Series Thread: Kansas City Royals vs San Francisco Giants

[Fountain City Blues]

Perez appears to have come back from the dead with all of these days off. Would swap him and Moose at this point.

 

[bksballer89]

Ventura over Peavy might be as big of an advantage, if not even more so than Bumgarner over Shields right now. Guthrie pitching game 7 would be just... well, my head would explode in rage.

Peavy pitched well in game 2 if I remember correctly. It wasn't until they took him out when the floodgates were open.

Either way I think the Royals need to end this in 6. The Giants are throwing Bumgarner out there in 2 of the final 3 games (if necessary).

Guthrie pitching in a game 7 sounds similar to Kevin Brown pitching G7 in the ALCS for my yanks back in 04.

 

[mr.hockey4242]

Peavy pitched well in game 2 if I remember correctly. It wasn't until they took him out when the floodgates were open.

Either way I think the Royals need to end this in 6. The Giants are throwing Bumgarner out there in 2 of the final 3 games (if necessary).

Guthrie pitching in a game 7 sounds similar to Kevin Brown pitching G7 in the ALCS for my yanks back in 04.

Peavy was bad first two innings. Perfect next 3. Bad for two batters. Then game fell apart with bullpen.

No way Bumgarner starts game 7 on two days rest lol.

 

[Fountain City Blues]

Peavy pitched well in game 2 if I remember correctly. It wasn't until they took him out when the floodgates were open.

Either way I think the Royals need to end this in 6. The Giants are throwing Bumgarner out there in 2 of the final 3 games (if necessary).

Guthrie pitching in a game 7 sounds similar to Kevin Brown pitching G7 in the ALCS for my yanks back in 04.

Screams bullpen game.

 

[Robotech]

Shit, I hope Strickland doesn't do anything to piss anyone off.

 

[Fountain City Blues]

Good game, Giants fans. I still think this goes 7 games- hopefully with a Royals victory.

 

[bksballer89]

First series all playoffs long where both teams won 2 games at least

 

[Robotech]

Good game, Giants fans. I still think this goes 7 games- hopefully with a Royals victory.

It feels destined for 7 now, with Bumgarner winning tomorrow, Peavy getting smashed in Game 6, and a wild Game 7 with all hands on deck.

 

[Fountain City Blues]

Oh, and :

 

[Fountain City Blues]

It feels destined for 7 now, with Bumgarner winning tomorrow, Peavy getting smashed in Game 6, and a wild Game 7 with all hands on deck.

Definitely seems like the most likely outcome based off of statistics.

 

[Ties5o11]

What a great World Series so far! Go Giants, but the Royals are cool to. I would probably be rooting for them over any NL team other than SF.

 

[Robotech]

What a great World Series so far! Go Giants, but the Royals are cool to. I would probably be rooting for them over any NL team other than SF.

I usually stay loyal to the NL World Series representative (except the Dodgers, of course), but yeah, a great Cinderella story like the Royals is hard to root against.

 

[Ties5o11]

I usually stay loyal to the NL World Series representative (except the Dodgers, of course), but yeah, a great Cinderella story like the Royals is hard to root against.

HA! Thats funny. The Dodgers representing the NL. LOL!!

 

[calsnowskier]

HA! Thats funny. The Dodgers representing the NL. LOL!!

Hey, it happened in '88...

 

[msgkings322]

The giants really suck ass. Just goes to show, make the playoffs and anything can happen.

Second sentence is correct

 

[calsnowskier]

Oh, and :

LOL

Love it!

Well done.

 

[calsnowskier]

I was basically just saying that for once in my opinion the Giants actually didn't get lucky. They are actually squaring balls up and getting two out hits.

How they scored their first run today is how they scored almost all post season, sometimes uglier.

Royals need to find a way to get to Bum tomorrow and Shields needs to not suck for once.

Did you consider the Royals first run in Game 3 "ugly" or lucky? Or was that GREAT small-ball?

I personally thought that both runs were things of beauty, and is why I LOVE NL ball.

 

[Fountain City Blues]

Did you consider the Royals first run in Game 3 "ugly" or lucky? Or was that GREAT small-ball?

I personally thought that both runs were things of beauty, and is why I LOVE NL ball.

I always thought of it as exploiting mistakes or opportunities. Both of these teams do that quite well- and have some luck too; that's why they're in the WS. Both teams have a very "NL" vibe about it- often to my personal frustration at times, but it works.

 

[calsnowskier]

I always thought of it as exploiting mistakes or opportunities. Both of these teams do that quite well- and have some luck too; that's why they're in the WS. Both teams have a very "NL" vibe about it- often to my personal frustration at times, but it works.

That's small ball. Put the pressure on the defense and pitching. It won't work every time, and it isn't the right strategy against an OK to bad pitching/defense team. Both if these teams have stellar D and good pitching, so small ball is the way to go.

Exciting baseball. I love it.

 

[HammerDown]

Who was the fool who posted this last night?