Could someone check to see if these are signs of the Apocalypse -- D.J. Carrasco makes his second straight great start, this time against the Yankees with their $200M payroll and Emil Brown takes the Big Unit deep. The Royals slapped together their second solid game in a row tonight to take the series with New York -- it doesn't even matter what happens tomorrow night. Jeter and ARod are 0-14 in the series thus far and Emil Brown now has three straight multi-hit games. All this has happened the last two games with Sweeney doing absolutely nothing -- 0-8 to drop to .301. Berroa even came thru with 2 doubles (even if they were bloop jobs) and scored 2 runs. Carrasco gives up 4 hits and 2 walks in 6 innings but 0000000000 ER -- the start of his life, then Stemle comes in and shuts down the Evil Empire for 2 innings, allowing only 1 hit and 1 BB. MacDougal came in for the 9th and gave up a homer to Bernie Williams with 2 out and a double to Robinson Cano. I was figuring, "Oh-oh, here we go....." and then he gets Jeter looking with a nasty pitch after running the count to 3-and-2. Sweet ending. This week has given mixed blessings for Royals fans -- on the "good" side, two wins over the Yankees, at one time the Royals' archrival, and the dumping of Eli Marrero; on the "bad" side, Lima is still around and they hired Buddy Bell to manage the team. Randy Johnson may retire after giving up a hit to Joe McEwing tonight. He isn't looking dominating this season. You couldn't ask for two better nights from the Royals' pitching staff. Why can't they do this all the time? AND against a lineup that, yes, is aging but still has 8 former all-stars on it. Bernie Williams, who the Yankee fans were up in arms about last season and coming into this one, is the only one who's come to play. I think they were thinking they'd come to KC and cruise through the series. WRONG! Torre had to call a "closed-door" meeting after tonight's game, I assume to ream them out for losing to what has essentially been a AAAA team all year. Let's hope this momentum continues. Tomorrow night it's Jensen vs. Pavano, so it's possible the Royals could sweep.
01 June 2005
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Tomorrow's the sobering-up game...Royals will lose something like 9-1.
McEwing actually has a HR off Johnson during his career.
268/262/463 career line in 41ABs vs The Big Unit. Career line 254/306/360. Super Joe can do it against Randy.
Great site. I just happened upon it a couple of days ago and I love the info on the minor leagues.
Daniel, I can definitely see that coming off of Jensen. Although I'd think KC could score more than 1 off Pavano. I say 8-3 NYY.
Furious, thanks for the compliments as well as the stats on McEwing. Now what does he bring to the table the other 52 games? I just think Truby could do what McEwing is. I guess McEwing would be more flexible defensively, tho. Both of them are retreads.
Oops. Bad prediction, huh?
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