*** Official Kansas City Royals @ Chicago White Sox Game Thread (9/25) ***

[alnorth]

Final	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
KC (87-72)	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	1	6	14	1
CWS (72-87)	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	8	0

"Big Game" James Shields 6IP 3R 3ER 2BB 4K 1HR
Win, (4-3) Kelvin Herrera 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 1K
Hold, (32) Wade Davis 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 2K
Save, (45) Greg Holland 1IP 0R 0ER 1BB 2K

VS.



Loss, (9-11) Jose Quintana 7⅓IP 5R 5ER 0BB 7K 1HR
Jake Petricka ⅔IP 0R 0ER 0BB 0K
Eric Surkamp 1IP 1R 0ER 1BB 0K

Home Runs

KC

Eric Hosmer, (9) - Top 6th solo shot to right

CWS

Josh Phegley, (1) - Bottom 2nd 2-run homer to left

Other Relevant Games

Final: SEA 7, TOR 5
Final: MIN 2, DET 4
Final: OAK 1, TEX 2

Starting Lineups

KC

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

CWS

1. Adam Eaton, CF
2. Alexei Ramirez, SS
3. Jose Abreu, 1B
4. Conor Gillaspie, 3B
5. Avisail Garcia, RF
5. Moises Sierra, RF
6. John Danks, LF
7. Dayan Viciedo, DH
8. Josh Phegley, C
9. Marcus Semien, 2B

[CaliforniaChief]

Nice work Al!

In for the CLINCHER. (I hope.)

[Prison Bitch]

Get the champagne on ice if Toronto completes the 4-game sweep

[KCCHIEFS27]

Early line for the royals with james on the mound is -135. Get it while it's hot!

[cosmo20002]

In 4 the start of the sweep

[Great Expectations]

Originally Posted by KCCHIEFS27

Early line for the royals with james on the mound is -135. Get it while it's hot!

Quintana is pretty good.

[Three7s]

Yay for the non-Bruiser thread! His day is done after last night's loss.

[cmh6476]

So I have an idea:

Let's tie with the Tigers then it shouldn't matter as much if we go to the WC. Two options then:

9/25 Shields
9/26 Guthrie
9/27 Duffy
9/28 Ventura
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9/29 Vargas is in line for the 1-game tiebreaker in detroit, but maybe they skip him and pitch Big Game instead

10/1 if we lose we can then send Vargas out against the A's since they can't seem to hit either. Then for the Angels series starting 10/2 we should be able to go out with something like Duffy, Ventura, Shields, Vargas, Duffy for the 5-game series.

Or if we would beat Detroit throwing Big Game then I think by the time the ALDS comes around on 10/2 we could be ready for Duffy, Ventura, Shields, Vargas, Duffy.

At least I think that is what I would do

[WhawhaWhat]

Bruiser is dead to me. Vargas probably saw his thread and decided to quit on the team.

[Dartgod]

Originally Posted by WhawhaWhat

Bruiser is dead to me. Vargas probably saw his thread and decided to quit on the team.

Yup.

[cmh6476]

who is this bruiser guy you speak of?

[alnorth]

Shields is probably not available Monday. We rearranged the rotation so he could pitch on Tuesday.

[CaliforniaChief]

Vargas shouldn't get the ball for any 1-game playoff. And Crow should not pitch in a game of consequence ever again.

[Great Expectations]

Originally Posted by CaliforniaChief

Vargas shouldn't get the ball for any 1-game playoff. And Crow should not pitch in a game of consequence ever again.

It has to be Vargas unless you want to skip someone's start in this series.

I thought Crow would be done after his last failed attempt.