Jakob Junis vs. Chris Sale may not be a traditional matchup between front line starters, but fortunately Junis didn’t let a little thing like narrative slow him down. The righty didn’t factor into Tuesday night’s decision. It wasn’t his best start of the season and I’d wager he didn’t quite have his best stuff, or […]
Tag: Royals
RECAP: A split twinbill is good for the Royals
With the Royals playing two today, I thought it would be a wonderful opportunity to kill two birds with one stone and recap both games! (Please send whiskey, I obviously need help). Game One This game was trash and bad. Alex Gordon was the only one who looked like a Professional Hitter™, which is all […]
RECAP: Matt Davidson might be a god
Pray tell, what aside from absolute madness would compel a man to spend his Friday night watching the Kansas City Royals and Chicago White Sox endeavor to baseball? Well, part of it is that hey, the Royals may win one. I hold no illusions about this most of the time right now, as we’re all […]
Friday Notes
I think I underestimated just how bad the bottom of the roster would be for the Royals this season, and while it’s really difficult to lose 100 games, it’s remarkably easier when you start off with three times as many losses as wins in the first 20+ games. The Royals sit at 5-18 right now, […]
Mashin’ Moose
This has become an annual exercise in this segment of bandwidth. For the third year running, it’s time to celebrate the hitting transformation of one Michael Christopher Moustakas. Let’s just get this out of the way: Moustakas is absolutely punishing the baseball. According to data from Statcast and Baseball Savant, Moustakas is barreling a pitch […]
Abraham Almonte was the bright spot, so yep that was a loss
What would you expect to get out of Danny Duffy on three day’s rest? Historically, the answer had been pretty good, depending on your perspective. In two career starts on less than four days of rest he’d pitched seven innings and allowed three hits, one earned run and struck out seven. The problem is that […]
Hammel’s sterling effort wasted in first game of doubleheader
Whoa. Jason Hammel pitched a complete game. Part of this, it’s true, is due to the singular nature of his accuracy and his pitch economy in Friday’s doubleheader opener against Detroit. He was deep into the eighth before he reached 80 pitches, finishing eight innings for the first time since 2015 and his first complete […]
B-O-Y-E-R Does Not Spell Relief
Editor’s note: This article was begun on a Friday morning before we got the wonderful news that Brandon Maurer had been banished to Omaha for Crimes Against Baseball in what, if there’s a merciful baseball God, will be a lengthy sentence. The slant of the article was initially supposed to be to trash both he […]
Friday Notes
Ned Yost was pretty jazzed up about a 3-7 start after Wednesday’s game, and I get it. The team had basically been horrible offensively and the bullpen was a disaster at times and the ace of the staff hadn’t completed six innings in any of his three starts. With that combination, three wins in 10 […]
RECAP: The Grimm Reaper Strikes Again
A semi-troubling Danny Duffy start was beset by another Justin Grimm implosion, costing the Kansas City Royals a 4-2 loss in the Wednesday series finale against the Seattle Mariners. Let’s start with Duffy. Something is not right. I don’t know what it is, I don’t know how to fix it and I won’t deign to […]