*** Official Minnesota Twins @ Kansas City Royals Game Thread (8/28) ***

[alnorth]

Final / 10	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	R	H	E
MIN (59-74)	2	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	6	11	14	0
KC (74-59)	2	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	5	12	1

Tommy Milone 5⅓IP 4R 4ER 2BB 0K
Blown Save, (1) Ryan Pressly ⅔IP 1R 1ER 2BB 0K 1HR
Jared Burton 1IP 0R 0ER 1BB 1K
Casey Fien 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 0K
Brian Duensing ⅓IP 0R 0ER 0BB 0K
Win, (3-1) Anthony Swarzak ⅔IP 0R 0ER 0BB 0K
Glen Perkins 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 1K

VS.



Jeremy Guthrie 6IP 5R 5ER 2BB 5K
Francisley Bueno ⅔IP 0R 0ER 0BB 0K
Jason Frasor ⅓IP 0R 0ER 0BB 0K
Kelvin Herrera 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 1K
Greg Holland 1IP 0R 0ER 1BB 0K
Loss, (2-4) Bruce Chen 1IP 6R 6ER 2BB 1K

Home Runs

MIN

none

KC

Alex Gordon, (17) - Bottom 7th solo shot to center

Other Relevant Games

Final: NYY 2, DET 3
Final: TB 4, BAL 5

MIN

1. Danny Santana, CF
2. Brian Dozier, 2B
3. Kurt Suzuki, C
4. Kennys Vargas, DH
5. Oswaldo Arcia, RF
6. Trevor Plouffe, 3B
7. Chris Parmelee, 1B
7. Joe Mauer, ph
8. Eduardo Escobar, SS
scratched
8. Eduardo Nunez, SS
9. Jordan Schafer, LF

KC

1. Norichika Aoki, RF
1. Jarrod Dyson, CF
2. Alcides Escobar, SS
3. Alex Gordon, LF
4. Billy Butler, 1B
5. Salvador Perez, C
6. Josh Willingham, DH
7. Lorenzo Cain, CF/RF
8. Mike Moustakas, 3B
9. Christian Colon, 2B

[Hootie]

Originally Posted by teedubya

Ned is going to **** this postseason run up, I can feel it. You can't lose games like this in late August. It's not the end of the world but Ned does us few favors.

We lose in the 12th because of Chen? Ok, fine. **** you offense. This? Terrible. 99.5% Yost 0.5% JV Chen

[alnorth]

Originally Posted by thurman merman

Also, he did not appear in three consecutive games before that.

So a guy that was a starter last year can't throw more than 24 pitches in 6 days?

Warming up counts, its actually a large part of a relief pitchers workload, and why you don't just willy-nilly have guys warming up in the 4th or 5th at the first sign of trouble.

Get off the Wade Davis complain train, folks. Frasor is really the only valid criticism here.

[alnorth]

Originally Posted by Hootie 2.0

We lose in the 12th because of Chen? Ok, fine. **** you offense. This? Terrible. 99.5% Yost 0.5% JV Chen

I have to call bullshit on this.

If we did everything you wanted Yost to do, we're still less than 50/50. 99.5% is just absurd hyperbole.

Guthrie gets most of the blame for this loss.

[KCBOSS1]

So... They send Hendrix down to AA the day after pitching a 6 inning shut out... Reactivate sucky Scott Downs... bring Chen in in the 10th after only 3 appearances this month.. and 2 out of 3 of those terrible... I'm at a loss.

Best season in 29 years and we're trying to give it away. I swear, it's conspiracy. Ned is on NY & Det payroll

[bsroyals54]

Originally Posted by alnorth

I have to call bullshit on this.

If we did everything you wanted Yost to do, we're still less than 50/50. 99.5% is just absurd hyperbole.

Guthrie gets most of the blame for this loss.

I blame moustakas, hes the only player on this team where I have no hope at all every plate appearance he has.

[Hootie]

**** the long and middle relievers. If we have to use any of those dipshits, at all, even once, in a playoff game and Ned is ****ing reeruned.

If the dipshit had any ****ing common sense he'd drop Ventura out of the rotation if we make the playoffs and use him as our gap / 2 inning reliever where he can dial his stuff up over 100 and then we'd have, literally, an unhittable bullpen with Shields/Vargas/Duffy and Guthrie if we needed a 4th starter.

But **** face dipshit dingle **** would never be smart enough to figure that out

[Demonpenz]

This is the game when we miss the playoffs to point to that yost. blew it.

[CaliforniaChief]

I don't agree with how the bullpen was managed tonight, but seriously guys...

[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by ChiefsCountry

Who else was Ned going to use tonight? I guess Davis but all they had left was Chen.

That's on Dayton for having Chen as an option.

[alnorth]

Originally Posted by CaliforniaChief

I don't agree with how the bullpen was managed tonight, but seriously guys...

I think people are just assuming we were destined to score in the 11th.

Its easy to imagine that we were not going to score again until the 13th.

The primary reason for the loss is Guthrie. Even granting that Frasor should have come back out, Yost is way, way the **** down the list on who to blame.

[Hootie]

Al -

how in GOD'S ****ING NAME would we be less than 50/50 to win a TIED GAME, HEADING TO THE 9TH INNING, with HOLLAND and then DAVIS (if we don't win it in the 9th)?????

we have LITERALLY 6 ****ing outs to score a run...like 95% of the time

if we're at home

and we're tied

heading into the 7th inning

we are literally HEAVY FAVORITES to win against ANY ****ING TEAM WE EVER PLAY this year

HEAVY

FAVORITES

[bsroyals54]

Hearing Ned BS his way through this interview is amusing

[Demonpenz]

We shouldn't be on Sunday night baseball. Total.pretenders...shit attendance shit manager and aweful hitters

[Prison Bitch]

Originally Posted by Demonpenz

This is the game when we miss the playoffs to point to that yost. blew it.

We struggled all series with a garbage opponent, ad frankly we should be thrilled we took 2/3. Josh Willingham is now 1-14 last 4 games (0-4 tonight) so I'd blame him more today than Ned for sure. No?

[Mama Hip Rockets]

Originally Posted by alnorth

I have to call bullshit on this.

If we did everything you wanted Yost to do, we're still less than 50/50. 99.5% is just absurd hyperbole.

Guthrie gets most of the blame for this loss.

Guthrie was crap, but the Royals tied the game in the bottom of the 7th. You can't really blame Guthrie when the loss came after that.

Obviously, if Davis is not available and Downs is apparently not available, the majority of the blame goes to Yost for mismanaging the bullpen. If you've got two guys unavailable, you have to let Frasor and/or Herrera and/or Holland and/or Bueno pitch more. None of those guys threw more than 15 pitches.

Completely inexcusable. Whether you agree with the decision that Davis was "not available" or not, you can't disagree that given the circumstances, Yost screwed the proverbial pooch tonight.