*** Official New Yank Yorkies @ Kansas City Royals Game Thread (5/17) ***
 

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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> H </td><td> E </td></tr>
<tr><td> NYY (22-17) </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 6 </td><td> 2 </td></tr>
<tr><td> KC (24-14) </td><td> 0 </td><td> 1 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 3 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 2 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> X </td><td> 6 </td><td> 7 </td><td> 0 </td></tr>
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Loss, (0-1) Chris Capuano 3IP 4R 4ER 2BB 4K 1HR
Esmil Rogers 2⅔IP 2R 0ER 2BB 1K
Justin Wilson ⅓IP 0R 0ER 0BB 1K
Chasen Shreve 2IP 0R 0ER 0BB 2K

VS.

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Win, (3-3) Edinson Volquez 7IP 0R 0ER 0BB 5K
Wade Davis 1IP 0R 0ER 2BB 2K
Jason Frasor 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 0K

Home Runs

NYY

none

KC

Salvador Perez, (5) - Bottom 2nd solo shot to left

AL Central

Final: TB 11, MIN 3
Final: CLE 1, TEX 5
Final: CWS 7, OAK 3
Final: DET 1, STL 2

NYY

1. Jacoby Ellsbury, CF
2. Brett Gardner, LF
3. Alex Rodriguez, DH
4. Mark Teixeira, 1B
4. Garrett Jones, 1B
5. Brian McCann, C
6. Carlos Beltran, RF
7. Chase Headley, 3B
8. Stephen Drew, 2B
9. Didi Gregorius, SS

KC

1. Alcides Escobar, SS
2. Mike Moustakas, 3B
3. Lorenzo Cain, CF
4. Eric Hosmer, 1B
5. Kendrys Morales, DH
6. Salvador Perez, C
7. Omar Infante, 2B
8. Paulo Orlando, RF
9. Jarrod Dyson, LF

Nice

What's the "technical analysis" sat about tonight's game?

Well, it's gonna be like...

Ay you yanks, we da royals and we gonna win, yo.

And then we stomp them.

We're gonna win.

Eddy needs to get back on track with a win today. We need him to be a stabilizing force in this rotation

There will be moose dong today

Laid $ on the Royals since I'm in Vegas. Based on how my gambling luck has been this weekend, I'm going to apologize in advance

I think it's a wise gamble. We have the pitching match-up as far as numbers are concerned, and the back end of our pen is at full strength.

I think it is neutral at this point. This is our first game of the year after being at +10, so it is unchartered territory. petemetrics say we're at +9 for the fourth time, so if we win it signals a possible win streak. If we lose, a losing streak is signaled.
So, you can see this is a pretty big game.

Lineups are out. Gordon has the day off.

Hope I get to see it.

Funny. I look like that at every Jags game.

LOL. Please say that is either you or someone you know.

That gif is perfect. You can use it for nearly all situations and occasions.

Arod be like yo homies let's do drugs hoz be like let's drink

That is a mighty fine gif. Fan processes what happened, carefully considers it for a moment, and concludes that what he saw was stupid and the only available reaction is exasperated laughter.

In for the series win!

Just on a whim, decided to mute the TV and turn on the radio today. Curious to see if a game against the Yankees will wake Denny up at all.

Would be great to get the series here.

The Royals' salute to the Negro Leagues promotion is probably one of the best I have ever seen throughout any team and any sport I have ever followed.

The Yankees must be too classy and historical to participate in any fun promotions.

Moose is so awesome. He is great with kids. Does he have any himself?

Old school uniforms look so badass.

Agreed. Wish they would do this more often.

I don't believe so, but I know he got married not too long ago.. for whatever that is worth.

I don't believe MLB would allow it

Volquez has the sinker working today. Tremendous break on it early.

Probably not Monarchs retros.
There are teams that use old school versions of their own uniforms in their regular uniform rotation such as the White Sox, Padres, DBacks. I think the only way we could fit in any old uniforms on a regular basis would be if we introduced something like what we wore last year vs the Indians. But those are so close to our regular uniforms anyway it would be kind of pointless, those were beautiful though.

I'm probably in the minority, but I don't like it. Since there's 162 games, we can put up with the occasional old or zany uniform, but I'd prefer they stick with our official 4-5 uniforms.

I'd agree with this. And as of late it has only been 3 uniforms.
We haven't worn our daytime road alternates since the first week of the season.

Nice movement so far

Denny actually is awake a little bit. I don't know what happened to him during April.

Sit down bitch!!

Volquez got some good late movement. This could be good.

13 pitches. Very economical.

Give the camera man a drink of alcohol. He's shaking like he's having withdrawals!!!

Perhaps we could introduce a fauxback uniform that takes elements from the uniform we're currently wearing and replace the wording with "Royals" across the chest. Maybe wear them every Sunday home game or something.

But I like our traditional uniforms too much.

But the Royals have never worn pinstripes, yeah just keep this as a one time a year thing.

It's the wind. It's really whipping around pretty good.

Esky is so good when he doesn't take that home run swing every time he swings

Yeah, the current uniform with the "Royals" wouldn't look good with pinstripes on it.

I guess that sounds logical.

Yeah, the wind is freaking roaring straight out. Volquez needs to keep the pitch down, anything in the air today could go

That's what screwed him in 2013. He hit like 4 homers in April and it planted the thought in his noggin that he was a slugger for the rest of the year.

could have been worse..

terrible ab, cain

It's part of the reason why the camera angle is a little slightly off than we're accustomed to from FSKC.

Indeed. Hoping Capuano hangs a few here and there. But he's keeping it down so far.

You are not Harper, McCann. Strike out already, idiot.

10 pithes ****er finally goes down

Finally. Sit your ass down, idiot.

Nice inning.

need some noise out of our bats today, fellas

twins already winning again....

The bigger they rise, the harder they'll fall.

salvy!!!

Wooooo!!!

Booooooom!

YES!

Get the ball into the air today, fellas.

Help from wind there.

That's pretty good noise from Salvy!

BOOM!

Thank you wind

jfc, omar...of all the times you pull the ball, today you don't when you should

My lady knows that Omar won't swing at first pitches, so she tells the pitcher to throw a fastball in the middle.

To be fair, Tampa isn't very good this year.

Orlando looking like a lifetime minor leaguer.

Well it's not so much that as it is that he has pulled almost everything all season long and today with the wind blowing hard to LF he decides to go oppo...

Can't recall Dyson ever playing left for us. Has he?

Not that I can recall. I'm surprised they didn't move Orlando over there but whatever

WTF, Ump?

Volquez is pissed

Sit!

Volquez looking as sharp as his uniform.

nice...top of the order..moar runs, please

Good pitching from a starter. YES!!!

When Volquez has command like this there's not a whole lot of better pitchers in this world

good thing because we are looking silly at the plate for the most part

I don't think the Twins can sustain this - not with that pitching staff - but that offense is going to give opponents trouble all year. It's deep and annoying.

Torii Hunter also hitting at an MVP level right now... that won't last through the summer.