*** Official New York Yankees @ Kansas City Royals Game Thread (5/15) ***
 

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Mike Moustakas was just short of hitting for the cycle (single, 2 doubles, triple)

http://mlb.mlb.com/images/logos/80x80/nyy.png

Loss, (5-1) Michael Pineda 5⅓IP 5R 5ER 0BB 1K
David Carpenter 0IP 1R 1ER 0BB 0K
Justin Wilson ⅓IP 2R 2ER 1BB 0K
Jose Ramirez 1IP 4R 4ER 2BB 0K
Branden Pinder 1⅓IP 0R 0ER 0BB 1K

VS.

http://mlb.mlb.com/images/logos/80x80/kc.png

Win, (3-0) Chris Young 5⅔IP 1R 1ER 2BB 2K
Hold, (1) Franklin Morales 2⅓IP 0R 0ER 0BB 0K
Aaron Brooks 1IP 0R 0ER 0BB 1K

Home Runs

none

AL Central

Final: CLE 8, TEX 3
Final: TB 2, MIN 3
Final: DET 10, STL 4
Final: CWS 7, OAK 6

Strarting Lineups

NYY

1. Jacoby Ellsbury, CF
2. Brett Gardner, LF
2. Chris Young, ph/LF
3. Alex Rodriguez, DH
4. Mark Teixeira, 1B
4. Ryan Murphy, ph/C
5. Brian McCann, C
5. Garrett Jones, ph/1B
6. Carlos Beltran, RF
7. Chase Headley, 3B
8. Stephen Drew, 2B
9. Didi Gregorius, SS

KC

1. Alcides Escobar, SS
2. Mike Moustakas, 3B
3. Lorenzo Cain, CF
4. Eric Hosmer, 1B
5. Kendrys Morales, DH
6. Alex Gordon, LF
6. Jarrod Dyson, LF
7. Salvador Perez, C
7. Drew Butera, ph/C
8. Omar Infante, 2B
9. Paulo Orlando, RF

Ace Young on the hill. Let's go.

In for the battle of aces

This is gonna be a great match-up. IN!

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Chris Young and his .289 opponent OPS. Let's go!

Today is George Brett's Birthday. Kick some Yankee ass tonight for GB!

We caught the Rangers when they were playing their best baseball of the season. Splitting that series was perfectly acceptable. The Yankees are in a mini slump, only scoring 5 runs in their last three games. Tonight is a tough match up but we ought to take two of three in this series.

I'm amazed the line vs Pineda is only +113, especially when we are throwing our long guy who hasn't had much success vs them in the past.

Any time you split a 4-game series on the road it's acceptable. Really even accpetable at home as well. It's tough beating a team 3 out of 4 games when you play them 4 consecutively.

well everyone pretty much thinks the Yankees are going to fall off and finish around .500 this year ... so ...

here is what they have:

Ellsbury and Gardner have been just about the best 1 - 2 hitters in baseball this year. Then, they have Rodriguez/Teixiera/McCann/Beltran who are K or HR hitters ... I think they all hit around .230 ... but if they hit it, it is usually hit hard.

They have a pretty subpar starting rotation ...

but then they have a Royals-esque 8th/9th inning bullpen ... if they are leading in the 8th ... the game is over. Betances / Miller is probably an even better combo than Davis / Holland (unless Holland starts throwing 95-96 again) ... and even then, they are flat out unhittable (especially Miller).

Now, with Betances, he has some command issues ... but that won't be a problem with the Royals ... because we swing at everything.

Let's put it this way ... if the game is tied after 7 ... expect a lot of extra inning baseball between the Yanks / Royals.

I actually almost look forward to the Royals hitting against Betances/Miller so I can see Pete lose his cool because the Royals are swinging and missing at balls ... or looking at strikes ... etc...

Betances 20 IP 0 ER 31 K's
Miller 16.2 IP 0 ER 29 K's

36.2 IP 0.00 ERA 60 K's

For reference, HDH have a combined 35 strikeouts in 40 innings.

