Chicago White Sox @ Kansas City Royals Game Thread (5/4)

[alnorth]

Final	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
CWS (12-13)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	1
KC (15-11)	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	X	3	10	0

Zack Greinke throws the 6th complete game, and the 2nd shutout of his MLB career. (3CG, 2SHO this season)

Zack Greinke is the 3rd pitcher in MLB history to have an ERA under 0.50 after 6 starts



Loss, (2-2) Bartolo Colon 5IP 3R 2ER 3BB 7K
Clayton Richard 3IP 0R 0ER 1BB 1K

VS.



Win, (6-0) Zack Greinke 9IP 0R 0ER 0BB 10K

Starting Lineups

CWS

1. Chris Getz, 2B
2. Jayson Nix, 3B/RF
3. Carlos Quentin, LF
4. Jim Thome, DH
5. Paul Konerko, 1B
6. A.J. Pierzynsky, C
7. Alexei Ramirez, SS
8. Scott Podsednik, RF/CF
9. Brent Lillibridge, CF
9. Wilson Betemit, ph/3B

KC

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

[58-4ever]

Originally Posted by Hootie

when was the last time MLB saw someone pitching this good?

Hey, Cliff Lee was awesome last year for that huge stretch...but he wasn't nearly this feisty.

Greinke's stuff is truly nasty. I thought his best pitch of the game was the 95 MPH fastball right in Alexei's face...that really set the tone.

There haven't been many runs like this. A few Maddux runs in the 90's, Dontrelle's great run a few years back, and Sabbathia last year for the Brewers at the end of the year. Maybe not as dominant though.

[Hootie]

Originally Posted by alnorth

quote from a White Sox fan

I forced my 12 year old brother to watch the game with me (I'm transitioning between apartments this week)...I told him before the 9th inning..."Ok Jake, we either get another inning of Greinke, or we get the Mexicutioner!...either way, it's pure win for us!"

He was pretty pumped...Greinke was electric.

[Saul Good]

Originally Posted by Hootie

when was the last time MLB saw someone pitching this good?

Hey, Cliff Lee was awesome last year for that huge stretch...but he wasn't nearly this feisty.

Greinke's stuff is truly nasty. I thought his best pitch of the game was the 95 MPH fastball right in Alexei's face...that really set the tone.

You can count on Greinke to buzz the tower at least once a game...usually twice against the Sox. Pitchers need to do that every now and then. It put's a little doubt in the back of a hitter's mind.

[Hootie]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

He frapping blew Thome away on that AB.

I called it, too...right to my brother...said here comes a fastball right down the middle...

Thome could have guessed right and he's still not hitting that pitch.

It's awesome...Greinke is one of few that, if he's on, he's impossible to hit. Tonight...he was impossible.

[alnorth]

Quote from a White Sox fan before the game started

Oh damn it, not Greinke!! Anybody but him! No! Damn it damn it damn it damn it damn it damn it damn it damn it damn it damn it!

[Saul Good]

500 posts on a Royals thread. Gotta love it.

[WilliamTheIrish]

Originally Posted by ChiefaRoo

The fan base in KC has been decimated. I'd imagine there are Royals fans who will never get over the mental anguish from seeing the great Royals teams of the late 70's to the '85 season Championship Team through the laughingstock joke teams put on the field in the 90's through early 2000's.

Hell, when they traded away Johnny D. I washed my hands of the Royals because they truly had become the definition of a loser team with a slack ass loser management structure.

If they continue to play ball, pay their players and field a real team I'll come back to Royals stadium for the first time in over ten years.

I mean really, how can anyone go from watching George Brett in his prime, jacking three homers in the ALCS against Toronto and then watch more than a decade of shite!? I think they tried to kill the MLB market in KC and from reading some of the other threads some of you guys have bought into the "continuous rebuild" mentality which will never do anything but guarantee the end of a once proud franchise.

Go play poker, putz.

And George hit three HR against the Yankees in 78. His great game against Toronto was game 3 where he homered twice, doubled, singled and threw Damaso Garcia out at the plate on the single greatest play ever made in Royals stadium.

[Chiefless]

Originally Posted by Hootie

when was the last time MLB saw someone pitching this good?

Hey, Cliff Lee was awesome last year for that huge stretch...but he wasn't nearly this feisty.

Greinke's stuff is truly nasty. I thought his best pitch of the game was the 95 MPH fastball right in Alexei's face...that really set the tone.

When was this?

[Nightfyre]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

Two Roylas player some to mind that really could dominate in this manner. Busby and Leo.

Leo was a workhorse who struggled in April, but always foud his groove in mid May. He was 20-12 with 21 complete games in 77 and 21-17 with 20 CG's in 78.

Buzz in 74 was 22-18 for a club that won 83 games with 20 CG's.

So, yes, we've had pitchers likem this before. You just have to search for them.

Thats a completely different era though.

[Hootie]

Originally Posted by 58-4ever

There haven't been many runs like this. A few Maddux runs in the 90's, Dontrelle's great run a few years back, and Sabbathia last year for the Brewers at the end of the year. Maybe not as dominant though.

Oh, yeah...Sabathia.

I think the Brewers won like 13 straight games with him on the mound or something...

He was pretty filthy..

(However, Greinke is an AL pitcher...so big difference to dominate the AL opposed to the NL...Sabathia wasn't doing so hot in the AL-C before the trade)

[KcMizzou]

I've always been one of those casual Royals fans that hope they win... catch a couple games... and use it as a diversion between college basketball and NFL football.

This season, I've watched probably 2/3rds of the games, and I'll plan my day around a Greinke start.

The best thing about baseball, IMO, is when you have a decent team... there's a game you wanna see damn near every day.

In '85 I was 11. This is new to me... but I've gotta say, I like it.

[Hootie]

Originally Posted by Chiefless

When was this?

3rd inning I believe...

Ramirez laid in the dirt for about 5 seconds...I don't think he wanted to get up and see the next pitch...

And he guessed fastball for the rest of the game...so Greinke threw him a slider every time and Ramirez was about 5 seconds early and looked ridiculous all game.

[Saul Good]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

Go play poker, putz.

And George hit three HR against the Yankees in 78. His great game against Toronto was game 3 where he homered twice, doubled, singled and threw Damaso Garcia out at the plate on the single greatest play ever made in Royals stadium.

He didn't say 3 homers in a game. He said in the series.

[58-4ever]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

You can count on Greinke to buzz the tower at least once a game...usually twice against the Sox. Pitchers need to do that every now and then. It put's a little doubt in the back of a hitter's mind.

the way the ball explodes out of his hand after a very fluid wind-up reminds me of Pedro in his prime.

[Hootie]

Originally Posted by KcMizzou

I've always been one of those casual Royals fans that hope they win... catch a couple games... and use it as a diversion between college basketball and NFL football.

This season, I've watched probably 2/3rds of the games, and I'll plan my day around a Greinke start.

The best thing about baseball, IMO, is when you have a decent team... there's a game you wanna see damn near every day.

In '85 I was 11. This is new to me... but I've gotta say, I like it.

I'm fairly lucky...I don't live in the area...so other than Sox games, I get to watch every game because if I miss it, I can hit the replay on MLB.TV...

(I guess technically you could hit the replay, too...since the games aren't blacked out after they are finished playing)