Bryan Bullington Shuts Down Yankees En Route To Royal Win
by Freneau on Aug 15, 2010 5:07 PM EDT
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Bryan Bullington allowed just two hits to the Yankees over eight innings this Sunday, striking out a respectable 5 hitters. The Yankee lineup wasn't even a Sunday scrubs edition either. Odd.
The big story, I suppose, is that Bullington was able to notch his first pitcher "win". Cool. For me personally, I haven't paid attention to pitcher wins since like 2000. Other than a little last year, when we were going through the Greinke stuff, it's just not something I pay attention to. How many wins does Bannister have? No idea. I just don't look at that data anymore. Anyway... this is mostly a discussion for another day.
"Win" aside, it's hard to imagine a better outing for Bullington, so in that respect, it's cool that his first "win" came this way, as opposed to vulturing a W in a random relief appearance. Bully for Bullington. I'll have another post on him up later tonight or tomorrow.
I suggest we start an internet meme that Pena called an amazing game today. I love the way he handles the staff.
In the end, hard not to see this as simply an awful Yankee performance. The made more errors (I know) than hits recorded after all, while a patient lineup walked just once. Royal pride.
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He Has A
Hose.
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
by philofthenorth on Aug 15, 2010 5:48 PM EDT up reply actions
Maybe if you throw in a
“Kendal projects from the bench” as a reason why Pena’s game-calling is so superb, then even the die-hard Kendall lovers might get on board.
Actually come to think of it, saying “Kendall helps the team more from the bench than from behind the plate” is actually not a falsehood.
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by SagehenMacGyver47 on Aug 15, 2010 6:20 PM EDT up reply actions
He Makes The
Bottom, top and middle of the batting order stronger.
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by philofthenorth on Aug 15, 2010 6:36 PM EDT up reply actions
All the same
Yankee indifference and all, there’s not really a good reason why the Royals shouldn’t run Bullington out there every fifth game the rest of the season and see what happens, is there?
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. -- Albert Einstein
by The Ol' Perfesser on Aug 15, 2010 5:23 PM EDT reply actions
What is the update on Hoch?
I feel like he’s vanished from the surface of the planet.
"Strikeouts are boring! Besides that, they're fascist. Throw some ground balls - it's more democratic."
by MinnesotaRoyal on Aug 15, 2010 5:40 PM EDT up reply actions
Either way, I'd rather run him out there than Davies.
MAJOR LEAGUE (The Royals)
Rachel Phelps (Royals Management): I think he'll fit right in with our team concept.
Charlie Donovan (Royals Fans): That reminds me, I was going to ask you. What exactly *is* our team concept?
by Royals Medic on Aug 15, 2010 6:08 PM EDT up reply actions
I honestly don't know WHAT
is freaking going on with Hochevar. At this point I can’t help but wonder if they are concealing mental health issues.
His stint on the DL just doesn’t make much sense.
I loathe David Glass
just wait and see
When he first went down, my brain instantly thought “Tommy John Surgery”
Christ, you don't need a quadrophonic Blaupunkt! What you need is a curveball! In the show, everyone can hit heat.
you have to run him out there for the rest of the season
he could be this year’s robinson tejeda (and kyle davies before him). He joins a tradition of suprise starters for the last month of a meaningless season.
by jackie ballgame on Aug 15, 2010 5:29 PM EDT reply actions
On Pena's telepathy with pitchers
Whatever we don’t know about this phenomenon, at least we know that Kendall doesn’t have it.
by jackie ballgame on Aug 15, 2010 5:31 PM EDT reply actions
The Pirates game thread intro
Off topic: Just finished watching Alex Rodriguez hit three homers against the Royals in Kansas City. I liked Kaufmann Stadium, but I was pretty glad I wasn’t a fan of either team. I rarely have a bad time at the ballpark, but throngs of Yankees fans never improve the experience. There are plenty of nice Yankees fans, but whenever I see someone in Yankees gear, I have to fight the urge to think “probable @#$hole,” and a run-in my brother had in the bathroom with some dude in a “Count The Rings” shirt didn’t help. Yankees fandom seems to be based more on bratty entitlement than on joy. Of course, Pirates fandom does not seem to be based on joy either, at least not recently, so I guess it would be fair for Yankees fans to ask questions about us as well.
