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Royals at Indians 4/24 - 4/26

  • HitsRus
    Once again, the offense failed in some good situations, by a lack of patience. That seems to be a key. When they work for good pitches, good things happen. More than a few times, with the bases juiced, they have swung at a bad first pitch. Hafner and Duncan (who especially had a bad at bat with runners on) were guilty last nite.
  • fiction
    Need a win today to salvage the series. Choo is once again out of the lineup. Slumping Kotchman has the day off, as Lopez gets the start at first. I'm somewhat surprised Santana is getting the the start behind the plate with the quick turnaround from last night's game.

    Today's lineup:

    Brantley CF
    Cabrera SS
    Santana CA
    Hafner DH
    Duncan LF
    Hannahan 3B
    Lopez 1B
    Kipnis 2B
    Cunningham RF

    Tomlin P
  • OneBuckeye
    HitsRus;1153172 wrote:Just got back....Ubaldo maybe hit 90 once or twice on the radar gun... fast ball was 88 or 89...off speed stuff was high 70's.
    He threw just over 110 pitches...6...maybe 7 were 58 feet.

    SMH.
    You think that was bad. Perez's fastball was a blistering 82 MPH.
  • grodt
    I'm sure it wasn't planned this way, but if the game was tonight there might have been 10 people there.
  • Glory Days
    Looking like shit already
  • Crimson streak
    When will Damon be ready to play? I can't stand Cunningham playing any more and it gives us a better lead off hitter than Brantley
  • Crimson streak
    As I say that he gets an RBI single lol
  • Crimson streak
    Detroit down 3-0 in the first. And a possible sweep by Seattle.
  • vball10set
    OneBuckeye;1153396 wrote:You think that was bad. Perez's fastball was a blistering 82 MPH.


    There had to be something wrong with him--he looked terrible!
  • vball10set
    Crimson streak;1153686 wrote:Detroit down 3-0 in the first. And a possible sweep by Seattle.
    Who's throwing for the Tigers?
  • Crimson streak
    vball10set;1153692 wrote:Who's throwing for the Tigers?

    Porcello
  • vball10set
    Crimson streak;1153698 wrote:Porcello
    Hell, the Mud Hens rocked his ass...if Verlander isn't pitching, they need to score at least 6 runs to have a chance of winning...GO TRIBE!!!
  • HitsRus
    one thing I noticed about the crowd while at the game last nite....Basically, everyone there is a baseball fan... no corporate types to be found, unless they are hanging around the club seats.

    This ws my first visit this year. $9.50 for a beer...SMH Thank god it was dollar dog nite.
  • Glory Days
    bases loaded no outs = 1 run. nice offense.
  • ts1227
    Glory Days;1153784 wrote:bases loaded no outs = 1 run. nice offense.

    That's one more run than usual in that situation for them.
  • vball10set
    smh
  • grodt
    Well it was a good run. The starting pitching let us down these past two games, not necessarily in giving up a ton of runs, but in not being able to go deep in to the game. The offense cooled back off with the weather at home. Hopefully as it gets warmer, the bats will warm back up too. Duncan's performance the past week will make putting him back on the bench when Damon arrives an easy decision.
  • vball10set
    http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/boxscore?gameId=320426105
  • hoops23
    Acta fucks with the line up and our offense looks like ass again.

    Brantley is not a lead off hitter. He needs to be moved down.
  • wes_mantooth
    back to life...back to reality....
  • Laley23
    Seriously. Brantley needs to not be higher than 7 in the line-up and Kipnis needs to be top 3rd.
  • like_that
    hoops23;1153878 wrote:Acta fucks with the line up and our offense looks like ass again.

    Brantley is not a lead off hitter. He needs to be moved down.
    Acta is almost like Shurmur when it comes to managing the game. He tries to get too cute with his lineups and resting his players. He is his own worst enemy.
  • Glory Days
    grodt;1153851 wrote:Well it was a good run. The starting pitching let us down these past two games, not necessarily in giving up a ton of runs, but in not being able to go deep in to the game. The offense cooled back off with the weather at home. Hopefully as it gets warmer, the bats will warm back up too. Duncan's performance the past week will make putting him back on the bench when Damon arrives an easy decision.
    I am not going to hold my breath for Damon to be productive. his numbers have dropped for the past 3 years.
  • grodt
    He's going to be better then 2 of our 3 outfielders. (3 if Choo is hurt)
  • Glory Days
    grodt;1154321 wrote:He's going to be better then 2 of our 3 outfielders. (3 if Choo is hurt)
    He wont be better than Choo or Duncan this year.