Royals Blasted By Reds
by Freneau on Jun 12, 2010 11:57 PM EDT
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PrintI wasn't really around tonight for the game. I'm old and pathetic and lame and never played the game, but it was a Saturday night. The wife and I were doing some summer shopping when I checked the score on my phone for the last time. I "watched" parts of the fourth, when the Reds went up 11-5. Odd that that is the way the game ended.
Kendall and Plus Hands each had errors I see.
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Jason Kendall is an excellent game caller
Jonny Gomes hit his two HRs on two cutters down the middle, 87 and 88mph
Hell, Phillips hit a homer off of the cutter too.
If Kendall can’t call a fucking Greinke game v. Cincy, what good is he?
Here’s a hint Jason. Cincy is aggressive, overpower them, and on 2 strikes, slider!
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by BHWick on Jun 13, 2010 12:11 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
something to look out for tomorrow
I’ll bet you almost anything that he calls all fastballs in the first. He’s done that in each Greinke start I’ve paid attention to this year. The old (dumbass) baseball thought of don’t show the other team your stuff in the first mentality. It’s dumb, but, then again, so are the Royals.
by scobes on Jun 13, 2010 12:19 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
v. the Twins
Span: changeup 88 (ball), changeup 88 (strike, called), fastball 90 (strike, called), fastball 94 (ball), fastball 91 (single)
Tolbert: fastball 90 (ball), fastball 90 (strike, called), fastball 90 (ball), fastball 90 (strike, called), slider 87 (ball), fastball 89 (ball)
Mauer: fastball 92 (strike, called), curveball 78 (ball), changeup 84 (ball), changeup 84 (single)
Morneau: fastball 95 (strike, swinging), fastball 95 (strike, swinging), slider 89 (ball in dirt), fastball 95 (ball), fastball 95 (foul), slider 90 (strike, swinging)
Cuddyer: fastball 95 (foul), fastball 93 (RBI single)
Kubel: changeup 85 (ball), curveball 73 (strike, called), changeup 84 (strike, swinging), slider 89 (foul), fastball 94 (foul), changeup 81 (ball), fastball 94 (double)
Young: slider 85 (flyout)
17 fastballs, 7 changeups, 4 sliders, 2 curveballs
the fastball speed is a big problem, especially when there’s no gap between fastball speed and slider/changeup speed.
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by BHWick on Jun 13, 2010 12:44 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I love delmon young there
“fuck it, I’ll just swing at the first pitch and fly out”
he WILL be a royal someday
ya know
it couldn’t hurt Greinke if he used one of his pitches as a “people will hit this and it won’t go anywhere” pitch. The dude has like 5 or 6 pitches, and no sinkers or splitters or stuff stereotypically associated with groundballs.
I’m not a fan of the changeup, especially when Greinke insists on just throwing 2004/2005-era 91mph fastballs.
and sequence with Tolbert is just nutty. Throwing the same pitch and speed 4 times in the same at-bat is just taunting.
The Reds have lots of guys like Delmon Young, and if Zack needs a game to play tomorrow, how about the game of “beat Luke’s pitch count from last year”
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nice job! apparently they keep talking about "command" or lack of
command. any ideas what causes command and how a pitcher can improve command? Does McClure think possibly that you improve command merely by mentioning the subject, or is this merely Bob Dutton parroting ignorance without analysis. there must be more to this than we’re hearing possibly?
wasn't the error on Betancourt a throw to Butler?
it takes an absurd amount to get an error charged to a first baseman these days
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Butler should have made that catch easily. That throw had a long hop.
Okay, well maybe we should tell that to Rain Man, because he practically bankrupted a casino, and he was a ri-tard.
by Clearly Ambiguous on Jun 13, 2010 1:52 AM EDT up reply actions
True, But Almost
Any time a throw hits the dirt, it’s a throwing error if the 1B doesn’t handle it.
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by philofthenorth on Jun 13, 2010 2:04 AM EDT up reply actions
which way does the CIN park face?
Cause I’m pretty sure one of Gomes’ homer just shattered my windshield.
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by Matt Klaassen on Jun 13, 2010 10:38 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
Just South of East
But the first one was high enough to catch the trade winds north I’m certain.
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by kcbottom9th on Jun 13, 2010 10:45 AM EDT up reply actions
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