The Royals’ current roster was a complete mystery to me, and it baffles me that they can be constructed so badly. They do have several genuinely good players (Zack Greinke, Joakim Soria and Billy Butler, in particular) but, for example, yesterday they had Jason Kendall batting second. I can’t think of anything the Pirates have done recently that is that silly; the whole Ryan Church situation comes the closest, and even that isn’t particularly close. The Bucs have had plenty of bad players this season, but all of them have been either young and interesting (Charlie Morton, say), or been in very minor roles (Brian Burres), or have performed at an adequate level relatively recently (Akinori Iwamura, Brendan Donnelly). Kendall hasn’t posted an OPS above .651 since 2006 and, as Kansas City’s scoreboard helpfully pointed out today, he’s leading major league catchers in games played. It’s incredible, really.
Seems we are not the only folks to notice the insanity of the Royals.
Not Today
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by philofthenorth on Aug 15, 2010 6:36 PM EDT up reply actions
I might be wrong...
but I think there were intelligent Pirates fans who were happy with the trade with the A’s since they figured Kendall was just about done being worth anything.
I’ll give Kendall credit for being worth something to the A’s the only full season he played there, but he was definitely DONE when they got rid of him, and that was years ago.
My apologies to all readying this that Dayton Moore thinks Kendall has value. Oh fuck that, stupid Royals. It’s DM, it’s Hillman AND Yost all trotting that piece of shit out there (nearly) everyday.
Nick Swisher is handsome.
Maybe now I won't be the only member of the Bullington Fan Club!
Official member of the Bryan Bullington Fan Club
He deserves absolutely no credit
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by philofthenorth on Aug 15, 2010 5:57 PM EDT up reply actions
My Name Is
philofthenortn, and I’m a Bullyholic.
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by philofthenorth on Aug 15, 2010 6:37 PM EDT up reply actions
I think Kendall deserves a lot of the credit for mentoring them from the bench
MAJOR LEAGUE (The Royals)
Rachel Phelps (Royals Management): I think he'll fit right in with our team concept.
Charlie Donovan (Royals Fans): That reminds me, I was going to ask you. What exactly *is* our team concept?
It's no coincidence Bullington has put it together for 2 starts.
After 10 years of struggling, he finally met Kendall.
Wait a second, I bet Bull
Just Saw It
ESPN guys were making fun of his attempt at running.
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
by philofthenorth on Aug 15, 2010 7:42 PM EDT up reply actions
He just might be
the only player in the 10-year-history of that ballpark to hit a ball all the way to the wall in that alley and get thrown out at third.
The ball got to the wall just after he rounded first — and it had rolled the last 25 feet or more.
Doug Mirabelli hit not one but two triples into that alley. Jose Guillen is no Doug Mirabelli.
I don’t remember if Bengie ever hit one. I’ll have to look that up.
Great call by the announcer
“Let’s see how fast Guillen can run. Not very.”
Kansas City Royals: your 2006 and 2007 NL Central champions!
On the Giants' telecast
Dave Flemming made this call: “They got him! And he knows he made a mistake.”
My follow-up question: Guillen knows, or Sabean?
by 2X2L on Aug 16, 2010 9:34 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
He Looks Like
Ron Cey on Quaaludes.
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
by philofthenorth on Aug 15, 2010 8:12 PM EDT up reply actions
Bengie Molina
has had 2 triples in that ballpark, May 23, 2007 against Houston and April 29, 2009 against Los Angeles.
When it comes to speed, Jose Guillen is no Bengie Molina.
but, to be fair,
Molina’s 2009 triple
bounced off the base of the fence in center field and away from Juan Pierre.
Molina said as he saw the ball roll away, “Hey, this is my only chance of the year, so let’s go for it.”
