A Royal Mess (PART II!)

The calling from MLB.com made me extremely thankful for Jon. The game is always harder to follow with them, but I will admit that the game wasn't exactly one to follow.

By the third inning, there were five errors--we had three of them. And just after the third one that Aurilia made throwing, Aurilia watched a ball die in fair territory. The end of the inning was a complete annihilation for making a comeback earlier. What used to be a 3-0 lead for K.C. (three runs given up by Cain in only 1 2/3 innings, by the way), a lead that was nullified just a half inning earlier by merely two hits, became a 7-3 monstrosity. The color guy had the gall to say, "And that's all the scoring that's happened so far." Mm-hmm. He was right. The final was horrendous. I couldn't even keep track of the score, and the announcers mostly ignored it. Hey, why not: this is exactly the kind of spring game I remember from last year. It's training; some even think the training is too long now, anyway. Why not just mess around? That's a lot more fun.

At least Doug Greenwald made a good historical connection between having a team with both "Downs" and "Uribe" on the team; of course, back then, it was Kelly and Jose, and we were a much bigger threat to the NL...

FINAL
S.F. - 5
K.C. - 14

The Boys Who Showed Up: Practically N/A

A Royal Mess

Randy Johnson is slowly figuring out what all the other quality pitchers have on our team. You can pitch quite well; but when you do you can be quite sure that the offensive production and the fielding will tag-team to help you lose low-era games.

At least Sanchez got some work; he'll need it due to Lowry's forearm, which apparently is still twinged. (For the record, let it be known that when Noah injured himself last year at this time, popping that tendon, I knew it was a career-breaker.) Most the rest of the pitching happened to be people I'd never heard of, except for Sadler. Hence, the final score (which the announcer for MLB.com sped over at the end of the game, not without reason).

The single greatest highlight: Posey showed for an AB in the 9th. He made a unnoticeable out, but that's not the point. The point was that even on a day like today, that single AB reminded me of all the new boys getting ABs and pitch-ins so far, already. It is the best part about our new ownership: Hope ariseth in the farm system, and it's actually getting a shot in ST right away.

FINAL
K.C. - 6
S.F. - 1