My favorite part is the Jeter part...lol.

koop you watching this soon to be A's pounding??!

Oh...and this just in...Joe Mays sucks. STILL don't have a clue why he is in our rotation........everyone else is fine for now....but he sticks out like a sore thumb.

A retarded sore thumb.

Joe Mays = retard.



Listening on radio....and actually, you should consider it an EMBARRASMENT to your team if you DON'T rout Joe Mays........no clue why he is on our team, you'll see better pitching the next two games and we'll actually have a chance to win, but with Mays on the mound.....he just likes to give the game away with walks.

our hitting is PATHETIC, buts hes walking em all on so its good

Exactly. Besides the homerun, he isn't getting hit that hard at all, he just walks EVERYBODY!!! Just inexcusable.

www.mlb.tv is a Godsend

wow that left fielder is having trouble

Yeah, Emil Brown is atrocious...no worries though, he won't be here next year, we have the prospects that will replace him next year.

these umps are horrible

It's the Joe Mays effect. Everyone gets worse at whatever they do when in the presence of Joe Mays.

is mays from the twins?

WOW!! Jimmy Gobble decides to throw strikes....and he gets two outs!?!?! WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Man...we'd been getting such good pitching lately until Redmen and Mays decided to walk the sh*t out of everyone these past two games.....still only down 4 though, could be a lot worse.

Yeah, Mays is from the Twins. I hope we can give him back.....noone, and I mean NOBODY except for Allard Baird and Buddy Bell have a clue why he is on our team....he has looked good for a total of six innings this entire year, including Spring Training....and including the past four years probably too....just a joke..but to be fair, we did lose a couple starters early on...so I guess throwing him out there is better than rushing our pitching prospects.


HR Reggie Sanders....still a ballgame for now as long as our bullpen can keep it reasonably close and the rain can stay away.

Rally time??

Oh wait, I forgot it was Emil Brown batting in that potentially big spot...he already got his one single for the game, so he is obligated to weakly ground out every other at-bat.

God I can't wait until Billy Butler brings his mega-hot bat to KC and takes this chump's job.....

as long as we get Haren out by the 6th inning we will hold onto this lead, he falls apart after the 5th almost every game

I swear if Jimmy Gobble or somebody else doesn't have May's spot in the rotation locked up by the next time that spot comes around.....I'm gonna drive down to KC myself and whip Allard Baird's ***.

wow sweeney is awwwwwful this year

Ehhhhhh..he hasn't been that bad. His OBP is decent compared to his average, and he has hit a TON of line drives and deep flys that have either been directly at somebody or that have fallen inches shy of a homerun......his numbers aren't good, but he's actually hit the ball pretty well this year, his numbers could and should be MUCH higher...it'll even out over the course of the year.

200 average 2 homers and 5 RBI, it will pick up but as of now its like he plays for the A's

Jesus.......Gobble has looked amazing thus far........doing a great job at picking up our bullpen...Mays needs to be released immediately and Gobble deserves his spot. If we don't make this move...then someone needs to stop taking a triple-dose of the retard pills.




Oh, you're right, his NUMBERS are awful right now..I just meant that they don't reflect how he's hitting the ball at all...he's been extremely unlucky in a lot of at-bats.

Prediction: Angel Berroa grounds into double-play.

90% sure this will happen right now.

Edit: He struck out....that's actually an improvement...still leaves a runner on.

good thing the A's are winning because if I lose on another hand with my ****ing kicker im gonna rape lee jones

Grudz up representing the tying run...............letdown....

Man...just imagine...if Joe Mays didn't start this game...we could be up 2-0 or 2-1...or at least be tied............we're a better team except for when we let Joe Mays walk every batter........hopefully he is off the team for good now..but knowing our GM.............he'll get a contract extension. (Slight sw on that last bit........slight.)

Another offensive threat down the drain................just can't pick up that one big hit. At least we kept the game close when it could've gotten real ugly due to Joe Mays......good pitching after Mays...just gotta get rid of him and maybe we win this game with only two runs scored.

man, why dont yall just give us more bases

?? We've only given you one walk since Mays left............what are you referring to. Our bullpen has kept you completly in check.....5.2 innings with only two hits and one walk I believe......this game hasn't been THAT one-sided, we've been one hit away a couple times from making this a tie or one-run game. Our team hasn't sucked that badly, just Joe Mays......

