Game 122- Royals 5, A's 4(40-82)

by Freneau on Aug 22, 2005 12:56 AM EDT in Kansas City Royals News

As Al Pacino said at the beginning of his epic "Peace with Inches" speech at the end of Any Given Sunday, "I don't know what to say really."

If anything, the last 72 hours or so has taught us once again about the randomness of this game at the micro level. This might be seen as heresy, but three games in Oakland, with a decrepit Royals team winning 2 of 3 does more to backup Billy Beane's famous stance that the post-season's short series method of selecting a champion is largely random, the key is getting there.

The Royals fielded an absolutely horrible lineup tonight, and ended up scoring 5 runs from the 8th inning on. Incredible... absolutely incredible. I'm at a rest stop on highway 80 in Iowa that offers wi-fi, so I can't get into much detail tonight... but yea... our boys taking the series after all.

Consider this Jimmy Gobble's finest hour as a Royal, other than perhaps one of his better starts back in early 2004, when he almost single-handedly helped the Royals flirt with .500 for the seasons first two-weeks. (Yes, this is an incredibly lame accomplishment.) Turkeyman allowed no hits in 3 innings -- which I believe is technically considered a miracle in the eyes of the Church-- it isn't shocking that he only managed one K, but it does add to the bizzaro quality of his effectiveness.

This was a payback call kinda game from fate today my friends... Hope the ling as hell journey to KCI for the Boston series is fun. Giving evil Curt Schilling another three cheap three-run saves will suck though.

Does anyone else think Runelyvs Hernandez is a strange looking major league pitcher?

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Great Pitching this weekend

I must admit that I was terribly worried at the beginning of the game. Hernandez started out the game giving up some at'em balls, I was more than happy to see him go sit on the bench. Camp came in and did alright, at least held down the fort until we was wasted. And what can you say about Gobble. Brilliant pitching would be an understatement. Saturday's game, seriously, we allowed only two runs with a great outing by Lima, and Macdougal was able to effectivly shut the door.

One thing that was lacking was the offense. We only won todays game by the grace of Apollo (sun god). We are still playing the "water torture" type of game, and getting picked off, or thrown out every chance we can muster. If we dont get picked off, we ground into a double play.

If we could heat the bats up a little bit, and continue with our great (average for a normal team) pitching, we could easily put together a run where we might win 20 games in a row. This is a game of momentum, we saw evidence of that the past 3 weeks. Do we have the momentum running in the right direction now? Nature abhors a vaccum.

Mr. Weatherstone

by rjweathestone on Aug 22, 2005 1:21 AM EDT reply actions