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Royals Pitcher Zack Grienke Gets SI Cover This Week! Goes For Record 0.00ERA
TraceOneInfinite:
--- Quote from: Knuckles on April 29, 2009, 01:56:35 PM ---
The Jays hitting won't stay number one forever but I still can see them top ten by the end of the year.
I'm not too confident about tonight's game, but he can't keep this 0.00 ERA going forever so tonight's as good a night as any for him to let up 2-3 runs. Brian Tallet is pitching for a Jays and is doing a pretty good job so far (2.95 ERA, 1.09 WHIP) filling in for all the injuries to the starters, plus the Royals can't hit. So I can see the Jays pull out a 3-2 win. Either way, I don't see many runs tonight.
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So far in the series I haven't been that impressed with the Jays hitting. Obviously as your teams record and statistics indicate, you guys can hit; but you guy only got 1 lousy hit off Brian Bannister in the first game of the series. Brian Bannister is a guy who couldn't even make our roster after spring training. He was only called up around a week ago because we had nobody else to pitch. He's the 5th starter. He spends every year bouncing back and forth from the Minors to the Majors. And he one-hit you guys!
Then in the second game of the series your team hit well, but that was only because Gil Mesh was injured. He had a bad back, but he's one of those "grind it out" kind of pitchers that won't tell the manager when he's hurt because he thinks he has to tough it out. He's our workhorse in the rotation.
So this game the Blue-Jays will really have to show me something. If they get 3 runs against Zack like you projected, then definitely I will give it up to you. But I don't see it. I think the only way the Royals lose is if our ballpen loses the game for us (Trey Hillman doesn't know how to manage a bullpen). But I don't see any way Zack goes down with a loss.
...by the way, was your starting pitcher we beat in the first game of the series any good?
Lunatic:
wait, this guy hasn't allowed a run yet? :o
TraceOneInfinite:
--- Quote from: Lunatic 63 on April 29, 2009, 02:45:15 PM ---wait, this guy hasn't allowed a run yet? :o
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Nope... going for a record tonight
Twentytwofifty:
--- Quote from: Prescribed By Infinite on April 29, 2009, 02:31:59 PM ---So far in the series I haven't been that impressed with the Jays hitting. Obviously as your teams record and statistics indicate, you guys can hit; but you guy only got 1 lousy hit off Brian Bannister in the first game of the series. Brian Bannister is a guy who couldn't even make our roster after spring training. He was only called up around a week ago because we had nobody else to pitch. He's the 5th starter. He spends every year bouncing back and forth from the Minors to the Majors. And he one-hit you guys!
Then in the second game of the series your team hit well, but that was only because Gil Mesh was injured. He had a bad back, but he's one of those "grind it out" kind of pitchers that won't tell the manager when he's hurt because he thinks he has to tough it out. He's our workhorse in the rotation.
So this game the Blue-Jays will really have to show me something. If they get 3 runs against Zack like you projected, then definitely I will give it up to you. But I don't see it. I think the only way the Royals lose is if our ballpen loses the game for us (Trey Hillman doesn't know how to manage a bullpen). But I don't see any way Zack goes down with a loss.
...by the way, was your starting pitcher we beat in the first game of the series any good?
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I really think 3 runs off him is the best case scenario, I certainly wouldn't be shocked if the Jays look like they did on Monday.
Any good? Tough to say, he has a lot of potential but he's getting rocked so far this year with the only real bright spot is that he's striking a lot of guys out (9.12 K/9). It's the first time he started the year with the team. If there wasn't 4 starting pitchers on the DL I wouldn't see any reason why he's be one of the five starters.
Lunatic:
--- Quote from: Prescribed By Infinite on April 29, 2009, 03:07:14 PM ---
--- Quote from: Lunatic 63 on April 29, 2009, 02:45:15 PM ---wait, this guy hasn't allowed a run yet? :o
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Nope... going for a record tonight
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then it'll be fun for my Jays to end it 8)
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