Kansas City Royals Tighten Grip On Fourth Place With Taut Victory Over The Indians
by Freneau on Aug 29, 2010 5:08 PM EDT
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The Royals stayed two games ahead of the Indians today thanks to a 6-2 victory in Cleveland.
- Bruce Chen was decent. His outing was pretty nondescript all the way around. He allowed two runs in six innings against a bad lineup. What is there to say? I guess perhaps we should start thinking about if we want Chen in the rotation next year. I guess.
- The Royals got three scoreless innings from the bullpen. Including a clean sheet from Jesse Everyday Chavez.
- Blake Wood struck out the side? This happened? Insert "he doubled his career strikeout total" joke here.
- Gregor Blanco and Wilson Betemit both walked three times today. Can't remember the last time that's happened with two Royals. Usually it takes an entire series to get two players up to three walks.
- MITCH!
- Brayan!
- Alex Gordon and Kila both had errors. I hope Dayton was playing golf after church today and missed it.
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Kila with the double dip
made two errors on the same play in the bottom of the third. With the game starting at noon central time, there’s an outside chance Dayton was still at the post-service gathering in the narthex.
I Couldn't Really
See Alex’s error since it was in the corner and they had the wrong camera angle, but I don’t think it cost an extra base. Kind of an odd ruling, since I’m pretty sure the runner was going for 2B before he boxed it around.
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
That's a bad ruling
unless the runner had stopped rounding first or at least slowed as if he would hold.
It was BS
He made a very aggressive charge along the line to field the ball quickly, and set up for the long throw all in one motion.
Obviously it didn’t work out, but it didn’t hurt anything. If he would have fielded it normally, he surely wouldn’t have had a shot at second, and if he went balls out and still semi-flubbed the ball (like he did) it wasn’t going to cost an extra base (3rd).
a long fly ball to deep center field, back goes Damon to the track, the wall, and Gone!
He Did Hold
A batter to a single off the LF wall. That probably was the best OF throw all day.
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
by philofthenorth on Aug 29, 2010 7:23 PM EDT up reply actions
Chen in the rotation would make sense
if you think one of our AA prospects will be ready by mid year. That said, he would cost us less than Davies wouldn’t he? I’d be all right with it, depending on who our FA acquisitions are.
KCA-NYN-PHI bidding war
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by Matt Klaassen on Aug 29, 2010 6:57 PM EDT up reply actions
What Are We
Paying him this season? BR cuts off after ’07. Baltimore paid him $3.8M in ’06, his only 7 figure season listed.
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
by philofthenorth on Aug 29, 2010 7:28 PM EDT up reply actions
Cot's and ESPN both say
$600,000 for 2009. The Baseball Cube says the minor-league contract he signed in December for this year was for $400,000, but of course it may specify special terms if should he be promoted again to the major league club, as of course he was.
I Don't Think
Anyone else would want him as a starter, so we’d have that going for us. Maybe 1/1 would do it; I wouldn’t mind that.
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
by philofthenorth on Aug 29, 2010 8:18 PM EDT up reply actions
To the contrary
Clutch is when you really need it. Surveying their margin, Yuni saved his ribbies for another day.
by 2X2L on Aug 29, 2010 6:09 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I have to ask...
Huh? I’ve been away. What is the series streak (has he had a hit in 93 consecutive series or something)?
"I DARE you to make less sense."
What a completely weird thing to track...
Also, who’s got the current record? Brett?
"I DARE you to make less sense."
I missed the game
but based on the boxscore it looks like Brayan cost Soria a save. Kendall would have known better than to drive in a run in that situation.
Strategic Failure Is
In his bones.
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
by philofthenorth on Aug 29, 2010 7:30 PM EDT up reply actions
I'd like to get some footage of Dayton atr Church
Does he sing? If so, how loud? Does he fidget? How does he dress? Does he stick around for coffee and donuts afterwards? Does he ever look at his phone? I’d really like to know this stuff.
One thing is for sure: he is at church every sunday.
That's an equally impressive streak.
Even God and Jesus have taken a Sunday off to rest.
"I DARE you to make less sense."
It's Just Dayton
And Ned Flanders.
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
by philofthenorth on Aug 29, 2010 8:26 PM EDT up reply actions
It was Saturday
God (and Jesus) took Saturday off to rest. Saturday is the seventh day when God rested after creation and Jesus was dead all of Saturday.
Maybe.
I just can’t trust a date as fact from a group of people who believe that the planet is less than 6000 years old. With all of the changes in calendars over human history, who knows for sure?
Anyway, I’d bet that Jesus and God have probably taken a week or more off here and there. Seems someone upstairs was missing from 1939 to 1945.
"I DARE you to make less sense."
Jesus was dead all of Saturday.
That’s happened to me a couple of times lately.
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
by philofthenorth on Aug 30, 2010 3:20 PM EDT up reply actions
I think I'd rather be inconceivable than mostly dead...
but I can be persuaded otherwise.
"I DARE you to make less sense."
If you had been inconceivable
you would require no persuasion.
Or maybe that word doesn’t mean what I think it means.
I think you got the word right,
but the object wrong. If I was inconceivable, this conversation would probably cause you a major head pain. Y’know, from the power of my existence.
"I DARE you to make less sense."
Language evolves
toward ever more abstract extensions of the metaphor. Perhaps I was taken in by my own pseudo-intellectualism.
It's time for Very Small Sample Sizes...
starring Kila!
Over his last 5 games, he is hitting .263/.391/.632
So, let’s congratulate Kila on a job well done!
Next time on VSSS, we look at Willie Bloomquist’s career as a #3 hitter!
"I DARE you to make less sense."
by dejackso on Aug 29, 2010 9:23 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Will,,,,
no need to post bias jabs…
“I hope Dayton was playing golf after church today and missed it.”
I thought this site was about the Royals, where some professionalism…
by PREGNANT ROLLERSKATE on Aug 29, 2010 11:35 PM EDT reply actions
Let's "even it up" for ya:
I hope Dayton was playing golf after the devil worship service today and missed it"
All good now?
"We're gonna win with pitching and defense" General Manager Dayton Moore, circa winter 2009
"Where did all these Indians come from?" General George Armstrong Custer, circa summer 1876
I knew when I posted the above
statement that I would set up childish replys from people like you so thank you for not proving me wrong…
by PREGNANT ROLLERSKATE on Aug 30, 2010 4:52 PM EDT up reply actions
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