I'd be ok with them waking up long enough to sweep Detroit this weekend.

It is one of those things best not thought about.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves here.

it's at home, and we're freaking hot. Gotta ride that gravy train while you can.

Last night was a truly amazing moment for me. Myself, my wife (of 15 years), my 14 yr old son, and my Three daughters (ages 10, 8, and 5) were all in our living room glued to the Royals game... All Cheering loudly.

It was a sight to behold for me... First time I've had the whole family doing that. The excitement across the city is no freaking joke. There are so many people that have never had this feeling here before (for baseball).

Take a second, lean back.... and enjoy this moment fellas.

Heyman on Twitter just pointed out that we've won 16 of 18 and lost half a game. Entirely impossible to determine, but I have to think that's never happened in baseball.

Somebody needs to Nancy Kerrigan Detroit

I agree, and yeah I am very much enjoying these wins. But to say that it is unacceptable to split with the 70 win Redsox is ludicrous.

That lineup sure looks toothless without Ortiz in there. It seems worse against LH pitchers for sure. I'd be quite tempted to push Shields back an extra day to rest his arm a tad, not pitch in 88 degree humidity, face good LH hitters Boston has. And just let him get Miami on Monday night.

I was mulling something along this lines last night... possibly re-calling Will Smith to pitch tonight or tomorrow, then duffy again on Sunday... Using the heck out of Bueno, Teaford, Collins and possibly even Joseph against Boston's Lineup.

The RedSox Team OPS vs LHP is .715 as opposed to RHP which is .819. Try and neutralize Lefthanded batters Ellsbury, Carp, Ortiz, Holt, and Drew, as well as Switch Hitters Saltalphabet (.551 vs LHP / .864 vs RHP) and Nava (.608 vs LHP / .854 vs RHP). Even Napoli's and Gomes' splits are worse against LHP.

Stack it up.

Saltalphabet. ROFL

Jeez....

Royals Pitching this year has hit for an OPS of .571... which is better than our SS position which has hit for .561 on the year.

Damn.

The Royals are damned Hot having won 16 out of 20 since the All-Star Break. But it ain't the bats doing it.

Team OPS before break - .686
Team OPS after break - .698

While it's certainly better, not by much.

Pitchers have really stepped it up. Here is the opposing teams OPS before and after

opposing OPS before break - .725
opposing OPS after break - .624

Lots of props to Dave Eiland, Doug Henry and the pitching staff as a whole.

Salvy should be back soon, right?

Supposed to catch a bullpen session Saturday, I believe.

Eligible to come off the DL on Sunday?

Your numbers prove the thesis. They'll never do it, but they should. I'd let Smith get the start Sunday.

Yes, I believe he can come back Sunday if all checks out.

One more note. I may be wrong, but it appears that Bruce Chen's emergence in the rotation has had a major benefit for Ervin Santana. I believe Santana has followed Chen in the rotation since the ASB (4 starts).

In those 4 starts, Santana is 4-0 with an ERA of 1.27, 22K/7BB, and a WHIP of 0.882.

I wonder if the change of speed coming off Chen is helping Santana.

Oh yeah, and speaking of Santana...

Ervin Santana ‏@ErvinSantana_54 19m
Thou hast seen nothing yet. #MigueldeCervantes #SecondHalfIsOurs

LMAO I love him. He called his shot at the ASB and is backing it the hell up.

I hadn't thought about that, but that is an interesting perspective.

I hope Chen comes back again next season. He is a great swing man.

If Yost tried to push Shields start back from Boston to Miami, there would be a physical altercation in the clubhouse.

Especially the way Shields pitched in his last outing. I'm sure he's chomping at the bit to get back out there.

Baseball vs football record wise. See what you think.

Most wins in a 162 game season... 116

Least wins in a 162 game season... 43

116 - 43 = 73

73 / 16 = 4.5

Baseball wins first = Football record

43 = 0 - 16
47.5 = 1 - 15
54 = 2 - 14
58.5 = 3 - 13
63 = 4 - 12
67.5 = 5 - 11
72 = 6 - 10
76.5 = 7 - 9
81 = 8 - 8
85.5 = 9 - 7
90 = 10 - 6
94.5 = 11 - 5
99 = 12 - 4
103.5 = 13 - 3
108 = 14 - 2
112.5 = 15 - 1
116 = 16 - 0


Seems pretty close in the fact that if the Royals win 90 games they will probably be right on the playoff boarder line... just as the Chiefs might be if we get to 10 - 6. Both records should get us in, but you never know for sure.

