Detroit Tigers @ Kansas City Royals Opening Day game thread (4/5)

[alnorth]

Final	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
DET (1-0)	1	0	0	0	0	1	6	0	0	8	12	1
KC (0-1)	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	4	9	1

Justin Verlander 5IP 4R 4ER 1BB 6K 1HR
Win, (1-0) Joel Zumaya 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 1K
Phil Coke 0.2IP 0R 0ER 0BB 0K
Hold, (1) Ryan Perry 1.1 0R 0ER 0BB 1K
Jose Valverde 1IP 0R 0ER 1BB 0K

VS.



Zack Greinke 6IP 2R 1ER 1BB 4K
Roman Colon 0IP 2R 2ER 1BB 0K
Blown Save, (1); Loss, (0-1) Robinson Tejeda 0.1IP 3R 3ER 0BB 1K
Juan Cruz 1.1IP 1R 1ER 0BB 3K
John Parrish 0.1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 0K
Kyle Farnsworth 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 1K

Home Runs

DET

none

KC

Yuniesky Betancourt, (1) - Bottom 2nd 2-run homer to left

AL Central

Final: CLE 0, CWS 6
Final: MIN 3, LAA 6

Starting Lineups

DET

1. Austin Jackson, CF
Major League Debut
2. Johnny Damon, LF
2. Don Kelly, LF
3. Magglio Ordonez, RF
4. Miguel Cabrera, 1B
5. Carlos Guillen, DH
6. Brandon Inge, 3B
7. Gerald Laird, C
8. Scott Sizemore, 2B
Major League Debut
9. Adam Everett, SS
9. Ramon Santiago, ph/SS

KC

1. David DeJesus, RF
2. Scott Podsednik, LF
3. Billy Butler, 1B
4. Rick Ankiel, CF
5. Jose Guillen, DH
6. Willie Bloomquist, 3B
7. Yuniesky Betancourt, SS
8. Jason Kendall, C
9. Chris Getz, 2B

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by DeezNutz

****ing nightmare, obviously.

I stand by my comment that pulling Greinke was the correct thing. Unfortunately, this season was lost long before the first pitch of the year, so decisions must be made to make sure that potential cornerstones are still viable when (if?) this team is ready to compete.

Then put him in the damn 'pen.

Send him to Omaha with a 90 pitch limit.

C'mon! Part of preparing your team for the future is establishing it's mentality. This loss will linger and you know it; you've seen it.

This is a crippling loss. Fans are going to go home from the K feeling the same as this board is feeling right now. They'll be disheartened and unwilling to bother with the next homestand.

You cannot just punt starts, games or seasons...ever. Otherwise you're going to continue in your pattern of organizational malaise.

[alnorth]

haha, they actually did it.

The Royals just gave up a walk, 6 hits, and 6 runs in an inning where they struck out the side. Anyone remember that happening?

[Jenson71]

Kendall, start us off right ol boy

[KevB]

Love stats this time of year. Colon's ERA and WHIP are "INF". Hahahahahahaha

[tk13]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Then put him in the damn 'pen.

Send him to Omaha with a 90 pitch limit.

C'mon! Part of preparing your team for the future is establishing it's mentality. This loss will linger and you know it; you've seen it.

This is a crippling loss. Fans are going to go home from the K feeling the same as this board is feeling right now. They'll be disheartened and unwilling to bother with the next homestand.

You cannot just punt starts, games or seasons...ever. Otherwise you're going to continue in your pattern of organizational malaise.

So we stretch him to 110 pitches or so. Then what do you do in the 8th inning?

[teedubya]

This was the quickest that I've become uninterested in a Royals baseball season, that I can remember.

[Stanley Nickels]

THIS^^^^^^^^^

[DeezNutz]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Then put him in the damn 'pen.

Send him to Omaha with a 90 pitch limit.

C'mon! Part of preparing your team for the future is establishing it's mentality. This loss will linger and you know it; you've seen it.

This is a crippling loss. Fans are going to go home from the K feeling the same as this board is feeling right now. They'll be disheartened and unwilling to bother with the next homestand.

You cannot just punt starts, games or seasons...ever. Otherwise you're going to continue in your pattern of organizational malaise.

Crippling? We're already in a coma.

If we had the pieces in place, then I believe that mentality is important, but you don't establish a thing with the 6-9 we trot out on our lineup.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by tk13

So we stretch him to 110 pitches or so. Then what do you do in the 8th inning?

Go to your setup man - Juan Cruz.

Cruz coming in with the bases empty in the 8th is an entirely different animal than coming in with 4 runs in, the lead lost and a lot of green ahead of him still.

Baseball's not as hard as you fellas want to make it.

Was it last year Thome killed Farnsworth for the year and the entire season became a parade of relievers that were incapable of pitching to their stuff? That's between the ears.

And Hillman (and anyone that agrees with that decision) just started the cycle anew.

All you can do is put your team in the best position to win - the Royals clearly did not do that. On opening day. In front of it's home fans. In the same manner that destroyed last season.

Yeah, that's gonna have this club and this fanbase geared up for the rest of the season.

Your only hope is that the Tigers MR sucks worse than yours. I suppose it's possible, but I still disagree vehemently with the decision.

[Jenson71]

I see the guy from Eastbound and Down made a team.

[Jenson71]

THIS IS OUR INNING!!!!

[alnorth]

In this thread, Chiefs Planet melts down over an opening day lead blown by the bullpen.

Have we seen this before?

[kstater]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Then put him in the damn 'pen.

Send him to Omaha with a 90 pitch limit.

C'mon! Part of preparing your team for the future is establishing it's mentality. This loss will linger and you know it; you've seen it.

This is a crippling loss. Fans are going to go home from the K feeling the same as this board is feeling right now. They'll be disheartened and unwilling to bother with the next homestand.

You cannot just punt starts, games or seasons...ever. Otherwise you're going to continue in your pattern of organizational malaise.

And thankfully you're not the manager, otherwise Grienke would be throwing 120 pitches 5 nights a week.

[Delano]

Originally Posted by Ari Chi3fs

This was the quickest that I've become uninterested in a Royals baseball season, that I can remember.

BAWWWW.


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[ChiefsCountry]

Damn I hate Hillman and our bullpen.