*** Official Kansas City Royals @ Chicago White Sox Game Thread (9/28) ***
 

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<tr><td>Final</td> <td> 1 </td> <td> 2 </td><td> 3 </td><td> 4 </td><td> 5 </td><td> 6 </td><td> 7 </td><td> 8 </td><td> 9 </td><td> R </td><td> </td><td> E </td></tr>
<tr> <td> KC (89-73) </td> <td> 0 </td> <td> 2 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 3 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 1 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 6 </td><td> </td><td> 0 </td></tr>
<tr> <td> CWS (73-89) </td> <td> 0 </td> <td> 0 </td><td> 2 </td><td> 2 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 4 </td><td> </td><td> 0 </td></tr>
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Alcides Escobar is the first player in MLB to start all 162 games at SS since 2012.

Salvador Perez breaks the Kansas City Royals single-season club record for most games started at catcher.

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Yordano Ventura 4IP 4R 4ER 1BB 6K 1HR
Win, (1-0) Casey Coleman 1IP 0R 0ER 1BB 0K
Hold, (11) Aaron Crow 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 1K
Hold, (1) Liam Hendriks 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 1K
Hold, (1) Tim Collins 1IP 0R 0ER 1BB 2K
Save, (1) Louis Coleman 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 3K

VS.

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Chris Bassitt 5IP 3R 3ER 1BB 5K
Blown Save, (2); Loss, (6-5) Daniel Webb 1IP 2R 2ER 0BB 2K
Scott Carroll 3IP 1R 1ER 2BB 5K

Home Runs

KC

none

CWS

Marcus Semien, (6) - Bottom 3rd 2-run homer to left

Other Relevant Games

Final: MIN 0, DET 3
Final: OAK 4, TEX 0

Starting Lineups

KC

1. Alcides Escobar, SS
1. Jayson Nix, pr/SS
2. Norichika Aoki, RF
2. Carlos Peguero, RF
3. Lorenzo Cain, CF
3. Jarrod Dyson, CF
3. Terrance Gore, LF
4. Eric Hosmer, 1B
4. Raul Ibanez, 1B
5. Billy Butler, DH
5. Josh Willingham, ph/DH
6. Alex Gordon, LF
6. Lane Adams, LF/CF
7. Salvador Perez, C
7. Erik Kratz, C
8. Omar Infante, 2B
8. Johnny Giavotella, 2B
9. Mike Moustakas, 3B
9. Christian Colon, 3B

CWS

1. Adam Eaton, CF
1. Moises Sierra, CF
2. Marcus Semien, 3B
3. Avisail Garcia, RF
4. Paul Konerko, 1B
4. Andy Wilkins, 1B
5. Dayan Viciedo, DH
5. Michael Taylor, ph/DH
6. Jordan Danks, LF
7. Josh Phegley, C
8. Carlos Sanchez, 2B
9. Leury Garcia, SS

In for possible division win!!

You are gonna be waiting a while. We can't win the division on Sunday

... and Seattle wins.

So, the Oakland and Seattle games are still relevant because Seattle could force a Monday tiebreaker game, which would be pretty sweet for us.

I realize that, but the possibility is there if we win tomorrow (which I think we will) and Detroit loses, which wouldn't shock me. Price got shelled by Mini-soda not that long ago . . . .

Mariners are throwing Felix today too. Will be a lot of pressure on the A's.

I'M JUST HAPPY THIS ISN'T ANOTHER ROY THREAD LOSE.

WE ARE GOING TO THE PLAYOFFS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



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In for the division part one!

The Angels kinda have incentive to let the M's win this one...especially if it becomes apparent during the game that the A's will lose (make your potential opponents play an extra game).

in for the alnorth mojo!!!

goooooooo royals!!!!!!!!!

Git 'er done, ROYALS!! :toast:

I'm in.

Win this for Bob Dole and his pops!

Baseball is my favorite pro sport. I love it.


But the season IS WAY TOO ****ING LONG.

GO ROYALS!!!

(((Belch)))

Going into this game the 2014 Royals team has 67 less home runs than the 2003 club, 59 less home runs than the 1985 club and 115 home runs less than the 2014 Orioles.


**** me runnin'

I'm leaving work early to watch this one.

We should have a decent idea by the time we start if it's good David or bad David up in Detroit. If it's good David as I expect, well let's pull the starters and get ready for Tuesday.

If Bad David appears, well holy shit.

Rany once said MLB is like a slow drip of agony whether your team is good (and you're living with every game) or horrible (and you can't avoid the daily losses)

Why do we not call this one wild card game what it really is?

