Series Analysis
Kansas City @ Minnesota
Wednesday April 25 KC 4-3 MIN
Thursday April 26 KC 0-1 MIN
Wednesday nights game was a bit of an unusual phenomena for the Royals. The bullpen held the lead...no joke they really held the lead. Before the game was turned over to the relief core Royals starter Odalis Perez turned in his best game of the season(6 IP 3ER 2K 2BB) and his longest outing of the year. I'm not sure where this start came from, but it could have something to do with both Scott Elarton and Luke Hudson on the horizon. Regardless, he pitched his way to his second win of the season. More exciting then the start of Perez was the 3 innings of scoreless ball from the bullpen. Brandon Duckworth, David Riske, Jimmy Gobble and Joakim Soria combined for 3 IP and oER! The Royals runs both came from 2 2-run homeruns, Mike Sweeney in the 1st and David DeJesus in the 4th, which was all the Royals needed to complete the win.
The Thursday night game was a bit different. Zack Greinke labored through 7 innings, 108 pitches(7 IP 0ER 1K 4BB). He struggled with his command all night, but even when he didn't have his best stuff, he still kept the Twins out of the runs column. The offense had the same problem. No matter what they did they couldn't get into the run column. Royals hitters left 14 men on base and ended up losing in 11 innings. Aside from the poor offense, the bullpen put together its second straight decent outing, except Todd Wellemeyer who got the loss(1/3 IP 3H 1ER) and has become my official whipping boy. The offense had plenty of opportunities to win the game and didn't, so its not all Wellemeyer's fault.
Other Notes
- The Royals struck out 13 times on Thursday...and struck out 17 totals times for the series
- David DeJesus is Red-Hot! His season line .315 4HR 4Doubles 9RBI 10BB oSB
- But he did go 0-6 on Thursday...and went 3/4 HR DB 2RBI 1BB on Wednesday
- Todd Wellemeyer's season ERA- 10.13
- Alex Gordon went 2-2 with 2BB on Thursday and only struck out 1 time during the series
-Mike Sweeney hit homerun #2 on Wednesday
- Soria picked up save number 3
The Royals are off to Seattle next for a 3 game series
Royals Fact: Tony Pena Jr. still leads the AL with 4 triples
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Royals 2007 Record: 7-15
2 Comments:
DeJesus is on fire. Where the hell did that come from?
So DeJesus is going to be the first guy traded this season?? And why am I not impressed (yet) with Wunderkind Alex Gordon?? These guys better get it going as I hoped the All-star break would be the point they would've collapsed, and not Mother's Day. (BIG SIGH)
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