Showing posts with label tigers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tigers. Show all posts

Monday, April 19, 2010

Scorecard - 14APR10 - Royals V Tigers

Got a little behind on the scorecards due to circumstances around here. Spent most of Saturday night getting caught up on the games, made for a late night watching almost 3 games back to back to back heh. Anyway, here is the scorecard from 14APR10. Couple of items of note on this one. When Adam Everett scored off a (former Royal) Johnny Damon double in the 5th inning, that gave Damon 1000 RBI's for his career. Jose Guillen also got his 200th career homerun in the 7th. Enjoy.


Visiting Kansas City Royals:


Detroit Tigers:

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Scorecard - 13APR10 - Royals V Tigers

No long post this evening, its my 14th anniversary, and just thought I'd post these scorecards before spending the rest of the evening with my wife. If you are a Tigers fan, you will probably enjoy these... I'm a Royals fan. I did not. Tune in tomorrow for my comments if interested.

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Scorecard - 12APR10 - Royals V Tigers

Luke Hochevar and Max Scherzer squared off again, this time at Comerica Park. When they squared off against each other last week, both pitchers walked away with a no-decision. Kyle Farnsworth picked up a win, and Jose Valverde got the loss in the 3-2 11 inning win by the Royals. This time, would be a little different.

Finally, a break-out day for the bats. The Royals really put things together, with help from the 4 errors committed by the Detroit Tigers, getting 10 runs on 15 hits.

Neither pitcher really had great stuff today, but Hochevar (1-0) had better run support, and only 1 error behind him. The failing of the Tigers defense attributed a fair amount to the loss for Scherzer (0-1) today, and he didn't help himself much either. A throwing error in the top of the 5th inning allowed David DeJesus to score to make it a 5-3 Royals lead.

Jose Guillen, and Carlos Guillen oddly enough, homered today for his third in the last two games. Maybe playing DH is helping him out more than he would like to admit. The Royals bullpen also had a decent day, if you ignore the trouble Kyle Farnsworth got himself into and then out of in the 9th inning. The past couple of games the bullpen has done a fair to decent job, far better what they were showing the first 5 games of the season, I only hope it continues. John Parrish had two hitless and scoreless innings behind Hochevar, and is starting to get folks around here talking about him.

Royals win 10-5 in Detroit, here is the scorecard, enjoy.

Visiting and winning Kansas City Royals:
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Hometown Detroit Tigers:
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Friday, April 9, 2010

Scorecard - 08APR10 - Tigers V Royals

Time is at a premium today, so I won't be doing a recap. Maybe tonight if time allows, in the meantime here is the scorecard for the game yesterday. Tigers won 7-3, sigh.

Visiting and winning Detroit Tigers:
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Hometown Kansas City Royals:
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Thursday, April 8, 2010

Scorecard - 07APR10 - Tigers V Royals

There was wind and rain, and the temps were in the low 40s last night, sounds like April baseball in KC to me. The weather didn't seem to have any effect on the pitching of Luke Hochevar or Max Scherzer however. Both pitchers were throwing some heat, and marching through the innings at a pretty good clip. Scherzer went six scoreless innings for the Tigers, and Hochevar went 7 2/3rds for the Royals. Hochevar left the game in the top of the 8th inning with a 1-0 lead thanks to Chris Getz batting in Yuniesky Betancourt after he singled off of Fu-Te Ni in the bottom of the 7th. Things were looking good for the Royals, Joakim Soria was coming in to work a 4 out save, everyone would be out of the cold soon, and the Royals would have their first win of the 2010 campaign. Maybe.

Soria was looking like the flamethrower we have come to love in KC, for the first three batters he faced. Austin Jackson struck out in the top of the 8th, Johnny Damon and Magglio Ordonez went in order right behind him. Three batters faced, three batters out, Soria is looking good. Then Miguel Cabrera came up to bat, fought off pitch after pitch, and after 10 pitches slapped a home run off the foul pole in right field, tie game. Uh oh. After getting the third out and heading to the dugout Soria showed more emotion than I think I've ever seen. It wasn't a pretty sight.

To extra innings we go, the 10th goes fairly uneventfully, and then we get to the 11th. At this point I'm beginning to wonder if this game is ever going to end since we hadn't really seen much offense in the game. Kyle Farnsworth comes into the game in the top of the 11th and bang, bang, bang, 3 singles and run scored. What the..? !? Seems like typical Farnsworth again. Jose Valverde comes in to close out the game in the bottom of the 11th, and gives up a homerun to Alberto Callaspo, then a single to Billy Butler. Maybe we can win this. Rick Ankiel comes up, hits a double to deep right field, and pinch runner Willie Bloomquist makes it home on an error by Grady Sizemore. Game over, finally.

I am going to attempt to not be negative in these posts, but with the way this bullpen has performed the past two games, that might not last much longer, that's all I've got say on that for right now. Bullpen, you have been warned.

Now, for the scorecard, the visiting Tigers:

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Followed by the hometown and .500 Royals:

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Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Light My Fuse

The second game of the Kansas City Royals 2010 season features a pitching matchup from the 2006 Draft, Luke Hochevar V Max Scherzer. I'm going to take a quick look at how they did last year, follow along if you'd like.

Luke Hochevar - 2009
WLERABBSOWHIP
7136.55461061.468


Hochevar had a couple of stand out games in 2009 for the Royals, showing what a lot of us have hoped he would bring to the team on a consistent basis. On June 12, he threw an 80 pitch complete game against the Cincinnati Reds for a 4-1 Royals win. He followed that up five weeks later with 13 strikeouts while helping beat the Texas Rangers 6-2 on July 25.

Luke had some brilliant games last year, and I think everyone will be happy if he finally breaks through and shows some consistency in this 2010 season.

The visiting pitcher for todays matchup is Max Scherzer, a product of the semi-local Missouri Tigers. Below are his numbers while with the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2009.

Max Scherzer - 2009
WLERABBSOWHIP
9114.12631741.344


Max had some good games last year also. While squeaking out a win over the San Diego Padres on May 26, he had 10 strikeouts in 7 2/3rds innnings. Since leaving Missouri and heading to the Majors, Max has had some success, but he is still not quite up to the level expected of him.

With Hochevar and Scherzer set to duel in Kansas City tonight, we will most likely see some fireworks. Question is, will those fireworks be from batters lighting it up, or the other way round? We'll find out tonight who gets burned.

Stats courtesy of http://www.baseball-reference.com/

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Scorecard - 05APR10 - Tigers V Royals

Below is the scorecard from the Kansas City Royals home opener on April 5, 2010. Once i've gotten further into the season I may have some kind of standard post for these, bit of a write up about the game, maybe some interesting tidbits, etc.. For the first one, I'm just trying to get it online. :) Be sure to click them to see them full size.

First up, the visiting Detroit Tigers:

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Followed by the home team Kansas City Royals:

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