*** Official Kansas City Royals @ Houston Astros ALDS Game 4 Thread ***

[alnorth]

Final	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
KC	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	5	2	9	8	0
HOU	0	1	1	0	1	0	3	0	0	6	9	1

Series Tied, 2-2



Yordano Ventura 5IP 3R 3ER 3BB 8K 2HR
Kelvin Herrera 1IP 1R 1ER 2BB 3K
Win Ryan Madson 1IP 2R 2ER 0BB 2K 2HR
Save Wade Davis 2IP 0R 0ER 0BB 3K

VS.



Lance McCullers 6⅓IP 2R 2ER 2BB 7K 1HR
Hold Will Harris ⅔IP 4R 3ER 0BB 1K
Blown Save; Loss Tony Sipp ⅓IP 1R 0ER 0BB 1K
Luke Gregerson ⅔IP 0R 0ER 2BB 1K
Josh Fields 1IP 2R 2ER 1BB 2K 1HR

Home Runs

KC

Salvador Perez - Top 2nd 2-run homer to right
Eric Hosmer - Top 9th 2-run homer to center

HOU

Carlos Gomez - Bottom 2nd solo shot blasted to left
Carlos Correa - Bottom 3rd solo shot to center
Carlos Correa - Bottom 7th 2-run homer to left
Colby Rasmus - Bottom 7th solo shot off the right foul pole

Other Playoff Games

This is an elimination game for us, so nothing else matters

Starting Lineups

KC

1. Alcides Escobar, SS
2. Ben Zobrist, 2B
3. Lorenzo Cain, CF
4. Eric Hosmer, 1B
5. Kendrys Morales, DH
5. Jarrod Dyson, pr/DH
6. Mike Moustakas, 3B
7. Salvador Perez, C
7. Terrance Gore, pr
7. Drew Butera, C
8. Alex Gordon, LF
9. Alex Rios, RF
9. Paulo Orlando, pr/RF

HOU

1. Jose Altuve, 2B
2. George Springer, RF
3. Carlos Correa, SS
4. Colby Rasmus, LF
5. Evan Gattis, DH
5. Jake Marisnick, pr/DH
5. Preston Tucker, ph/DH
6. Carlos Gomez, CF
7. Luis Valbuena, 3B
8. Chris Carter, 1B
8. Marwin Gonzalez, 1B
9. Jason Castro, C
9. Jed Lowrie, ph
9. Hank Conger, C

[suzzer99]

Big party at my house Wednesday. Let's get weird.

— Sluggerrr (@Sluggerrr) October 12, 2015

[Dartgod]

Originally Posted by Mr. Flopnuts

This should be ****ing immortalized. It is this board to a T. Every time a KC sports team plays.

I'll own mine. It was over. O. V. E. R.

I'm still in shock that we pulled that off. I'll never doubt this group of guys again.

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by Mr. Flopnuts

This should be ****ing immortalized. It is this board to a T. Every time a KC sports team plays.

Once again though, it goes far beyond normal the regular "oh noes!".... I'm still trying to process HTF that happened.

-- They were dead at the plate. I would have predicted a WC comeback before what happened yesterday.

-- The worst possible thing happened the previous inning with Rios, who had struck out twice on 6 total pitches. He should have been the final out, but had to lead off again. So, he singles and walks in the same inning.

-- Had I guessed how the Royals could have possible comeback, I would have guessed home runs + craziness... maybe a walk or two, a couple errors, stolen bases... maybe a run or two in both remaining innings. Not so much tripling their number of hits in one inning (or whatever it was) with the merry-go-round of players with 5 straight hits... all with Rios leading off, Butera walking, and some craziness mixed in with the error.

[WilliamTheIrish]

Originally Posted by KChiefs1

KC Star Headline:

That's cool. But there's a different headline on the paper version in KC.

From Gloom

To BOOM!!

[Simply Red]

Originally Posted by suzzer99

Big party at my house Wednesday. Let's get weird.

— Sluggerrr (@Sluggerrr) October 12, 2015

[ChiTown]

Originally Posted by C3HIEF3S

Great 8th from Davis. Now bring in Franklin Morales for the save!

