Battle for the AL Central -|- Indians @ Royals -|- August 29th, 30th, and 31st

[Stark]

Battle for the AL Central -- 2014 Series #43

Cleveland Indians (68-64) vs. Kansas City Royals (74-59)

Season Standings
Corey (35-26); .574
Stark (33-38); .465


Live from Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri

Pitching Matchups

Game #1 -- August 29th, 2014 at 8:10 PM

Danny Salazar (4-6); 4.52 ERA; 80 K vs. Jason Vargas (10-6); 3.17 ERA; 102 K

Game #2 -- August 30th, 2014 at 7:10 PM

Trevor Bauer (5-7); 4.18 ERA; 114 K vs. James Shields (12-7); 3.45 ERA; 146 K

Game #3 -- August 31st, 2014 at 8:10 PM

T.J. House (2-3); 4.18 ERA; 53 K vs. Danny Duffy (8-11); 2.47 ERA; 102 K

Projected Lineups
-| Please note lineups are a projection done at the beginning of the series and may not be entirely accurate for all games -|

Cleveland

Bourn - Ramirez - Brantley - Santana - Kipnis - Chisenhall - Walters - Dickerson - Perez

Kansas City

Aoki - Escobar - Gordon - Butler - Perez - Willingham - Cain - Moustakas - Colon

​

 

[Ohio]

Lets get itttttt

 

[Stark]

Twins just took an 8-5 lead over Kansas City in the 10th inning. Looking like they'll hopefully fall tonight so we'd be 5.5 back.

EDIT: Make it 10-5! As Hawk Harrelson would say "that ballgame is... ova"

 

[shoes22]

We're in striking distance of them!!
But we'll need...wait for it...a sweep.

 

[Amherstcavsfan]

Those pitching matchups are really unfavorable for the Tribe.

 

[LandofClevesMan]

A series win would be humungous. Bad matchups plus were on the road. Gotta keep the faith though! We take 2/3!

 

[Ruken]

Yikes those pitching matchup a. Let's hope the offense shows up


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[NorthCoastBias]

I'm sure ESPN was thrilled to get household names Danny Duffy and T.J. House for their Sunday Night broadcast

 

[macbdog]

Duffy should be more well known amongst baseball fans than he is. TJ should be.... um... we like TJ.

 

[Steve_424]

Yan Gomes is expected to play tonight

 

[Frank Stallone]

Alright nice start

 

[Derek]

Pile on. Don't stop.

 

[Derek]

If you only ever watched Moustakas play against Cleveland, you'd think he was a perennial All-Star/Gold Glove 3B.

 

[Stark]

Shaw has been very effective despite his high usage rate.

 

[Stark]

Santana's 22nd bomb all but wraps this one up. 6-0 Tribe in the 9th.