Well, we've got the tying run at the plate now with one out........Grudz and then Sweeney....would be nice to grab that one big hit right now...

..it won't happen, but at least the game's been close enough for a little excitement at the end. Bullpen did a good job tonight.

God I hate Joe Mays.

3-0 to Grudz.......wow...control problems for the OTHER team this time....amazing.

3-2 pitch......

3-2 pitch again.......BALL FOUR!

COME ON MIKE SWEENEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2-0 to Sweeney....

3-0....wow....

Walked him....5-3 now...with Sanders up, bases loaded.....base hit ties it....come on baby.

Oh damnit...Sweeney tweaked his back AGAIN!! WTF!?!?!!?

Come on Reggie........please Reggie......

0-1 Big swing and a miss

0-2....come on Reggie!!

1-2......come on Reggie. Just a base knock.

foul ball....still 1-2

struck out.....damnit.

Bases loaded, two down.....down by two with Doug Mientkiewicz up.........not looking good.

First pitch....ball

1-0 pitch......

game over.......so close, just couldn't come up with that one big hit.....

our team is still pathetic, we cant just end a game

i was referring to the 2 past balls and i thought they walked more, but oh well

04/28/06 -- Athletics 5, Royals 3

Winning Pitcher: Haren (1-2, 4.84 ERA)
Losing Pitcher: Mays (0-3, 11.07 ERA)

Box Score: http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/boxscor...oakmlb_kcamlb_1

Game Recap: Joe Mays started and walked five. Anyone want to take a wild guess as to how many runs he gave up in his brief outing??? Just retarded. Bullpen was magnificent after he left, pitching 5.2 innings with only two hits and one walk....offense mounted a decent amount of threats, but once again couldn't connect with the one key hit to tie or take the lead..even loaded the bases with one out down three runs, but could only get one run from it. Despite Mays being retarded, it was a pretty competitive ballgame, pretty well played by everyone else, except for Emil Brown in left with a couple of misplayed balls...but the wind was also horrific in left field..so maybe that lets him off the hook. Basically, we continue to play much better baseball, but unfortunately Joe Mays decides to be an outcast and not go along with it, so hopefully he just earned his way off the team.......with such a bad start, it is pretty good that we were still able to keep them to 5, as earlier in the year and last year this game would have been a rout...so it's progress...but we should'nt have been down in the first place. Still playing better though.

Signs of Royals Pitching Improvement

First 12 games...91 runs allowed. That's 7.6 runs allowed a game.

Next 9 games...37 runs allowed. That's 4.1 runs allowed a game.

Also, let's go a step further...let's take the god-awful Joe Mays out of this (as hopefully he won't be in our rotation much longer...)

79 IP total with 37 runs allowed...minus the 9 runs allowed over 7 IP for Mays.....

That comes 72 IP over the past nine games with 28 runs allowed.....that's a 3.50 ERA without Joe Mays.

With Bautista reportedly getting close to returning to ASSUMEDLY take Mays spot in the rotation and with Grienke coming back in July or so (best guess), it appears as if our pitching is going to continue to get better as the season goes on....which would be extremely encouraging. The offense is still poor, but we have a ton of prospects on the way that are guaranteed to change that (Gordon is a WAY better hitter than Teahen, Butler is a WAY better hitter than Brown, and Huber is a WAY better hitter than Mientkiewicz).....so the pitching starting to come around and pitch better this year would give us some good momentum/stability going into next year.

Things are getting better, just not showing up in the win-loss column right now.

