****OFFICIAL Royals at Blue Jays GDT 08/02****

[RealSNR]

Time to take a catheter and shove it up their Dickey!

Game start: 12:07 central

KC: Volquez (10-5, 3.21)
TOR: Dickey (5-10, 4.27)

Go Royals!


Royals
Escobar
Zobrist
Cain
Hosmer
Morales
Perez
Rios
Cuthbert
Infante

Blue Jays
Tulowitzki
Donaldson
Bautista
Encarnacion
Colabello
Martin
Pillar
Goins
Revere

[lewdog]

Originally Posted by eDave

Didn't Shilling say something like he hit like 134 batters in his lifetime and only 3 were not intentional?

Yes. It happens more than we know or admit.

[eDave]

Originally Posted by lewdog

Yes. It happens more than we know or admit.

Exactly. This ain't t-ball.

[tk13]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

So you think every time a player gets hit unintentionally (like with Hendriks/Moose in the knee), the other team deserves a beanball? Hilarious.

That's the way baseball works. Your team has done it too. There isn't a team in baseball that can claim innocence in that regard, and most honest pitchers would tell you as such.

[RollChiefsRoll]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Not after getting drilled by a 100 MPH FB in the 1st for no good reason. Not sure if you're aware, but guys don't like that too much.

So wait. Donaldson gets HBP in the first and that means every Royals pitcher only gets to throw him meatballs over the outside of the plate for the rest of the game?

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by tk13

I get why he was upset. But there's a difference between being upset and throwing a hissy fit at the plate and stopping the game, which he did. They knocked Moose out of the game today by hitting him last night. I personally think that's what led to it, but we can't be sure. Maybe they felt Donaldson showboated too much yesterday. Maybe they think the Jays were stealing signs. There are a few options.

In any scenario (signs/pimping/unintentional HBPs), we're still talking about the Royals hitting somebody for some contrived reason and therefore initiating the real conflict where there was none.

[KCUnited]

Beanball War

8.2.15

Never Forget

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by RollChiefsRoll

So wait. Donaldson gets HBP in the first and that means every Royals pitcher only get to throw him meatballs over the outside of the plate for the rest of the game?

Did not have a problem with Volquez or Madson's pitch to him later in the game and have said as much repeatedly now. It was the first intentional one that caused this.

[tk13]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

In any scenario, we're still talking about the Royals hitting somebody for some contrived reason and therefore initiating the real conflict where there was none.

That's not how it works. And you can certainly make the argument baseball shouldn't work that way... that's why some people hate it, it's so set in their ways and old school and all that.

But a lot of times if you hit someone and knock a player out of a game, one of your guys is going to wear one. That's how it's been played for a century.

They also could've felt he showboated yesterday, although I'm not sure he did. But there are so many things happening in the field we don't know about, it could be anything.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by tk13

That's the way baseball works. Your team has done it too. There isn't a team in baseball that can claim innocence in that regard, and most honest pitchers would tell you as such.

That isn't the way baseball works. It's the way Royals baseball works. If every team went around hitting people for unintentional HBPs, we'd be having brawls every other game.

[lewdog]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

In any scenario (signs/pimping/unintentional HBPs), we're still talking about the Royals hitting somebody for some contrived reason and therefore initiating the real conflict where there was none.

Moose being out isn't a conflict? Tell that to the royals players dumbass.

[RollChiefsRoll]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Did not have a problem with Volquez or Madson's pitch to him later in the game and have said as much repeatedly now. It was the first intentional one that caused this.

Well as long as you'll admit that Donaldson's tantrum and walk outside the batter's box after Madson buzzed him was just a mixture of roid rage and I-can't-believe-I-let-that-ball-go-by-in-the-2014-wild-card-game butthurtedness, then I'd say we've reached a détente.

[lewdog]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

That isn't the way baseball works. It's the way Royals baseball works.

Actually it is.....in America.

[Rams Fan]

Originally Posted by tk13

That's not how it works. And you can certainly make the argument baseball shouldn't work that way... that's why some people hate it, it's so set in their ways and old school and all that.

But a lot of times if you hit someone and knock a player out of a game, one of your guys is going to wear one. That's how it's been played for a century.

Aside from the Diamondbacks, please name one team that retaliates consistently after someone gets hit. Maybe the Pirates after McCutchen gets beaned?

[ChiefsCountry]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

That isn't the way baseball works. It's the way Royals baseball works.

[RollChiefsRoll]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

That isn't the way baseball works. It's the way Royals baseball works. If every team went around hitting people for unintentional HBPs, we'd be having brawls every other game.

You should watch more baseball.