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

[alnorth]

Final	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
SF (62-55)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0
KC (62-53)	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	0	X	5	9	0

James Shields throws the 22nd Complete Game and the 9th Shutout of his MLB career.



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.



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

[TLO]

Originally Posted by Mavericks Ace

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.



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.

[Mav]

Originally Posted by Big Smoke

Ban me from the game day threads. I'm such a douche bag homer!