**** YOU BOSTON!!!!!

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pic fail

Rangers have traded for Alex Rios

Also Delmon Young DFA'd

I think the Rangers are going to make the playoffs, whether it be the WC or division. They play the weakest schedule of all, and there's no way they lose ground with that rotation. We can only hope that Oakland becomes chokeland. It's probable given their schedule.

Thursday’s Royals win over Boston was the highest-rated Royals game ever on FOX Sports Kansas City, shattering the previous record set Monday.

Oh, hey, Kyle Farnsworth was DFA'd!

I'd pick him up.... if we are planning on getting into a brawl.

Wow! That's pretty awesome. Actually, they ain't seen nothing yet. Wait and see if this team is still in the race when we play Cleveland the week of 9-16. Those ratings (if we are in it) could be amazing.

Hopefully...only game so far I've been to he got rocked...going tonight.

If we lose it's on you. I hope you're ready to carry that with you forever.

Per MLB.com, last night's win also gave the Royals the lead in the all time series match up. It stands at 121-120.

It's 221-220.


Also Detroit picked up 25 games on us the past 8 years to pull within TWO games all time of us 295-293. (We are 5-3 vs them this year so far so we're up FOUR now but they look pretty decent lately so I'm sure we might have a tough matchup on our hands)


Hope to exit the year with a winning mark vs Detroit.

Well, it makes sense to me. But I've got a buzz going, so math isn't my strong suit at the moment.

Go make some bad decisions and report back to us.

Yeah, that's what I meant to put down.


This just goes to show how good the Royals of the seventies and eighties really were. As bad as the teams of the past twenty years have been, it is still taking other franchises all of that time to try and catch up.

Joel Goldberg ‏@goldbergkc
Change on those calls in NY where scorer ruled errors on 2 balls lost in sun. Joe Torre reverses, Cain @ Gordon given hits

Kill yourself.

Yordano went 6 innings, 4 hits, 1 BB and 9 Ks. Nice.

Are there any legit SPs GMDM could snag over the next few days?

Somebody claimed Lohse, and a trade couldn't be made so Brewers pulled him back. No word on what team claimed him. I'm guessing he was too rich for Royal's blood, but who knows.

17-4. *Peels off another section*

Tim Lincecum. He's pitching much better lately, and is a FA after this season.

With what he might cost, I highly doubt they will drop that much cash on him.

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Tonight's standings.

Division
http://i.imgur.com/YlV9ISK.png


Wildcard
http://i.imgur.com/i3eMGgA.png

I love this.

Work Tampa Bay continuing to slide the wc looks beret and better

Reading through the game thread, somebody mentioned that this season "was like the 70's" with the crowd and the atmosphere. It's close. And one of the reasons is the at bats they are getting now.

Seeing guys go down in the count and shortening the swing to go the other way has kept several innings alive since the ASB. Last night in the 6th was another great example. We had 4 AB's where, down 0-2 or 1-2 guys laced singles the other way to keep the inning alive. And the Sox had no answer.

I've attended 22 games this season and last night might have made the last 30 years worth the wait. This team is white hot.

Justin Maxwell looks like a stronger, non spectacled version of Al Cowens. Although I'm not sure I want to see him CF too much. That shot by Napoli with the bases juiced, probably would have been caught by Cain or Dyson. Max covers ground well, but CF out there is huge.

One last thing: Shane Victorino must have attended church yesterday because it was a miracle that mofo caught that ball off Lough's bat. That happened right in front of me and when Lough hit it, and Victorino took one step in, I thought "We are tied". Then the ball started to sink and he recovered. He came back towards the bullpen and I got his attention and yelled at him: "that first step in is what gets a guy sent to Pawtucket". Bullpen dudes were chuckling.

What a great night.

There seems to be a winning attitude in the Royals clubhouse that I haven't seen in.....shit, I don't know. Its a damned shame that they shit the bed in May. Now they've got to win a boat load of games to make the post-season.

I think they proved yesterday, that they won't be intimidated by powerhouse teams.

