Game XXXIII Thread: The Royals of Kansas City versus Rangers of Texas

The Royals offense failed to do much of anything against Rangers' starter Colby Lewis last night, and tonight they get to face the owner of a 1.47 ERA through six starts and 36.2 IP, Nick Martinez. While his 3.39 FIP introduces doubt into the veracity of that ERA and his 9.9 K% leads to genuine questions as to how exactly he is getting his outs, the fact remains that the ground-ball throwing right-hander has rather effectively neutralized run scoring thus far in 2015.

The man most hoping that the Royals offense figures out what the rest of the American League has yet to do--score on Martinez--is Royals starter Edinson Volquez, whose 3.09 FIP is a better mark than Martinez's but owns a 2.65 ERA, which is lovely but looks worse than it should next to his Ranger counterpart this evening.

These are the visiting Royals:

Here’s tonight’s #Royals lineup vs. TEX at 7:05 CT on @FSKansasCity, @MLBTV & @610SportsKC. http://t.co/WHDM6FORtD pic.twitter.com/4VBdb0oeSH

— Kansas City Royals (@Royals) May 12, 2015

Here are the hometown Rangers:

Martinez hits the hill tonight at 7:05 looking to keep the fire alive for the series. #LetsGoRangers pic.twitter.com/EJBxWgRzcp

— Texas Rangers (@Rangers) May 12, 2015

And since we're at this game, the Smashing Pumpkins will play you into this game.