04/29/06-- Oakland Athletics (11-12) vs. Kansas City Royals (5-16); 6:10 CT

Starting Pitchers: Esteban Loaiza (0-3, 8.35) vs. Jeremy Affeldt (1-2, 6.27)

Starting Lineups:

Athletics

CF Mark Kotsay (21 G, .250 BA, .330 OBP, 1 HR, 6 RBI, .699 OPS)
2B Mark Ellis (20 G, .200 BA, .259 OBP, 2 HR, 9 RBI, .593 OPS)
3B Eric Chavez (22 G, .282 BA, .380 OBP, 8 HR, 17 RBI, 1.034 OPS)
DH Frank Thomas (21 G, .197 BA, .265 OBP, 5 HR, 11 RBI, .686 OPS)
SS Bobby Crosby (17 G, .213 BA, .250 OBP, 2 HR, 6 RBI, .578 OPS)
RF Jay Payton (15 G, .183 BA, .183 OBP, 0 HR, 2 RBI, .417 OPS)
LF Nick Swisher (22 G, .316 BA, .409 OBP, 9 HR, 20 RBI, 1.133 OPS)
1B Dan Johnson (18 G, .155 BA, .246 OBP, 1 HR, 3 RBI, .488 OPS)
C Adam Melhuse (6 G, .267 BA, .313 OBP, 0 HR, 1 RBI, .579 OPS)

Royals

CF Kerry Robinson (0 G, .000 BA, .000 OBP, 0 HR, 0 RBI, .000 OPS)
2B Mark Grudzielanek (20 G, .291 BA, .329 OBP, 0 HR, 4 RBI, .734 OPS)
1B Doug Mientkiewicz (19 G, .262 BA, .310 OBP, 0 HR, 5 RBI, .679 OPS)
RF Reggie Sanders (18 G, .236 BA, .253 OBP, 4 HR, 13 RBI, .712 OPS)
DH Matt Stairs (8 G, .167 BA, .375 OBP, 0 HR, 1 RBI, .625 OPS)
LF Emil Brown (21 G, .208 BA, .286 OBP, 1 HR, 10 RBI, .591 OPS)
3B Mark Teahen (18 G, .220 BA, .277 OBP, 1 HR, 5 RBI, .650 OPS)
SS Angel Berroa (21 G, .280 BA, .289 OBP, 1 HR, 8 RBI, .663 OPS)
C John Buck (18 G, .205 BA, .280 OBP, 0 HR, 5 RBI, .598 OPS)

Royals up 5-0 in the bottom of the 2nd with two on and noone out......oh, BUT WOULDN'T YOU JUST KNOW IT.....this game is probably going to be rained out and it won't count...JUST THE PERFECT bad luck for the Royals for the 10000th time in a row....EVERY time good stuff happens, fate takes it away from us and sh*ts all over it. Mark my words, this game won't count, and whenever we have to make it up, it'll be Rich Harden pitching and he'll shut us out...to work out JUST perfectly against us...just f*cking bullsh*t.

As of right now, there is still a chance we can get this game in and win, but as a Royals fan, I am 99% sure we will be rained out. That's just how it goes for us.

6-1 Royals in the bottom of the 3rd.......and the tarp is now on the field. Just perfect.

WHEN, O WHEN WILL THE ROYALS EVER CATCH ONE SINGLE BREAK EVER!!??!?!??!?!??!?!

I'm torn. I'd like to see the Royals do well and have Reggie's HR stand.

On the flip side, I had Loaiza pitching today (although I assure you he has been replaced by Chacon of the Yankees in the past ten minutes). It'd be awfully nice if that outing never happened.

You got your wish, game has been called.

UnF*CKINGbelievable.

Jesus Christ, the Kansas City Royals HAVE GOT to be the f*cking unluckiest team ever, sh*t like this happens to us all the f*cking time....and just like every other year, we are going to be forced to make up this game in Oakland..just f*cking bullshit.

It was supposed to rain all night last night, but somehow after we fell behind, the rain JUSTTTTTTTTTT held off until after the game was official....but tonight, when it wasn't supposed to rain as much and we jump out to a huge lead, oh wouldn't you know it, it starts pouring almost immediately...just f*cking surreal. We can't get ONE good thing to happen to us without a ton of bad sh*t coming along with it. Everyone gets injured every single year, we constantly have bloop singles fall in against us in big spots, we lead the world in balls smashed yet being caught just inches shy of a homerun because of wind, we lead the league in wind-aided homeruns AGAINST our team, and just on and on and on and on.....I know we aren't that good of a team, but when you can NEVER catch one f*cking break......not very fun.

I GUARANTEE that we will lose about 9 in a row after this, just because that's the way it f*cking goes.

so this game is canceled and none of it counts?