It's a play in game.

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IN!

Because it's not. It's the playoffs, no different than the Chiefs-Colts wild card game last season. If Seattle & Oakland have to go tomorrow, that will be a "play in game" and not the playoffs.

Because we don't think of it that way for the NFL.

It is absurd to have 4 games out of 68 teams for "round 1", but its fine for 2 out of 10 or 4 out of 12.

That's pretty much what I think of it... don't have a problem with two wild card teams, but it's dumb to play 162 games (or 163) and then have a one game playoff, especially since wild card teams used to get a full series and have made noise in the past.

It's not like the NCAA, where the play-in teams aren't going to win a championship and will rarely do much at all. You have one or two teams capable of making some noise in the playoffs and one is gone after one game, in a sport where the best teams only win 60% of their games.

IN

I think the intent was to give the highest seeded division winner that the WC winner has to play some sort of an advantage. More rest, one less game, etc...,

MLB thought that the Wild cards were making too much noise. Wanted to reward the Division winners more.

Lose or Lost ?

BTW, your licenses to act as a dickhead has expired, you must report back to cell # 1 for being a pussy.

Maybe loose?

I think he was going for loss, but was overcome by his own idiocy.

In. Go Royals.

I MEAN WHAT I SAY AND I SAY WHAT I MEAN

Well, I put lost because he is lost at what he is doing.

What the hell !Lets go out with a win!

:Royals: Lets Go Royals :Royals:

0-0 Top 3

Well, the intent was probably to have the fanbase of more cities continue to care about MLB late in the season, but as a side benefit, this is pretty good.

The top seed can carefully set up their rotation while the wild card had to use their best pitcher to get there and is probably nowhere near ideal for their rotation.

Not clowning on you. Bruiser is a douche.

Go royals!

YOU'RE IN THE MINORITY WITH THAT COMMENT.

Tigers 1-0

No it isn't.

MLB playoffs are series, not one ****ing game.

It's ****ing play in game.

Detroit homers.

Well, now they are not.

MLB playoffs include the possibility of a 1-game round. There is no holy commandment handed down from God saying MLB playoffs are series.

If the A's lost today and Seattle won today. Would the A's throw Lester out there for the tie game? If we got Seattle who would pitch on Tuesday since Felix is pitching today?

Ian Kinsler with a HR.

You and the the rest of the dumbasses can buy into the bullshit label.

It's a play in game.

mauer sees 7 pitches but gets out

It is not a play-in game. Continuing to say it is, only makes you look silly.

Vargas sees 7 pitches as well AND walks

MINNESOTA SINGLES

The nice thing about the timing of the game, is we should know whether or not we should care about the outcome before the 8th inning.

If Detroit wins, then Davis and Holland should get the day off.

Arcia strikes out :'(

Price at 70 pitches and counting in the 4th

Nice leadoff double Esky!

WTF AOKI

Price has thrown 73 pitches through 4

WTF is with Yost and bunting in the 1st ****ing inning? He better not pull that shit in the playoffs.

ugh wasted lead off double

I don't give a rat's ass how you think it makes me look.

You are the ****ing dipshit that buys the bullshit label that MLB sells.

It's ****ing bullshit, and you're a sucker.

Haha

Bunting is so awesome.

Yes let's be adamant that it's a play-in game and make sure to keep the 29 year monkey on our players' backs. Good thinking.

Let's do this!

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a "play-in game"? WTF?

I guess all playoff games could be playin games considering you are playing to stay "in" something.

Fine, you wanna look like an angry fool yelling at the clouds, doesn't matter to me.

Nothing doing

Not yelling at the clouds, you ****ing idiot.

I'm yelling at your dumb ass.

But I guess, with your head in the clouds, it's close enough.

Twins strand a runner at second

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Go take a nap

LOL Butler

Billy just ate hit a double

WTF Butler

Just another foot!!! :cuss:

Come on Billy!

Watch us get nothing here

How in the **** does Butler not score there? I'm not watching as I am at a Basketball Camp in KC. Thanks

Good hustle, Bill.

He read it wrong. He thought it was a fly ball

The ball was hit really hard and he had to make sure it wasn't caught. Also, he is slow.

They said he had to wait to make sure it wasn't caught. :rolleyes: It just missed going out!

when Billy got to 3rd, he looked at Jirschle like "WTF?"

Everyone hitting the ball hard

*** Official Kansas City Royals @ Chicago White Sox Game Thread (9/28) ***
 

If we only get one run the way we have hit this inning that will be a big disappointment.

Price at 84 pitches through 5 innings