However, his 2007 triple went “to the deep corner in right-center”, where almost all the triples in that park are hit, and where Guillen’s drive was hit today.
Molina was surprised to hear manager Bruce Bochy, a former catcher, only hit two triples in his nine-year career.
“Really? That’s very nice to hear,” Molina said. “Something I was thinking about once I signed here was if I hit it in that corner, it might be my only chance.”
Apparently they’ll need to arrange for a few more corners in that park to give Guillen a chance.
And for the completists
Mirabelli’s first triple was April 11, 2000 against the Dodgers — the very first triple in the very first game played at Pac Bell Park. Ted Robinson, an announcer for the Giants at the time, bet an expensive case of wine that Mirabelli couldn’t do it again. And with that incentive he did, August 9, 2000 against the Brewers. Those were the only two triples in Mirabelli’s 1655 plate appearances in the major leagues.
i took this photo earlier this summer
The portion of the park formerly known as “triples alley” is where the grass along the warning track points outward toward McCovey Cove. Guillen’s drive reached the outfield wall in the middle of the red Bank of America ad, just at the right edge of this picture.
That’s a long way from the infield, but apparently not long enough.
Dick Enberg made fun of him too
and the SF Giants SBNation site is close to naming him Jose Nova.
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by BHWick on Aug 15, 2010 8:37 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Absolutely
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I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
by philofthenorth on Aug 16, 2010 12:17 AM EDT up reply actions
I'm A Guru
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
by philofthenorth on Aug 16, 2010 12:18 AM EDT up reply actions
Not Jose Rivera?
I guess they’ve blocked it from their collective conscience?
(just a lame excuse to post this)
Nick Swisher is handsome.
I've never seen a more anti Royals approach...
From Kevin Slowey, on being pulled after the 7th inning despite having a no-hitter going…
“I was encouraged by the way it was presented to me. I was encouraged by the fact that Gardy and (pitching coach Rick Anderson) care a whole lot about me as a person and as a pitcher in the long term than they do about winning one game or having one accomplishment. I think that says a lot about them, and it says a lot about our organization.”
He had thrown 106 pitches and was coming off of a missed start from elbow tendonitis…
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I just can’t help but compare this to all those times we trotted out Meche and let him throw until his arm fell off. I wish we had this sort of mentality instead.
MAJOR LEAGUE (The Royals)
Rachel Phelps (Royals Management): I think he'll fit right in with our team concept.
Charlie Donovan (Royals Fans): That reminds me, I was going to ask you. What exactly *is* our team concept?
Remember how, shortly before he was fired,
And when Davies took a no hitter into the 6th, Hillman made those comments about how he would be assassinated if he left him in there?
She thinks she missed the train to Mars; she's out back counting stars.
by KeepItCopacetic on Aug 15, 2010 7:20 PM EDT up reply actions
Speculation on Giants post-game
Wondering if Guillen is hurt, due to slow run to third (out stretching double)
We can riff on the lameness of the pitcher "win" any other day
but not today, as today shall henceforth be known as Bryan Bullington Day. On this day we all shall gather in the forum of the net and retell the tale of the heroic deeds of the Bryan-Brayan battery as they brought the mighty Yankees low.
Or we could just bitch about the pitcher “win”. That’s OK too.
The best thing is
We got not one pointless pitching stat, but two! Against the Yankees!
Life doesn’t get better than this.
Kendall has caught so many games that his pitch-calling is predictable!
The opponents can’t predict what Pena will do when there’s so little film on him! His calls are random and crazy!
Kansas City Royals: your 2006 and 2007 NL Central champions!
Yankees always sucked against pitchers they never seen before
We should just get guys from NWA/OMA every time we face them
by Yamfun Cheng Kamfun on Aug 15, 2010 8:44 PM EDT reply actions
Well, that was a little different.
Perhaps not bring guys up from AA or AAA unless they exhibit success at that level. Actually, no AA guys at all. With Bullington, you know he’s got talent or he wouldn’t have been a #1 overall pick.
or we can bring back Villacis
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