Yup. Nothing ever happened. So, basically, the Royals received a "bad break" for the 5,768,458th time in a row.

Congrats on your win tomorrow, it's a stone-cold lock that you will win tomorrow. Fate won't allow us to win a game for about a week now. It's not even an issue. It's a certainty.

ouch

Wow...this thread (and others) got pinned?

Sweet.

Some moderator loves me.

04/30/06--Oakland Athletics (11-12) vs. Kansas City Royals (5-16); 1:10 CT

Starting Pitchers: Joe Blanton (2-2, 5.92 ERA) vs. Scott Elarton (0-4, 3.16 ERA)

Starting Lineups:

Athletics

CF Mark Kotsay (21 G, .250 BA, .330 OBP, 1 HR, 6 RBI, .699 OPS)
LF Nick Swisher (22 G, .316 BA, .409 OBP, 9 HR, 20 RBI, .1.133 OPS)
3B Eric Chavez (22 G, .282 BA, .380 OBP, 8 HR, 17 RBI, 1.034 OPS)
DH Frank Thomas (21 G, .197 BA, .265 OBP, 5 HR, 11 RBI, .686 OPS)
SS Bobby Crosby (17 G, .213 BA, .250 OBP, 2 HR, 6 RBI, .578 OPS)
RF Jay Payton (15 G, .183 BA, .183 OBP, 0 HR, 2 RBI, .417 OPS)
1B Dan Johnson (18 G, .155 BA, .246 OBP, 1 HR, 3 RBI, .488 OPS)
C Jason Kendall (19 G, .224 BA, .338 OBP, 0 HR, 6 RBI, .597 OPS)
2B Mark Ellis (20 G, .200 BA, .259 OBP, 2 HR, 9 RBI, .593 OPS)

Royals

RF Kerry Robinson (0 G, .000 BA, .000 OBP, 0 HR, 0 RBI, .000 OPS)
2B Tony Graffanino (10 G, .207 BA, .207 OBP, 1 HR, 4 RBI, .552 OPS)
DH Mike Sweeney (18 G, .197 BA, .333 OBP, 2 HR, 6 RBI, .678 OPS)
1B Doug Mientkiewicz (19 G, .262 BA, .310 OBP, 0 HR, 5 RBI, .679 OPS)
LF Emil Brown (21 G, .208 BA, .286 OBP, 1 HR, 10 RBI, .591 OPS)
3B Mark Teahen (18 G, .220 BA, .277 OBP, 1 HR, 5 RBI, .650 OPS)
SS Angel Berroa (21 G, .280 BA, .289 OBP, 1 HR, 8 RBI, .663 OPS)
C Paul Bako (8 G, .118 BA, .167 OBP, 0 HR, 1 RBI, .284 OPS)
CF Esteban German (10 G, .444 BA, .565 OBP, 0 HR, 2 RBI, 1.065 OPS)

well you called this one Koop, this game was over before it began, good thing we played the Royals to break out of our hitting funk

There was never any doubt. This is just the beginning of a LONG losing streak for us, we can't catch one single break to save our lives. That will continue for a while. Sweeney can't get a line drive to drop to save his life, and every single one of our outfielders gets hurt, forcing us to put an infielder in CF (German) and wouldn't you know it, he is hitting .500 and he loses a ball in the sun and gets hurt. This is starting to get a bit surreal how unfortunate we get in EVERY aspect of this game.




04/30/06--Athletics 13, Royals 6

Winning Pitcher: Blanton (3-2, 6.14)
Losing Pitcher: Hudson (0-3, 8.74)

Box Score: http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/boxscor...oakmlb_kcamlb_1

