Kansas City Royals @ Boston Red Sox game thread (5/27)

[alnorth]

Final	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
KC (20-28)	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	4	4	0
BOS (27-22)	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	3	9	0

Daisuke Matsuzaka gives up 8 walks for the 2nd time in his career, since May 7th, 2008



Win, (4-3) Brian Bannister 6IP 3R 3ER 0BB 4K 1HR
Hold, (2) Robinson Tejeda 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 0K
Hold, (3) Blake Wood 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 0K
Save, (12) Joakim Soria 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 0K

VS.



Loss, (3-2) Daisuke Matsuzaka 4.2IP 3R 3ER 8BB 1K
Joe Nelson 1.1IP 1R 1ER 0BB 0K
Manny Delcarmen 2IP 0R 0ER 0BB 2K
Ramon Ramirez 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 0K

Home Runs

KC

none

BOS

Bill Hall, (4) - Bottom 5th solo shot to left

Royals Prospects Today

AAA: Alex Gordon, (LF) 1/3, 1BB (1 double)
AAA: Kila Ka'aihue, (1B) 1/3, 1BB, 2K
AA: Mike Montgomery, (SP) 3IP 3R 3ER 0BB 3K 1HR
AA: Mike Moustakas, (3B) 0/1, 1K
Adv. A: no game today

Starting Lineups

KC

1. Scott Podsednik, LF
2. Mike Aviles, SS
3. David DeJesus, RF
4. Billy Butler, 1B
5. Jose Guillen, DH
6. Alberto Callaspo, 3B
7. Mitch Maier, CF
8. Jason Kendall, C
9. Chris Getz, 2B

BOS

1. Marco Scutaro, SS
2. Dustin Pedroia, 2B
3. David Ortiz, DH
4. Kevin Youkilis, 1B
5. J.D. Drew, RF
6. Adrian Beltre, 3B
7. Jeremy Hermida, LF
8. Jason Varitek, C
9. Bill Hall, CF
9. Victor Martinez, ph

[petegz28]

Originally Posted by DeezNutz

"We were going to pull him [Bannister] around the 100 pitch count."

"I just told them to load 'em up again. I felt great about our ABs." --in response to if there was panic after missed opportunity early.

What's this feeling? The beginning of man crush on the new Royals manager???

I had thought for sure that we blew our chance to win when we didn't score 1 run with bases loaded and 0 outs.

[Sure-Oz]

Team definetly is playing better under Yost. I hope Yost learned from Milwaukee. That said he has had success with young players with talent.

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by Sure-Oz

Team definetly is playing better under Yost. I hope Yost learned from Milwaukee. That said he has had success with young players with talent.

Team played real good for Buddy Bell too thru like 20 games. Then...not so much.

[Sure-Oz]

Originally Posted by BWillie007

Team played real good for Buddy Bell too thru like 20 games. Then...not so much.

I like Yosts track record over that old fart buddy bells. Yost has a swagger about him that the last few managers haven't. Who knows where it will go, but i like what ive seen so far.

[jbwm89]

Yost seems consistent with his decisions. trey was bunt when your down 6 one day, swing away in a tie game the next, small ball then not. and the bullpen management has improved no question

[alnorth]

Originally Posted by BWillie007

Team played real good for Buddy Bell too thru like 20 games. Then...not so much.

I dont expect this team to win, period. I don't expect much at all from a manager of the Kansas City Royals. Trey failed to meet even my very low expectations, while Yost is clearing the hurdle easily.

Yost realizes he is in the American League and doesn't like "small-ball" (that is HUGE, we have suffered through an insane parade of managers who want to play for one run), and he has at least some vague idea that making your pitchers throw too many pitches is bad (Meche asked him for one more inning when he already threw a crazy number of pitches in a good start some game back I don't remember, Yost immediately said no).

This team could lose 103 games this season and I'd already be perfectly fine with giving him a 3 or 4-year contract at the end of the year.