Still my favorite quote from yesterdays thread. This little bauble of funniness inside a thread of madness. Just money

Of course C3HIEF3S is always one of the better posters in Royals threads, but still, the timing of that post made me in laughter.

[WilliamTheIrish]

Originally Posted by petegz28

A few of us said we wouldn't do shit in the playoffs. Sadly that's one thing I wish I was not right about but unfortunately some of us saw this coming.

We've looked like shit for over a month and have been hot stink at scoring RISP for over 2 months..


Our starting pitching ironically wasn't too bad ...
You have to score more than 2 ****ing runs a game. This is the 3rd game out of 4 that we've only scored 2 runs.

Everyone is swinging for the fences and probably rightly so since we can't seem to score any other way.

Ned went into "I don't give a shit" mode in early September and imo, it cost us. We sat back, feeling all big and fat like we were entitled to something. Now we are going home after round 1 of the playoffs.

What a dipshit. Not because you were discouraged by what seemed to be probable outcome of the game.

It's dipshittery because you took th long awaited chance to blame this game on the "entitlement" of the team, on the "I don't give a shit attitude" of the manager,

Pete, you should get up in the morning and do the exact opposite of whatever the little hamster on the wheel that powers your brain tells you what to do.

Try it.

[petegz28]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

What a dipshit. Not because you were discouraged by what seemed to be probable outcome of the game.

It's dipshittery because you took th long awaited chance to blame this game on the "entitlement" of the team, on the "I don't give a shit attitude" of the manager,

Pete, you should get up in the morning and do the exact opposite of whatever the little hamster on the wheel that powers your brain tells you what to do.

Try it.

Captain Hindsight. Next you'll tell us all how you knew we would win. You have a very unhealthy and disturbing obsession with me. Seek help.

[Hootie]

Anyone who is bashing participants in the GDT for calling it game over after the Astros teed off on Madson need to get a grip ... Find me one post of optimism about the series after the end of the 7th inning.

Hell, I was as optimistic as anyone and even I had tipped my cap to the Astros after that.

[ChiTown]

Originally Posted by Hootie 2.0

Anyone who is bashing participants in the GDT for calling it game over after the Astros teed off on Madson need to get a grip ... Find me one post of optimism about the series after the end of the 7th inning.

Hell, I was as optimistic as anyone and even I had tipped my cap to the Astros after that.

Dude, I committed Harakiri after Correa's shot in the 6th. I bled out and was brought back to life in the 8th inning.

[Three7s]

Originally Posted by Hootie 2.0

Anyone who is bashing participants in the GDT for calling it game over after the Astros teed off on Madson need to get a grip ... Find me one post of optimism about the series after the end of the 7th inning.

Hell, I was as optimistic as anyone and even I had tipped my cap to the Astros after that.

And they were giving you flack for it, as if they weren't thinking the same. WE ALL DID!

[Bearcat]

Right, hindsight, because people haven't been calling out that crap for a month.

It's not just here though, I've talked with a few people who think "it's just not in the cards this year".... well, baseball doesn't give a shit about your inability to accept randomness and the fact that shit doesn't follow the narrative that you've created to string together separate events. And most teams don't sweep their side of the playoff bracket, so a little adversity isn't anything to cry about.

[DeezNutz]

Ned does incredibly stupid ****ing things at incredibly inopportune times; just like he did yesterday by hanging Madson out to ****ing dry.

And then everything works out perfectly. It's truly staggering.

[petegz28]

Originally Posted by Dartgod

I'll own mine. It was over. O. V. E. R.

I'm still in shock that we pulled that off. I'll never doubt this group of guys again.

I know of one person who said "it ain't over 'til it's over" and it's an Astros fan who sits next to me at work.

We all said it was over and rightly so. Down 4 with 6 outs to go and you've had a whopping 2 or 3 hits through 7 innings?

I mean this coming back from 4 runs down in the 8th inning of a post season game happens so much that we are the first team in history to do it twice.

Some on here want to play this game of they weren't calling it over or whatever but I think we all know that's BS.

[Hootie]

The Royals are certainly the bizarro Chiefs in the postseason