Impotent Offense Dooms Royals Again in Anaheim

Greinke was helped by some great defense though (especially in the OF) and was somewhat lucky to give up only one run without his best stuff tonight.

Are there any SS on the trading block?

head off of a chicken STAT!

And this one just crushed my soul. I’m livid. Aviles is so horribly bad and we had so many opportunities this one hurts

From the offensive standpoint at least. 5 hits? Saunders with 101 total pitches? 3 separate innings with 7 pitches? None with more than 17? Olivo makes a mistake that 17 of my high school baseball players HAVE NOT made the last two seasons. (17 guys on my team both years).

ZG didn’t have great stuff tonight. Not even close to what he’s had. And guess what. He pitched great. 1 run in 8 innings. Got out of jams. I thought he used his slow curve more than normal tonight but I never saw him break 94 on the gun. And that was just a few times that he got to 94. But he proved he is a great pitcher tonight. He held his team in the game the entire game. The offense has got to pick it up for him and Gil both. I don’t like this attitude of ZG/Gil is on the mound, we’ll be fine with one or two.

What we needed was one of our two aces to give us at least a win in the first two games in Anaheim. Both gave us a chance to win and both faced ineptness. Meche had a flyball dropped and turned into an inside the parker… not the little league kind where they throw the ball away to every base, the little league kind where the outfielder drops it and it goes to the fence. ZG had a catcher range to far off of second base and get tagged out on a little league base running mistake. Just as a reminder to all those little leaguers. When you are on second base and a groundball is hit in front of you or to your right, you go back to the base until the throw is made. If it is hit to your left, you advance. He must have missed that in spring training.

Bottom line: Bad loss. Great outing from our pitchers so far in Anaheim. Offensive failure. We have to get the bats going for Davies tomorrow. And soft tossing speed changing lefties are KILLING us this year.

but at what point do you consider getting another bat in a trade to keep us in this thing?

the news on hochevar? isnt he dominating the minors.. im sick of fat sydney and sometimes bri-bann messin with the rotation

but sounds like a really bad approach tonight, swinging at a lot of first pitches, not making the pitchers work, etc. We absolutely wore the White Sox pitchers out this past week. FWIW, we do seem to be struggling offensively against lefties this year.

We need to go get ‘em tomorrow, to get back on the horse. Let’s hope that they have a better approach tomorrow.

I know we are making this a big deal, but we have to take our wins when they are there!

I’m going to bed to rewatch this debacle…

were shutout seven times last year, including one to the lowly Nationals. They won the Series. I’ll be more worried if we lose four or five in a row.

They have been getting lucky situational hitting but their starting pitchers have been really good.

I think Trey has made some mistakes, not pinch hitting for Jacobs last night with 2 on and then bunting tonight with Coco and DDJ coming up. Coco is a slap hitter, to expect him to drive a ball for a sac fly is unrealistic. Aviles is struggling at the plate but if you are gonna set him up to fail by taking his bat out of his hand versus lefties then you might as well send him to Omaha.

Trust me, I was at the game. It was terrible to watch. Awful. That was such a porous offensive performance, I don’t know what to say.

But it’s two games. Take a deep breath and chill out. It’s ridiculous to say that if we lose the division by a game, or whatever, then these are the two games that will be the difference. May 8th and May 9th. Yeah.

If lots of stuff breaks right, then we’ll probably end up with something around 88ish wins. That is pretty much the best chance possibility, save incredibly bezerkly optimistic awesomeness, and even then, we will lose 74 games. Repeat that number to yourself: 74 games.

74.

Don’t freak out and act like the season is over because of one two-game stretch. Ohmygoodness.

The season isn’t over. I promise. The key is to avoid the double-digit losing streak. As long as we can win before Meche pitches again, I think we’ll be OK.

But no power ….. until gordon comes back :(

you guys guys lost by one. ONE RUN! The angels couldn’t score anymore runs the rest of the game. Zack Greinke pitched amazingly and worked 8 strong innings. He looks like a Cy Young Caliber pitcher. Also you make Saunders sound like he’s a rookie pitcher. He got 17 wins last year. He is our current ace with Lackey and Santana down and hes been playing like one too. You guys played real well and hopefully you guys can play some October baseball. I am rooting for you guys in the AL Central.

A few things make this a bad time to be playing the Angels. First of all, they are a franchise that expects to be in first place in their division every year, and now the spot is up for grabs when they were way behind Seattle just a week ago. You know this series is important to them, and they are the home team so this is their time to come through. Also, their top 2 pitchers, Lackey and Ervin Santana will be coming off the DL this week, so you got a few guys, who are quality pitchers, fighting to keep their spot in the rotation and possible the roster. Granted Joe Saunders isn’t one of these guys, but Mattt Palmer and Shane Loux are. This being said, I obviously feel it is most likely the Royals will get swept here. I hope I’m wrong.

On the bright side, they have a great chance to rebound in Oakland and then at home against the Orioles.

the Royals first case to show up the Mets in the competition of which team hates their ace more.

even when tats pitches.