Game Recap: Game was tied 5-5 going into the 6th. Elarton had a bad start, but Peralta out of then pen had thrown 2.2 perfect innings on 22 pitches. The offense had put 5 on the board to tie it and we had all the momentum. But alas, Buddy Bell decides that we don't really need the win, so we put Luke Hudson on the mound. Hudson has shown ZERO ability to control ANY of his pitches in EVERY SINGLE OUTING this year. He has already blown a game 4 or 5 times this year, has mediocre stuff, and noone has ANY clue why he is on this team. Could we have left Peralta in, with his 1.50 ERA and perfect 2.2 innings thrown on just 22 pitches, when he is MORE than capable of throwing AT LEAST 2 more innings?? No, wouldn't want to do that. Would we want to go to Elmer Dessens, who has been brilliant for us this year with an ERA well under 3?? No, can't do that. Go with Mike Wood out of the pen, who has been extremely solid for us in long relief this year? No way. Andrew Sisco, who has had four scoreless outings and is perfectly designed for this spot?? Nope. Let's go with Hudson instead, who is virtually guaranteed to suck, as he has not had ONE good inning this ENTIRE year. Even his outs are line drives hit right at people. He sucks just like Joe Mays, but Bell just KEEPS on going to him, and two hits, one walk, and one HBP and one run later (with no outs recorded) he leaves the game having ensured we won't be victorious today. That makes five games that Hudson has single handedly thrown away for us...the entire team is so much better than this, but Hudson and Mays are given CHANCE after CHANCE after CHANCE to throw games away, when it is completely unneccasary. We have much better arms in our organization, but for whatever retarded reason, we won't let these no-talents go. Without Mays and Hudson we are probably sitting at 9-13 right now, and maybe even better, but we just insist on throwing games in the garbage by letting these douchebags pitch in big spots. Just retarded. Buddy Bell is really making some dumb decisions in regards to pitching...and the Baird firing countdown is on.....

Though I always root for us to win, I must say that if we lost another 8 in a row and Baird was FINALLYYYYYYYYYY fired, I would be okay with that.

the royals kinda remind me of the mid 90's A's squads, just misreable all around, God Bless Billy Beane

We aren't that miserable all around. ALL of our pitching beside Joe Mays and Luke Hudson has actually been decent this year overall. Not saying we are "good," but if we didn't give those two pitchers WAY too many opportunities to throw games away, our record wouldn't be NEAR this bad......but with other pitchers getting healthier, hopefully they won't be around too much longer. We'll see though, Allard Baird has a penchant for being extremely retarded with pitchers.....so we'll see.

Bottom line.....without Mays and Hudson we aren't THAT bad of a team...and Baird is a f*cking idiot who needs to be fired very soon...and Bell is heading down that path as well if he keeps on putting Hudson out there with games on the line.

Edit: Also, I'll remind you that your team got extremely lucky to get a game in which the Royals were dominating your A's washed out....our starting pitcher Affeldt was dominating and the offense rocked the sh*t out of Loaiza......but lady luck decided that it would never happen....only times that the A's "beat" the Royals was during Mays and Hudson's brief pitching stints....at every other point of the series (rest of Game 1 after Mays left, the brief would be Game 2, and after Hudson's disaster 6 run inning) it wasn't really that bad for us.....not saying we got "robbed" or anything (well..in Game 2 we did for sure), but overall, our team isn't as bad as it looks...just retards Hudson and Mays f*cking everything up.

I guess my white sox thread isn't good enought to be pinned

No, it's not.

I guess you'll just have to settle for that World Series trophy.




Wanna trade?

WOOOHOOOO!!


No more Luke Hudson...he'll probably clear waivers and go to the minors.

The first of a few cancers to be removed....Joe Mays is next.....then hopefully Angel Berroa......

05/31/06--Kansas City Royals (5-17) vs. Detroit Tigers (16-9); 6:05 CT

Starting Pitchers: R. Hernandez (1-0, 1.29) vs. J. Bonderman (2-2. 5.04)

Starting Lineups:

Royals

CF Kerry Robinson (1 G, .600 BA, .600 OBP, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 1.400 OPS)
2B Mark Grudzielanek (20 G, .291 BA, .329 OBP, 0 HR, 4 RBI, .734 OPS)
RF Reggie Sanders (19 G, .233 BA, .260 OBP, 4 HR, 13 RBI, .712 OPS)
LF Matt Stairs (8 G, .167 BA, .375 OBP, 0 HR, 1 RBI, .625 OPS)
DH Mike Sweeney (19 G, .185 BA, .325 OBP, 2 HR, 6 RBI, .648 OPS)
1B Doug Mientkiewicz (20 G, .250 BA, .316 OBP, 0 HR, 5 RBI, .669 OPS)
3B Mark Teahen (19 G, .219 BA, .271 OBP, 2 HR, 8 RBI, .678 OPS)
SS Angel Berroa (22 G, .266 BA, .275 OBP, 1 HR, 8 RBI, 629 OPS)
C John Buck (18 G, .205 BA, .280 OBP, 0 HR, 5 RBI, .598 OPS)

