Detroit Tigers @ Kansas City Royals Game Thread (4/24)
 

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<td>Final</td> <td> 1 </td> <td> 2 </td><td> 3 </td><td> 4 </td><td> 5 </td><td> 6 </td><td> 7 </td><td> 8 </td><td> 9 </td><td> R </td><td> H </td><td> E </td></tr>
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<tr> <td>KC (9-7)</td> <td> 2 </td> <td> 1 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 2 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 1 </td><td> 0 </td><td> X </td><td> 6 </td><td> 8 </td><td> 1 </td></tr>
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Zack Greinke: 4-0, 2 CG, 0.000 ERA, 0.862 WHIP, 19 H, 36 K, 6 BB, 0HR

Alberto Callaspo hits his first MLB career home run

http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/sp/v/mlb/te.../80x60/det.gif

Loss, (1-2) Rick Porcello 6IP 5R 4ER 2BB 4K
Nate Robertson 1.1IP 1R 1ER 0BB 0K
Ryan Perry 0.2IP 0R 0ER 0BB 0K

VS.

http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/sp/v/mlb/te.../80x60/kan.gif

Win, (4-0) Zack Greinke 9IP 1R 0ER 1BB 10K

Starting Lineups

DET

1. Curtis Granderson, CF
2. Placido Polanco, 2B
3. Magglio Ordonez, RF
4. Miguel Cabrera, 1B
5. Carlos Guillen, DH
6. Gerald Laird, C
7. Brandon Inge, 3B
8. Josh Anderson, LF
9. Ramon Santiago, SS

KC

1. Coco Crisp, CF
2. David DeJesus, LF
3. Mark Teahen, 3B
4. Mike Jacobs, DH
5. Billy Butler, 1B
6. Alberto Callaspo, 2B
7. Mike Aviles, SS
8. Miguel Olivo, C
9. Mitch Maier, RF

Yes, I know this is pretty early, but I figure between trying to knock Detroit out of first, and the adventures of the ever-quotable Zack Greinke coming home to extend his hilariously long scoreless streak, there may be a lot of anticipation for this game.

Rick Porcello..................Mike Moustakas. Yeah, strong pick right there for the Royals at #2.

Mouther****er

Nice pitching match up. Go Tigers!

That's the spirit!

Lots of anticipation. Hope they get 35k out there tonight.

They should. A great Friday night and the co-ace of the club coming off of a complete game shutout? Shouldn't be a problem....

Let's hope that North has better Royals' Mojo than Dartgod. :(

At least the draft is now interesting since the Royals have actually started spending money, and a lot of it.

A few years ago it wouldn't have even been possible to have this debate and track the trajectory of the players in any meaningful way.

What? We're not comparing the careers of Chris Lubanski and Nick Markakis? **** you, David Glass. But thank you for changing some of your cheap ****ing ways.

I'm going tonight! I sure hope Greinke does well or else I'll think I'm a jinx.

I'll be at the game tonight and tomorrow. Go Royals!

Um, Moustakas remains highly regarded. Porcello fell all the way to 27, it's not like it was just the Royals that weren't crazy about him.

Had nothing to do with crazy and everything to do with the contract he was demanding.

He was widely regarded as the second best player in the draft.

Not saying KC was cheap in taking Moosetacos, though.

Moosetacos is still regarded by some as our best minor league prospect. He's just a lot younger than Porcello so it's taking him longer to get up to the big leagues.

I should have said...
"crazy about his agent/contract requirements."

:)