Was there last night. Electric crowd would describe it. And only getting better with more wins.

Fans love the Royals and want to see a winner....this is heaven for me. last time i had this much fun was 1994 during the winning streak and taking the lead for the wildcard.
****ing strike

2003 was fun but the royals were falling hard at this time

This may have already been posted, but I went and looked up what Kyle Smith has done since the trade for Maxwell.

1 start. Went 2/3 of an inning. Gave up 4 hits, 3 walks, 4 ER. So he's sitting at a solid 54.00 ERA. Looks like he's set to throw again today.

Meanwhile Maxwell is 8-17 with 3 bombs and 6 RBIs.

I know, I know...sample size. But it still makes me happy.

Just win, baby! Sorry guys.

this.

+1.

Cowens was one of my favorite Royals. You look back at his stats now, and outside of his near-MVP year, you would say his bat was meh, he got caught stealing too much, didn't get on base, etc. But as a kid I LOVED how he played RF, plus I just thought he looked cool with those glasses.

I believe tonight's game is on MLB Network, for those of us out-of-towners who want to partake in the magic.

Just a few thoughts:
1. The move for Maxwell was just awesome. Where the hell was this guy? I mean, you look at his size and swing and he just looks like a slugger. Great pickup...I only hope we can keep playing him.

2. The bullpen continues to wow me. Bueno? Sure, why not.

3. Winning 3/4 is now very doable. I'm still gunning for the sweep, though. That would make a statement to everyone.

Let's do this!

I didn't hate the trade; at the time I thought it was just "meh." I saw him as the righty in a platoon (usually not many ABs) and a PH and wondered just how much impact he'd have down the stretch.

Well, he's already blown that away.

Dude has legit power. None of his homers so far have been cheapies.

After watching the Wednesday game and last night...I might be a believer.

I just realized that I got married the day before the start of the 2nd half of the season, July 18th. The Royals are 17-4 since I got married. The baseball Gods are either praising me or setting me up for a severe letdown.

I'm so sick of Texas mopping up on Houston and Anaheim. It's really crappy Houston moved to the AL this year. I said back in March that it could seriously affect the Wild Card because it would give Oak-Ana-Tex so many cheap wins that others couldn't get. (I was wrong on Anaheim since they suck balls this year). It's kinda unfair frankly.


I suppose the White Sox are nearly as bad.

So I hate to be Captain Bringdown (although the last time this team looked this good this late, I was 5 years old in '94), but should we be worried about the fact that this team has so many come from behind wins? I remember everyone saying last year that Baltimore (I think it was them, anyways) couldn't keep up their pace because of all their wins in 1-run games. Why wouldn't we be saying the same about come from behind wins? Hoping someone with more knowledge of baseball can give me a good explanation.

That said, I think I'm in this boat. That one last night made me feel excited to wake up as a Royals fan for the first time since....well..... Let's go make the damn playoffs.

Didn't Maxwell have alot of injury issues?

The reason we have so many come from behind wins is because our pitching is damn good, our bullpen is damn good, our offense just takes a while to get going.

adding on tambaberry's post - our lineup seems to get hot around the third or fourth time through on the SP and just demolishes relievers. That is based on my personal observation anyway.

Who would ever wear this?

http://mlb.imageg.net/graphics/produ...16624912dt.jpg


http://shop.mlb.com/product/index.js...6&locale=en_US

Wish I could be at the K tonight.

That being said I have the same type of excitement/ jitters I usually have before a big Chiefs game to just watch the Royals on TV tonight.

This is great.

You have been saying that all year. :D

And in May we lost like 8 one run games in a row. What's happening is everything trending back the mean.

According to Toby Cook (PR guy for the Royals), it's almost sold out for tonight. Only a few tickets remaining.

Is that an athletic supporter?

I think Maxwell's problem is that he strikes out quite a bit.

A come from behind victory occurs if we are down one after the first inning. Yesterday was more of a legit come from behind victory but it is definitely not our norm so no I don't think there is anything to worry about.

Good find. Royals just tweeted this.

@Royals We're tracking towards a capacity crowd tonight. If you plan to head to The K, please purchase your tickets ahead of time! #FillTheK #Royals

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yea right. That would be unreal. No way they sell out