Tigers

CF Curtis Granderson (25 G, .269 BA, .376 OBP, 4 HR, 9 RBI, .849 OPS)
2B Placido Polanco (23 G, .299 BA, .317 OBP, 0 HR, 10 RBI, .626 OPS)
C Ivan Rodriguez (21 G, .330 BA, .372 OBP, 2 HR, 10 RBI, .816 OPS)
RF Magglio Ordonez (23 G, .304 BA, .343 OBP, 5 HR, 14 RBI, .865 OPS)
SS Carlos Guillen (25 G, .315 BA, .398 OBP, 5 HR, 17 RBI, .994 OPS)
1B Chris Shelton (25 G, .326 BA, .404 OBP, 10 HR, 20 RBI, 1.186 OPS)
LF Alexis Gomez (10 G, .240 BA, .296 OBP, 0 HR, 1 RBI, .616 OPS)
DH Craig Monroe (25 G, .258 BA, .293 OBP, 5 HR, 15 RBI, .766 OPS)
3B Omar Infante (9 G, .259 BA, .286 OBP, 0 HR, 2 RBI, .656 OPS)

Royals put up a fight in the ninth but the Tigers are just hot right now.. Also Bonderman pitched very well.

05/01/06--Royals 2, Tigers 3.

Winning Pitcher: Bonderman (3-2, 3.99)
Losing Pitcher: Hernandez (1-1, 2.63)

Box Score: http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/boxscor...kcamlb_detmlb_1


Game Recap: Another loss, but at least we pitched well, which at this point, is all I can really hope for. I'm not gonna complain very much at all when we lose and pitch well, because the offense is guaranteed to get better when we get our prospects here later in the year, so I'm not worried about that, but our pitching needs to at least have a decent year this year, and they've been pitching better lately. As for this game, Hernandez had a great start, looking extremely sharp until he tired a bit and allowed two runs in the 7th, leaving him at 3 runs given up in 6.2 innings against a pretty good lineup on the road. The offense was pathetic against Bonderman, but scored two in the 9th against their closer and got the tying run to 3rd...but alas, it was Angel Berroa who was at the plate at that point, and he's pretty much the worst guy to have at the plate in a big spot, and he didn't let anyone down when he chased a bad pitch and weakly grounded out. At least the offense showed a little life there at the end, but it wasn't enough. Again though, the pitching is the most important part for this season, and it was pretty good today, as Hernandez threw a ton of strikes and the guy that replaced Hudson (thank god), Andrade looked excellent.




Yup. Bonderman's stuff was SICK. I will never complain about a loss too much where we got good pitching, which we did today and for the most part have gotten for the past 10 games or so (with the exceptions of the God-awful Joe Mays and the now departed Luke Hudson). Our offense will get better in August/September and into next year when Gordon, Butler, Huber, and Blanco get here...so as long as we pitch good, I don't care THAT much what our record is. (Although of course I'd love to win..duh.)

Do you see the royals getting rid of Sweeney by the deadline or just keeping him as a core player? Also I haven't seen much royals baseball recently, so has Greinke started in the big leagues this year yet?

Tampa Bay's gonna claim him.

I say this because they made a trade for Tyler Walker for some reason and are therefore idiots.

And wsox, Greinke hasn't started because of that time he went crazy during spring training.

Don't correct me and say that's not what actually "happened," because I don't really care.

I personally hope we can trade Sweeney at some point for some pitching, but that probably won't happen. I don't mind keeping him as a DH if we can sign him to a cheaper contract when his current one runs out (end of 2007), as he is a pretty good hitter when healthy, and apparently he hasn't been healthy at all this year. Sweeney is a great guy, I like him, but his contract and inability to stay healthy are really hampering us.

