*** Official San Francisco Giants @ Kansas City Royals Game Thread (8/9) ***
 

<table border=3 cellpadding = 4>
<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> SF (62-55) </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> 4 </td><td> 0 </td></tr>
<tr> <td> KC (62-53) </td> <td> 0 </td> <td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 1 </td><td> 0 </td><td> 4 </td><td> 0 </td><td> X </td><td> 5 </td><td> 9 </td><td> 0 </td></tr>
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James Shields throws the 22nd Complete Game and the 9th Shutout of his MLB career.

http://kansascity.royals.mlb.com/ima...s/80x80/sf.png

Loss, (8-9) Tim Hudson 6IP 3R 3ER 0BB 1K 1HR
Jeremy Affeldt ⅔IP 2R 2ER 0BB 0K
Jean Machi ⅓IP 0R 0ER 0BB 0K
Juan Gutierrez 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 0K

VS.

http://kansascity.royals.mlb.com/ima...s/80x80/kc.png

SHO, (1); CG, (1); Win, (11-6) James Shields 9IP 0R 0ER 1BB 5K

Home Runs

SF

none

KC

Alex Gordon, (11) - Bottom 5th solo shot to right

Other Relevant Games

Final: CLE 3, NYY 0
Final / 10: DET 2, TOR 3
Final / 19: BOS 4, LAA 5
Final / 10: CWS 2, SEA 1

Starting Lineups

SF

1. Angel Pagan, CF
2. Hunter Pence, RF
3. Buster Posey, C
4. Pablo Sandoval, 3B
5. Michael Morse, DH
6. Gregor Blanco, LF
7. Joe Panik, 2B
8. Travis Ishikawa, 1B
9. Matt Duffy, SS

KC

1. Norichika Aoki, RF
1. Jarrod Dyson, pr/CF
2. Omar Infante, 2B
3. Salvador Perez, C
4. Billy Butler, 1B
5. Alex Gordon, LF
6. Lorenzo Cain, CF/RF
7. Raul Ibanez, DH
8. Mike Moustakas, 3B
9. Alcides Escobar, SS

Since the Angels insist on losing baseball games, I guess we should keep an eye on them too.

For those following the whole SungWoo to KC story, this will be his first game.

Let's do this!

we got this!!!

Al North thinks the Giants play small ball.

I just checked the tickets on the royals web site. I think this game is going to sell out, so if you were planning on going to the K today, you should probably get your tickets now.

Just saw on twitter that there's also a long line at the box office of the K right now.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BunKh0kCYAEm54c.jpg

That's great. So, we probably won't have a repeat of this:

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/08/10/y7yhyha4.jpg

welp. Giants will lose this one. We have for some reason given no run support to Hudson, or Peavy.

The giants are getting swept this weekend.

:banghead:

I don't watch a ton of games outside of Giants and Brewers, but, what a beautiful stadium you guys have, and I loved Ned Yost when he was here in Milwaukee.

Now, ill feel free to go **** myself.

Kauffman stadium is awesome. There's been no reason for other baseball fans to see much of it for the past 25+ years, other than the all-star game.

Injuns are up 2 early against the Yankees.

If you were watching the Indians/Yankees game, it was pretty funny when Ramirez hit his first MLB home run.

Literally 5 seconds before he hit the home run, Eric Karros says "This guy's just warning the seat for Lindor." BOOM.

Our lineup is the same as last night, except Ibanez is the DH

Ok I like this lineup

They took a beautiful stadium and actually made it even more beautiful. Kauffman is one hell of a stadium.

come on Jays... bottom of the ninth. it's now or never