*** Official Houston Astros @ Kansas City Royals Game Thread (7/24) ***
 

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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> HOU (55-43) </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>
<tr><td> KC (57-38) </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> </td><td> 0 </td></tr>
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Win, (6-5) Scott Kazmir 7IP 0R 0ER 1BB 3K
Chad Qualls 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 2K
Tony Sipp ⅓IP 0R 0ER 1BB 0K
Save, (21) Luke Gregerson ⅔IP 0R 0ER 0BB 0K

VS.

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Loss, (7-6) Jeremy Guthrie 7IP 4R 4ER 2BB 3K 1HR
Franklin Morales 2IP 0R 0ER 0BB 2K

Home Runs

HOU

Preston Tucker, (9) - Top 3rd solo shot to right

KC

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Relevant AL Central Games

Final / 12: DET 1, BOS 2
Final: NYY 1, MIN 10

Starting Lineups

HOU

1. Jose Altuve, 2B
2. Preston Tucker, LF
3. Carlos Correa, SS
4. Evan Gattis, DH
5. Colby Rasmus, RF
6. Luis Valbuena, 3B
7. Jon Singleton, 1B
7. Chris Carter, ph/1B
8. Jason Castro, C
9. Jake Marisnick, CF

KC

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

Should nuke the other one to get the bad mojo out of here.

I liked the old thread better.

Good lord, so I have to root for both NY and Boston all weekend? That makes me sick

have we nuked dusty craphopper yet? he shouldn't even be in rookie ball...........

That's almost as bad as rooting for the Raiders and Broncos. :Lin:

yeah, actually. He probably passed Cheslor Cuthbert on the road while driving back to Omaha.

Dusty may have been driving, but GMDM should have personally went to Omaha for Cuthbert in the Royals private jet.

Personally, I would have made Dusty run to Omaha without stopping.

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Did Cuthbert go Machine Gun Joe Viterbo on Coleman as he was passing him?

Sal gets tonight off:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="in" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Royals?src=hash">#Royals</a> lineup vs. Kazmir &amp; Houston. <a href="http://t.co/FLcqXPpoLP">pic.twitter.com/FLcqXPpoLP</a></p>&mdash; Josh Vernier (@JoshVernier610) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoshVernier610/status/624674823159939072">July 24, 2015</a></blockquote>
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Poor choice. I would've had him sit tomorrow night against a right-hander.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I would assume the former. They want Sal to catch Yordano on Sunday afternoon, so he has to sit either today or tmrw <a href="https://t.co/dp6aBiCIrB">https://t.co/dp6aBiCIrB</a></p>&mdash; Josh Vernier (@JoshVernier610) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoshVernier610/status/624676597736419329">July 24, 2015</a></blockquote>
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Poor Dusty Coleman

Nothing to do with the other team's pitchers. It's who we got starting.

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I was really hoping we would trade for Kazmir....good pick up by Houston

How about a win for old stoned on his birthday

**** the Asstros!

Happy 28th birthday!

Exciting 2013 ALCS matchup rematch tonight in Boston!

X2 :deevee:

Play ball

Your best years are still...........


AH, nevermind.

Let's go Royals


Let's go Jeremy Guthrie strike the bitches out

I was excited for the game. I forgot Guthrie was pitching.

:facepalm:

I get pissed when it is 102 out but they say it "feels like 109" **** you.

On occasion MLB umpires will wear blue, also, Hud. Seems to me that black is worn far more often than the blue, however.

3 pretty ****ing weak AB's there fellas

lead off single and he still gets out of it with 8 pitches

Thanks t-mobile for the uncle Rico flashback

0-2 to a walk on a .203 hitter..come on guts..no more free passes

okay lets take it to these guys already....

Nice work to get two strike outs Guth

Dyson > Orlando > Rios batting & base running


Dyson > Rios > Orlando outfield

twins already up 2-0 over the yanks

Ya know what would have been sweet?

If we had Cueto taking the mound to go against Cashmere

jfc we can't buy a hit....

**** their center fielder

**** Houston Astro geeks

We're hitting Kazmir hard

Let's do something awesome tonight boys...

uh, 2 hits were decent..nothing has been hit hard yet

Based on his depressing post on FB I'm sort of worried he veers into oncoming traffic.

Winning it would be awesome

Those hands are really freakishly huge! WOW!

here we go....

Fantastic!!

Going to happen with the heat and Guthrie on the mound. Solo shots are fine.

Guthrie made sure that good start didn't last long..

Unless they hit 4 or 5 of them.

He's ripping the Astros handling of him. That's a horrible story.

Yep... did you see the size of his hands??

****ing figures..these guys ****ing own our ass

Esky has no range

Crap he is on pace throw 60+ pitches four innings

Get ready for Blanton

JR Richard running the Astros way under the bus in this interview.

2nd time in as many innings a walk is now on 3rd base

Yes MASSIVE! Never have seen something like that. Love how he said he had to come to KC to get someone to talk about his story, because the Astros wouldn't!

Very interesting story.

Astros are a tough team for us apparently.

Totally. He just told them to **** off without telling them to **** off. Good for him.

Ok, stop messing around Gut...

Guthrie doing his thang.

****in swept us last year when they stunk as well

when we lost last night i told my wife we might be looking at a 4 game losing streak and watch the twins sweep the yanks....

i so hope im wrong...

Time for Guthrie to "hang em up"

Craparoni on the menu

twins up 3-0

They are.
The Astros are a team that strike out a ton and hit a huge amount of home runs. Our starting staff is full of contact pitchers, who strike out few. When you're pitching to contact to a team of boppers.. this is what you get.

Did she tell you to stfu?

She has him on ignore.

when was the last time we beat houston?

Yeah, I'm not old enough to have seen him pitch but I know he was great. I was just reading an interview with Dale Murphy the other day and he said the toughest pitcher he ever faced was JR Richard.

He was an absolute stud.

Whenever we played them last year not in KC. I would know because I was at all three of those games. LMAO

Just realized I will be at Huskers Night. Joy.

Yea very cool. Way before me but cool to hear.

6'8" with hands like Donkey Kong.

so they've beat us 6 straight?