As for Grienke, he won't be in KC until June at the earliest, he's in Arizona is "Spring Training" right now..and he'll be in the Minors for a little bit before returning. When he and Denny Bautista and J.P. Howell get here at various points in the year, our rotation will be that much better for it, and add to that Affeldt and Hernandez, who have thrown well this year, and the rotation looks better than the current one with Joe Mays. :shudder_icon:

05/02/2006--Kansas City Royals (5-18) vs. Detroit Tigers (17-9); 6:05 CT

Starting Pitchers: Mark Redman (0-1, 7.82) vs. Mike Maroth (3-1, 1.85)

Starting Lineups:

Royals

CF Kerry Robinson (2 G, .333 BA, .333 OBP, 0 HR, 0 RBI, .778 OPS)
2B Mark Grudzielanek (21 G, .289 BA, .326 OBP, 0 HR, 4 RBI, .735 OPS)
RF Reggie Sanders (20 G, .247 BA, .272 OBP, 4 HR, 13 RBI, .752 OPS)
LF Emil Brown (23 G, .227 BA, .315 OBP, 1 HR, 11 RBI, .648 OPS)
DH Tony Graffanino (12 G, .176 BA, .200 OBP, 1 HR, 5 RBI, .494 OPS)
1B Doug Mientkiewicz (21 G, .264 BA, .325 OBP, 0 HR, 5 RBI, .686 OPS)
SS Angel Berroa (23 G, .253 BA, .262 OBP, 1 HR, 8 RBI, .599 OPS)
3B Mark Teahen (20 G, .221 BA, .270 OBP, 2 HR, 9 RBI, .667 OPS)
C John Buck (19 G, .191 BA, .264 OBP, 0 HR, 5 RBI, .562 OPS)

Tigers

CF Curtis Granderson (26 G, .258 BA, .363 OBP, 4 HR, 9 RBI, .816 OPS)
2B Placido Polanco (24 G, .297 BA, .314 OBP, 0 HR, 10 RBI, .621 OPS)
C Ivan Rodriguez (22 G, .326 BA, .367 OBP, 2 HR, 10 RBI, .802 OPS)
RF Magglio Ordonez (24 G, .302 BA, .340 OBP, 6 HR, 15 RBI, .881 OPS)
SS Carlos Guillen (26 G, .315 BA, .396 OBP, 5 HR, 17 RBI, .983 OPS)
1B Chris Shelton (26 G, .319 BA, .402 OBP, 10 HR, 20 RBI, 1.168 OPS)
LF Craig Monroe (26 G, .260 BA, .294 OBP, 6 HR, 17 RBI, .794 OPS)
DH Marcus Thames (13 G, .289 BA, .357 OBP, 4 HR, 6 RBI, .989 OPS)
3B Brandon Inge (24 G, .224 BA, .299 OBP, 4 HR, 12 RBI, .786 OPS)

WOOHHHHOOOOO!!!


Sweeney going on the DL tomorrow...and Justin Huber will be called up to DH some......great move. Hopefully he hits well enough to stay here for the rest of his career.....hopefully he gets in the lineup everyday instead of just getting sparse playing time.

05/02/06--Royals 1, Tigers 4

Winning Pitcher: Maroth (4-1, 1.78)
Losing Pitcher: Redman (0-2, 7.00)

Box Score: http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/boxscor...kcamlb_detmlb_1

Game Recap: Pitching was fine again today, offense was pathetic. Some help perhaps could be on the way though, as highly touted hitting prospect Justin Huber will be on the team tomorrow to takeover as DH/1B for the mightly struggling and now injured Mike Sweeney....so hopefully he'll swing the bat well. As for today's game, Redman pitched pretty decent, fell apart a bit at the end (in the 6th), and the bullpen came on and pitched pretty well and kept the game close. Again, I won't complain about losing games in which we pitched well, as our offense will get better as more prospects get here. Considering the Twins gave up 33 runs (11 runs per game) and scored only one total run here in Detroit over their three game series, I guess I can't be too upset with only giving up 7 runs in two games to a team that is clearly red-hot offensively. So...record is sh*tty...but at least the pitching seems to be getting better....I'd rather have the pitching be decent/good and the offense crappy rather than the other way around...