Who's the dude that puts the weather radar on? Lots of rain around Kansas City today

Yeah the Yankees bullpen is tough. They are putting up disgusting numbers. These might be 5 or 6 inning games. I'm looking forward to the matchup though.
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Future Hall of Famer ARod in town

Cherish it folks

I don't care what Yankees backend of bullpen has done in the short term, I'll take HDH over anybody.

This. Plus didn't we get to Miller in the ALCS last year?

I'm not bashing KC's bullpen at all ... it's the best bullpen in the Majors.

But this isn't a short term thing for Betances and Miller. They both pwned last year, too.

Last year's best relievers were Holland, Davis, Betances and Miller in the AL.

this is usually pretty accurate when I do DFS

http://dailybaseballdata.com/cgi-bin/weather.pl

looks like there is about a 20% chance of rain for the entire game + 3 hours after ... should be ok

Yeah, the forecast that looked dicey this morning has significantly improved. I guess the storm system blew through more quickly than they expected

Nope. Miller owned us.

They did light up Zach Britton, the O's closer, though.

FYP :D

Think we'll manage to get through a game without a ****ing error for once?

Lineups are out. Usual lineup for us today, with Orlando in right

Shouldn't be too much longer on Rios' return, right? Maybe a week or two? Last I heard was he was taking swings off of a tee IIRC.

We've just got to get some good hits on the Pineda and the whole thing will bust open. It'll be sweet!!!

2-3 more weeks

Interested to see if the K is less Yankee-fan infested this weekend.

Maybe my favorite sports moment. Definitely my first really huge awesome sports memory where I was going crazy with ecstasy.

THANKS ARCHIE

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Doubtful.

How the hell does Pineda have a 54-3 k/bb ratio in the AL?

GAWDDAMN UMPIRES/Pete

Well, the 16 k's in his last outing sure helps

Thank god we missed out on Beltran.

NEED ANOTHER GEM TONIGHT CY

God, Young looks like a Neanderthal

But thats OK with a 0.78 Era.

LMAO

Young is 6' 10" Damn !

****ing pornstache ripping off a triple.

ellsbury / gardner are gonna be the deshields / choo this series

just saying

those guys are both all-stars this year

What's the biggest ball park in the AL East? Toronto?

nice ****ing pitching ... let's get outta this

That would be my guess. Not sure what TB's dimensions are like without looking.

LMAO

Ryan doesn't want to say porn stache

Way to work around the triple CY

I think it's hilarious that Young can pipe down 85 MPH fastballs and the hitters just can't pick them up

fascinating

CY SHUTS THEM DOWN

all we gotta do is get Jacoby and Gardner out and we'll be ok ...

Oh, forgot about TB...

Point is, in looking at Tex's 11 HR's, I'm telling my wife that when you play a shit ton of games in yards like Baltimore and Boston it's a lot easier to have 11 HR's.

If Gordon, Hos and Moose played in the AL East I would bet they would be close to if not in double digits already. I mean we haven't really played in a small park yet this year.

Isn't Tropicana tiny?

Didn't Montgomery give his theory? About being 2 feet closer to home because of his extended delivery

Well yeah, that's definitely it ... just funny to me

take some pitches on this guy and work him...like to get his count up and get him out

Is the broadcast stuttering and what not for anyone else?

The other teams look like they're swinging at a whiffle ball

Let's get this one boys.....late to the party

Where's the little Yorkie dog in the OP?!?!

The guy throws nothing but strikes

Its still too early to be definitive, but I'm starting to believe in CY as our #4/5

MOOSE!

Too easy for Moose.

Mooooose

MOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE with a 2 bagger

Moose!

Moose!!

hah, I'll do that on Sunday. (I'm not doing tomorrow's game thread, btw. I'll be at the game)

Moose tacos!!!

I know...have to go into 2-strike mode a little bit early on....

Yeah I'd guess Tampa is the biggest too. Toronto's dimensions aren't anything too unusual.

Moose has pretty much eliminated the shift against him

LoCain!!!!

Yesss

Cain!!!

LOOOOOCAAIIIN

Moose 1st
Cain 2nd

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