Dropped 5 of 6.

Back to being the Raytown Royuls.

It's now a save situation. Wasn't expecting that.

Padres Skip knows when to pull a struggling turd.

Lol this would be one of the most epic 9th innings in Royals history

LMAO Holy crap. That got me off the couch. Almost an all timer home run.

12 feet from legendary

Damn they almost had the comeback

Dammit thought it was gone by the way he posed.

That's gotta be a HR at 90% of stadiums

missed it by that much......

not even weird Al could have helped......

get 'em tomorrow. and bench the general. what a shit show.....

it's okay. im okay.

Why not try Daniel Lynch in the bullpen?