Kansas City Royals @ New York Mets Game Thread (8/2)
 

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<tr><td>Final / 11</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> </td><td> </td><td> R </td><td> </td><td> E </td></tr>
<tr> <td> KC (54-52) </td> <td> 0 </td> <td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 1 </td><td> 1 </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> 2 </td><td> </td><td> 0 </td></tr>
<tr> <td> NYM (49-58) </td> <td> 2 </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> </td><td> 4 </td><td> </td><td> 1 </td></tr>
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Wade Davis 5IP 2R 2ER 0BB 5K 1HR
Kelvin Herrera 1IP 0R 0ER 1BB 2K
Louis Coleman 2IP 0R 0ER 0BB 3K
Aaron Crow 1IP 0R 0ER 1BB 1K
Loss (2-6) Luis Mendoza 1⅔IP 2R 2ER 2BB 0K 1HR

VS.

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Dillon Gee 7IP 1R 1ER 2BB 4K
Hold, (11) Scott Rice ⅓IP 0R 0ER 0BB 0K
Hold, (12) Latroy Hawkins ⅔IP 0R 0ER 0BB 0K
Blown Save, (2) David Aardsma ⅔IP 1R 1ER 2BB 0K
Pedro Feliciano ⅓IP 0R 0ER 0BB 0K
Win, (2-2) Carlos Torres 2IP 0R 0ER 0BB 1K

Home Runs

KC

none

NYM

David Wright, (16) - Bottom 1st 2-run homer to left
Eric Young, (2) - Bottom 11th 2-run homer to right

2nd Wild Card Contenders

Final: CLE 0, MIA 10
Final: SEA 8, BAL 11
Final: TEX 8, OAK 3
Final: NYY 2, SD 7

Starting Lineups

KC

1. Alex Gordon, LF
2. Eric Hosmer, 1B
3. Salvador Perez, C
4. Mike Moustakas, 3B
5. David Lough, RF
5. Louis Coleman, P
5. Miguel Tejada, ph/2B
6. Alcides Escobar, SS
7. Elliot Johnson, 2B/RF
8. Jarrod Dyson, CF
8. Billy Butler, ph
8. Aaron Crow, P
8. Luis Mendoza, P
9. Wade Davis, P
9. Justin Maxwell, ph
9. Kelvin Herrera, P
9. Lorenzo Cain, RF/CF

NYM

1. Eric Young, LF
2. Juan Lagares, CF
3. David Wright, 3B
3. Zack Wheeler, pr
3. Josh Satin, 1B
4. Marlon Byrd, RF
5. Daniel Murphy, 2B
6. John Buck, C
7. Ike Davis, 1B
7. Andrew Brown, pr
7. Carlos Torres, P
7. Anthony Recker, ph
8. Omar Quintanilla, SS
9. Dillon Gee, P
9. Scott Rice, P
9. Latroy Hawkins, P
9. David Aardsma, P
9. Pedro Feliciano, P
9. Justin Turner, ph/1B/3B

Early in. Go for 10! Kyle Davies, God help us please.

Its been 19 years since our last 10-game winning streak, and we are going for #10 with.... Davis. And Butler is relegated to ph duty.

Well, who knows, the Mets aren't a great team.

I wish Brett would do his administrative duties and Nancy Carrigan that mother****er

Dillon Gee is hittable as well.

Maxwell will homer tonight. Book it.

If he is in the lineup, that is.

I hope we keep the fire going. I don't want to see a sloppily played game with the excuse that, "They've done a lot of good work. These games will happen."

Sloppy play DOESN'T have to happen. It would be nice if we could make up at least ONE game in the division standings throughout this freakin' winning streak. Let's see it happen tonight, maybe.

Gee is a RHP, so I'm not sure why he'd be in the lineup. But Ned marches to his own beat

In for 10.

I'd love to see us start making up games on the teams in front of us, but I'm still more interested in how we're playing. If we keep playing at a high level, the other teams will come back to us.

Just keep winning.

Ned is a rogue.

In for the win.

I just don't understand why Davis isn't in the pen. There's no reason to keep trotting him out there as a stater. When does Duffy come back? What's the definition of insanity again....doing the same thing over and over and over again and expecting different results? That's the same kind shit that kept Frenchy a Royal much longer than he really needed to be. I hope to God we can keep this up. I've been waiting for October baseball for a long ****ing time in KC, hated always having to watch ****ing STL.

I'm nervous about Davis, too. But he did pitch much better against the White Sox in his last outing.

What's encouraging is that we have three good options at AAA (Duffy, Ventura, and Dwyer) should Davis soil himself again.