*** Official Kansas City Royals @ Oakland Athletics Game Thread (6/28) ***
 

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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 (44-28) </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 3 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 2 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 5 </td><td> </td><td> 0 </td></tr>
<tr><td> OAK (34-44) </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 2 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 1 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 3 </td><td> </td><td> 2 </td></tr>
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Win, (6-5) Jeremy Guthrie 6IP 2R 2ER 1BB 7K
Hold, (4) Franklin Morales 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 0K
Hold, (12) Kelvin Herrera 1IP 1R 1ER 0BB 1K
Save, (9) Wade Davis 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 2K

VS.

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Loss, (4-7) Jesse Chavez 5⅔IP 3R 3ER 2BB 4K
Fernando Rodriguez 1⅓IP 0R 0ER 0BB 0K
Edward Mujica 1IP 2R 2ER 0BB 1K 1HR
Fernando Abad 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 2K

Home Runs

KC

Salvador Perez, (12) - Top 8th 2-run homer to left

OAK

none

AL Central

Final: CWS 4, DET 5
Final: MIN 3, MIL 5
Final (Game 1): CLE 0, BAL 4
Final (Game 2): CLE 0, BAL 8

Starting Lineups

KC

1. Alcides Escobar, SS
1. Christian Colon, SS
2. Mike Moustakas, 3B
3. Kendrys Morales, 1B
4. Eric Hosmer, DH
4. Lorenzo Cain, ph/DH
5. Salvador Perez, C
6. Alex Gordon, LF
7. Alex Rios, RF
8. Omar Infante, 2B
9. Jarrod Dyson, CF

OAK

1. Billy Burns, CF
2. Eric Sogard, SS
2. Marcus Semien, ph/SS
3. Stephen Vogt, C
4. Ben Zobrist, 2B
5. Josh Reddick, RF
6. Billy Butler, DH
7. Ike Davis, 1B
8. Max Muncy, 3B
9. Sam Fuld, LF

Would be nice to win today, but it'd be a lie to say the A's didn't have the pitching matchup in their favor today.

I have a feeling that we own this guy today.

Another Guthrie start. How many more are we going to give him?

We don't exactly have a bunch of healthy pitchers just waiting to step in. Hopefully we will in a week or two.

I'm not ready to give up on Guthrie just yet, I know he capable of giving us a good start

Just following the game threads throughout the season, it seems that Guthrie gives 2 to 3 good starts, then blows up for a game, followed by 2 to 3 good starts.

He's actually fairly consistent with his inconsistency.

Sounds like a #5 starter to me. Truly, as #5's go, he's not that bad.

Exactly. In his last nine starts he has an era of 5.54. If you take out the blow up Yankees game his ERA his 3.5 in that same time span and that still includes his last start in which he gave up 6 runs.

We are 8-6 in his starts this season. We are 5-4 in his last 9 starts. In two of those losses we lost 2-1 and 3-2. There is not really any reason to complain about that out of your number five starter.

Cain out of the lineup, tweaked his hammy yesterday.

Medlen to Omaha for his next rehab start. 75 pitches.

@McCulloughStar: All Your Favorite Bands Lineup: Escobar 6, Moustakas 5, Morales DH, Hosmer 3, Perez 2, Gordon 7, Rios 9, Infante 4, Dyson 8, Guthrie 1.

No, no. Every other #5 in baseball has a 3.2 ERA and a 1.1 WHIP and tosses 220 innings a year.

When do we start worrying about Cain?

Now would be as good a time as any.

Depends on how much worrying you like to do in general. If you don't feel alive unless you are worrying about something that will spell doom for the Royals, then go for it. If you prefer to wait until there's a significant chance that we have a problem, then it is probably early to worry about Cain's health.

We usually don't hit guys like Jesse Chavez very well but we'll see