***Official Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim @ Kansas City Royals Game Thread (8/13)***

[alnorth]

Final	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
LAA (60-54)	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	4	7	10	2
KC (68-46)	1	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	1	6	12	0

Garrett Richards 6IP 3R 3ER 2BB 4K
Cory Rasmus ⅓IP 2R 2ER 1BB 1K
Win, (3-3) Jose Alvarez 1⅔IP 0R 0ER 0BB 1K
Save, (27) Huston Street 1IP 1R 1ER 1BB 0K 1HR

VS.



Jeremy Guthrie 6IP 1R 1ER 3BB 2K
Hold, (12) Ryan Madson 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 1K
Wade Davis 1IP 2R 2ER 0BB 1K
Blown Save, (4); Loss (3-1) Greg Holland 0IP 4R 4ER 2BB 0K
Franklin Morales 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 2K

Home Runs

LAA

none

KC

Eric Hosmer, (13) - Bottom 9th solo shot blasted to center

Starting Lineups

LAA

1. Johnny Giavotella, 2B/SS
2. Kole Calhoun, RF/1B
3. Mike Trout, CF
4. Albert Pujols, 1B/3B
5. David Murphy, DH
6. Erick Aybar, SS
scratched
6. Conor Gillaspie, 3B
7. David DeJesus, LF
8. Carlos Perez, C
9. Taylor Featherston, SS
9. C.J. Cron, ph
9. Shane Victorino, pr/RF

KC

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

[kcchiefsus]

Originally Posted by Three7s

The borgs blow one game and the sky is falling? Lol.

You mean they blow two in a row.

[Hootie]

Talk about overreaction

[Three7s]

Originally Posted by Hootie 2.0

Talk about overreaction

Didn't you know that our BP has to be perfect 100% of the time? If not, then DFA.

[gblowfish]

Originally Posted by Anyong Bluth

This thread has aids and a bunch of pissy chickenheads running around with a big ole gash between their legs.

Reactionist drama queens.

Take a midol, grab your favorite pint of Ben & Jerry's to bury your face into, put on your favorite KD Lang album, and chill the **** out!


Can you do that for me, honey bunny?

I had a Dove Bar, put on my flannel jammies, got up this morning and drove my Subaru to work listening to Melissa Ethridge. Close enough?

[teedubya]

That was a fun game to go to... until the 8th inning. Oh well, they only cost $11/ticket. Glad this game wasn't on Saturday when they are going for $100+

[Bearcat]

The sad thing is if they lose in the first round of the playoffs because baseball, the doom and gloomers will continue missing the point and say "we told you so! /derp".

[Nightfyre]

With 48 games to go, the Royals, after being "cold" by their standards (IE playing .500 ball for a stretch, then dropping two fluky games after they got rolling again), remain 5 games up for the number one seed and 11 games up in the division race.

[Prison Bitch]

Originally Posted by Three7s

Didn't you know that our BP has to be perfect 100% of the time? If not, then DFA.

Holland sucks. Why fight it? Are you trying to be the "superior fan" who won't criticize?


-his ERA is now 4.15 and his whIP is 1.47. Both are double his numbers of the past 2 years. Not above, but double

-his advanced metrics (FIP, Sierra, etc) show identical declines

-his avg FB velocity is down 1.8mph. It was 7.1 runs above avg last year and is -1.3 below now.

-his secondary stuff (slider + split) show the same type of decline



Holland is a problem and don't thing for a second they're not sitting around talking about him right now as I type this

[srvy]

Originally Posted by bsroyals54

No we have to keep the bullpen "fresh" for the playoffs, so its OK now, according to Ned, who said in the post game "Wade was rusty" , or he's not a robot, (which is up for debate) this deep bullpen which is never used, count em 6-7 guys wasting away in the pen. Because Ned is a players manager, leave the starter to the wolves. He needs to go CG! Ned is ****ing around with wins and losses, it is a major issue that needs to be dealt with, the best bullpen in the league throws probably 30 pitches total per game, between 7 ****ing dudes

Its 2 losses and uncharacteristic losses for this team. Grow up and get a grip shit happens sometime. Al said it I believe "sometimes baseball happens" so true. Now have your mommy give you a soothing back pat and tell you everything is going to be ok.

[tomahawk kid]

Originally Posted by srvy

Its 2 losses and uncharacteristic losses for this team. Grow up and get a grip shit happens sometime. Al said it I believe "sometimes baseball happens" so true. Now have your mommy give you a soothing back pat and tell you everything is going to be ok.

While BSR's take is extreme - I do share some of the consternation (most likely as a by product of being a lifelong Royals / Chiefs fan).

While my initial inclination is to believe that Holland isn't 100% healthy - I can't really be sure (and maybe that's by design on Ned's part), because we haven't automatically seen HDH past the 6 inning in the past month. Those guys (at least in my mind) haven't been used consistently in their typical roles as of late.

Ned is obviously going to err on the side of resting guys this year, so they're ready for the post season. I get that. I do start to mentally "white knuckle" it a bit when they drop a few games in a row - as I've seen huge leads (in other KC sports genres) evaporate quickly.

I get what Ned's trying to do with respect to protecting the bullpen, but part of me wants to treat every game like a one game playoff (again, a by product of KC Sports fan PTSD).

[srvy]

If my memory serves me we had bases loaded no outs and couldnt push across a run. Then 2nd and 3rd 1 out not a run crossed the plate. If we just get 2 runs out of that we win by one. Im not a bit worried about our bullpen. I worry about moving runners and getting wood on the ball to simply sacrifice a guy home. We are sacks of shit at this and have been all season long.

[tomahawk kid]

Originally Posted by srvy

If my memory serves me we had bases loaded no outs and couldnt push across a run. Then 2nd and 3rd 1 out not a run crossed the plate. If we just get 2 runs out of that we win by one. Im not a bit worried about our bullpen. I worry about moving runners and getting wood on the ball to simply sacrifice a guy home. We are sacks of shit at this and have been all season long.

That's a fair counterpoint.

Our situational hitting also seems to have hit the skids since the All Star Break.

[Anyong Bluth]

Originally Posted by ChiTown

I have no issue keeping Holly as the closer for now. But, come playoff time, he's got be money, or he's got to go.

Shorter leash then, yes. Put it in perspective. If Eric Berry gives up a go ahead touchdown off a deep pass- is it time to bench him any time you're faced with a likely passing down and more than 7 yards for a 1st down?

Out of 162 games, 1 crappy outing is about the equivalent to having a bad series on one possession in a single game.

Obviously, it's not a perfect translation of equivalents, but if you make a change so quickly what does that say to the entire team?

You want the team to possibly play tighter under the perception that the coaches will make brash changes off one bad game?

Performance has a very real mental component. Instilling confidence is vital. It was key in Escobar's failure to eventual growth. The same confidence that everyone freaked out about batting Moose 2nd. To tell him that they believed he had the talent to take on the added responsibility. The power of support and positive reinforcement has transitive potential for realized improvement and success.

Constructive criticism is beneficial for targeted change of action- not sweeping shifts in one's role, value, and responsibilities.

Let the coaches earn their paycheck, and breakdown what is different from his previous success in order to affect the change in returning to form.

Punishment will never yield what rehabilitation can inspire in improvement.

[Anyong Bluth]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

I had a Dove Bar, put on my flannel jammies, got up this morning and drove my Subaru to work listening to Melissa Ethridge. Close enough?

Yes, now come to my window. . .

[Anyong Bluth]

Oh and for his "numbers" to be worse, the only one that matters for a closer is converting the save.

Talk about this when he's possibly blown another save or 2.