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Final: Giants 7, Royals 1, World Series 68
DEJAN KOVACEVIC, DK ON PITTSBURGH SPORTS Getting ready for first pitch of Major League Baseball’s 110th World Series … Game 1: San Francisco Giants vs. Kansas City Royals, 8:07 p.m., Kauffman Stadium Pitchers: LHP Madison Bumgarner (1-0, 1.72) vs. RHP James Shields (0-0, 7.20) TV, radio: Fox (national), 970 ESPN Online: Live box score / Multimedia / Official game notes
Oh my….baseball thread….let the fun begin!!!
Re-sign Russ!!!
At first, I questioned 110, then realized the strike of ’94!
Royals will win!
I guarantee it!
I hope you’re right, Dom!
Me, too!
Go Royals! I love the underdogs!
Maybe that explains why I’m a pirates fan…
Giants
Madison Bumgarner (L)
1. Gregor Blanco (L) CF
2. Joe Panik (L) 2B
3. Buster Posey (R) C
4. Pablo Sandoval (S) 3B
5. Hunter Pence (R) RF
6. Brandon Belt (L) 1B
7. Michael Morse (R) DH
8. Travis Ishikawa (L) LF
9. Brandon Crawford (L) SS
Royals
James Shields (R)
1. Alcides Escobar (R) SS
2. Nori Aoki (L) CF
3. Lorenzo Cain (R) RF
4. Eric Hosmer (L) 1B
5. Billy Butler (R) DH
6. Alex Gordon (L) LF
7. Salvador Perez (R) C
8. Omar Infante (R) 2B
9. Mike Moustakas (L) 3B
Giants in 5.
Oshie, ya think? I know Bumgarner should be tough tonight…
I did predict a Giants sweep in 2012 on the previous incarnation of this blog. :). My first big job was in Olathe, KS. I moonlighted at then Royals Stadium. Those people were the salt of the Earth. But, they are managed by the worst manager this side of Dusty Baker.
well, it will be interesting! and worse than Dusty??? or as bad as…that’s BAD!
I’ll echo this. Pitching wins.
they have an advantage with Bumgarner
Lets hope in say 3 years we are speaking the same with Glasnow
Classy DK to add this thread with the locals out of it. Jal, thanks for the lineups. Rooting for a seven game series.
All major championship series or games will have game posts: NFL, NHL, MLB, NCAA football and basketball.
What about the NBA…Nah, I’m just messin’ with ya. I had you all going though, right?
Still no Buckeye threads.
Maybe this weekend.
I believe you mean a Penn State thread, Lucky.
I don’t think I’ll say anything negative about PSU. Last season, after berating the basketball team, they beat OSU twice.
Miscreants unite!!
The Royals annoy me. I admit it, I’m jealous, but they annoy me nonetheless. Go Giants.
Bochy and the Giants staff and pen won’t be afraid to put a little scare into Lorenzo Cain.
I hope they annoy the Giants as well. Go Royals!
I feel like I should be rooting for the Royals. But, I just can’t. I keep thinking that should be us.
I’m still bummed.
How many days till Spring Training
Where’s Groatie when ya need him???
Probably stirring something up, somewhere
120 days…give or take.
Good lord, it’s an authentic recording artist singing the Anthem and not an American Idol creation!
You are slipping with the corporate synergy, Fox.
Jerry Meals working the plate for Game 1, then he’ll be the replay ump for Game 3 and on. Good Lord.
Posts crossed Milo
Jerry Meals behind the plate? It’s the WS and Jerry Meals is behind the plate. Shame on MLB.
LEt’s bury the hatchet with Meals. He just made that one mistake.
Good idea. I say right between the shoulder blades.
At least Meals won’t let it go any longer than he deems necessary.
Who is the guy in the front row with the “Marlins” jacket on? Seems like an odd thing.
Ike Davis.
We can only hope.
Looks like Big Game Shields has been a big shame this post season.
Story of his career, unfortunately, Lucky. He was not good with Tampa, either.
Good one.
GIJ?
I was happy to hear Bochy say at the pregame presser that the time off was needed, especially for his bullpen. Refreshing stuff. That rust argument never held water with me. It’s the World Series! You better be jacked to play in it, no matter how many days you sat.
It doesn’t make me feel much better as a Bucs fan, but at least Bumgarner seems to toy with everyone in the playoffs.
Team with home field advantage has won 25 of the last 31 WS. Seems perfectly reasonable to let something so important be decided by the All Star Game.
The Budmeister will be gone soon
Widespread Panik has ensued.
Hunter Strickland is pitching in the world series. How cool is that?
I tried to watch this game, and really wanted to. Couldn’t stay awake. I’ll blame it on working outside for a bit after work.
Did see the Royals had bases loaded at one point, and couldn’t score.
Don’t worry. I think it’s still going on.
The score would have to be eleventy-two to 1 by now…
Haha! Baseball ought to adopt a rule like curling has that allows for each team to finish their game during an alloted time under pain of severe penalty!
Is that how it’s worded for real?
No. I’ve seen some local rules around here written in that verbiage, but official rule is not written in this manner.
I stopped watching in the 5th inning…first real SNOOZER of the postseason.
Royals in six!
Giants will win next time Bumgarner pitches, so you may be right, Dom lol
Tough crowd. Hard to write off a team that has been 9-1 in the playoffs. Bumgarner may have his streak interrupted next time, too. Raul O. will gather the congregation and breathe some fire.
In the hope that I am in the correct thread, thinking this site was an open forum when paying $24 for freedom of speech, I`m happy to know that my posts, like the ones yesterday, won`t be deleted because I was in a football discussion page. I felt like I raised some good topics
about the Pirates, free agency, Russ Martin and exactly how ravaged the Pirates will be after free agency signings. Huntington started “strong” by signing minor league veteran Preston Guilmet from the Orioles as the first of several expected moves to bolster the bullpen.
The Bucs have 15 mil to sign Super Russ, but the free agent market value for him could be as high as 50 mil. So long, Russ. The old baseball adage says that a team needs to be strong up the middle to succeed. The Bucs were strong with Martin, Mercer, Walker and Cutch. Losing
Martin will hurt big time, with no credible back-up to fill in. The other big concern I had was what the starting pitching staff will look like. Despite his terrible record, Liriano posted numbers very similar to 2013. Volquez was a pleasant surprise. We`ll see who`s left come
opening day. It feels a bit like `92-`93, when everyone split except maybe Jay Bell, Jeff King, and The Rock.
Wow…
The Royals obviously knew it was going to be a tough game 1. Bumgarner is having a career year. Game 2 should be a close one, and I like the Royals to even it up. They have a few guys with great career numbers vs. Peavy, and the rookie Ventura has good numbers at home.
Great job, Royals. I think Pirate fans can relate to the Royals many years of terrible teams and records. You almost have to give San Fran another win for a game not even played yet, if they have to face Bumgarner again. Game 5 or 6. He`s not infallible, but hard to rough up.