Royals Avoid Sweep Behind Davies Pitching & Alex Gordon Homer

by Freneau on Sep 5, 2010 7:26 PM EDT in Kansas City Royals News

I guess we should still care.

Was Davies good, or merely lucky? Four strikeouts and three walks in six innings. Not many hits allowed. I don't know what the answer is. Do you?

I still think it's insane that Gil Meche is pitching.

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Insanity Wolf says....

by Boots 58 on Sep 5, 2010 8:06 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs

We're getting pretty good at

this one out of three stuff.

by Gus Zernial on Sep 5, 2010 8:10 PM EDT reply actions

No one sweeps us

I do like how good we are at winning close games though. It may be meaningless, but I think that it’s good we don’t buckle under pressure TOO often in close games anymore

But we get blown out to make up for it :(

by Boots 58 on Sep 5, 2010 8:22 PM EDT up reply actions

Now if we could only score enough runs

to make those blowouts close games and these close games blowouts…in our favor

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by Jojothebeachbum on Sep 6, 2010 3:44 AM EDT up reply actions

well, as I said in the game thread

I’m happier with Gil pitching, rather than Chavez.

"Things could always be worse." - Buddy Bell

by buddyball on Sep 5, 2010 9:22 PM EDT reply actions

Of course we care

let’s build up those save stats for Soria!

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by mazoboom on Sep 5, 2010 9:59 PM EDT reply actions

…to get one walk, one hit, and one strikeout every game, I’d be very happy with him—-despite being nearly a league leader in SOs—-so long as every hit wasn’t a Kendall-esque single. …Yes, I realize that a .666 OBP would be insane.

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by timlacy on Sep 5, 2010 10:08 PM EDT reply actions

if Jason Kendall can play catcher with two tendons torn off the bone and a torn rotator cuff.. Meche can pitch until his arm falls off while he sleeps

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by BHWick on Sep 5, 2010 10:10 PM EDT reply actions

He'd be like a...

…zombie from Michael Jackson’s Thriller video. :)

by timlacy on Sep 5, 2010 10:11 PM EDT up reply actions

OT -- but I just took a look at the Cardinal's fan confidence poll

and it is down to 25%. Oh, how quickly the “best fans in baseball” jump ship.

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by RoyalsFanStuckInCardsLand on Sep 5, 2010 10:45 PM EDT reply actions

Davies looked very good from the Dri-Duck seats.

Not particularly lucky at all. Not that many hard hit balls and Butler got him into a jam when he committed a fielding error that should have ended the inning.

If anything, our bats were lucky as we got two hits that we wouldn’t have gotten on a cloudy day, but I suppose Betemits ground rule double might have been a homer on a less windy day.

Meche looked awesome in the 7th. I was a bit surprised Tejeda came out in the 8th. I guess Meche will be the 8th inning guy next year. Judging off this outing I’d be surprised if they try to get 6 outs outta him.

by WURoyal on Sep 5, 2010 10:47 PM EDT via mobile reply actions

12 million dollar set up man.

It all happens here.

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by Warden11 on Sep 5, 2010 11:40 PM EDT up reply actions

what are they supposed to do?

yes it sucks and it’s stupid, but blame trey hillman for meche’s arm falling off…our choices are to either let him pitch and get something out of him, or have him go under the knife and get nothing.

BOOM YOSTED!

by Home Run Tony Cogan on Sep 5, 2010 11:44 PM EDT up reply actions

Agreed

At this point, a 12 mil dollar setup man is better than a 12 mil dollar hospital patient….although I would pay to see a one-handed game of checkers between Meche and Kendall :)

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by Jojothebeachbum on Sep 6, 2010 3:47 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

nice - and so would I

"Things could always be worse." - Buddy Bell

by buddyball on Sep 6, 2010 11:15 AM EDT up reply actions

In my opinion, Davies looked good today

He was getting a ton of check swing strikes, so it seems his pitches had a little extra movement today or were breaking closer to the plate. It was kind of windy, so that may have had a part in it.

If only he could get those walks under control.

by Soria's Unibrow on Sep 6, 2010 12:59 AM EDT reply actions

Maybe he paces just so he can perform well in september when everyone else gets injured

by Yamfun Cheng Kamfun on Sep 6, 2010 5:12 AM EDT reply actions

strategery

"Things could always be worse." - Buddy Bell

by buddyball on Sep 6, 2010 11:16 AM EDT up reply actions

I think Davies got a bit lucky

not super lucky, but 4 Ks in 6 innings is worse than league average, as is 3 BBs. 11 FBs out of 18 batted balls is scary, and 6 Gbs out of 18 is also worse than average.

Coulda been worse, of course.

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by Matt Klaassen on Sep 6, 2010 11:21 AM EDT reply actions

Some of

Davies stuff looked good. I do agree with MK he did get a bit lucky. Meche is a byproduct of the “process.” GMDM was trying to impressed people with his contract signing skills and his lacky Hillfire was trying to prove he could manage in the bigs. I sincerely hope that two things happen over the off season. The Walmart boys will sell the team to an ownership group led by George Brett and that we will finally see some of the so call “prospects” moved up so to have a legitimate chance to play at the K in 2011.

by grudz96 on Sep 6, 2010 12:24 PM EDT reply actions