Snooze and Lose: Royals 6, Tigers 1

by Ian Casselberry on Apr 24, 2009 11:00 PM EDT in Detroit Tigers News

If you listened to Mario Impemba and Rod Allen consistently complain about the Tigers' late departure out of Anaheim last night and early arrival in Kansas City, you would think the team was barely awake tonight against Zack Greinke. Surely, the Tigers weren't the first major league team to ever fly out late and arrive near dawn, but a full eight hours of sleep might not have helped, anyway.

In any case, Greinke made sure the Tigers would get back to their hotel rooms early. He zoomed through the Tigers' lineup, giving up just three hits in a 97-pitch, complete game performance. And the whole thing took just two hours and six minutes.

Detroit did, however, become the first team to score a run against him this season, but thanks to a throwing error from Mike Aviles, the run was unearned. So Greinke still gets to carry that "zero point zero" into his next start.

Whimper:

Did we mention Detroit's lineup got only three hits? And two of those were by Gerald Laird.

Rick Porcello wasn't bad, yielding four hits in six innings of work. Unfortunately, he served up two homers that resulted in three Royals runs. (And Greinke didn't need any more run support than that.) It also must be noted that one of those K.C. homers was hit by Alberto Callaspo. You know how many homers Callaspo had coming into tonight? Zero. For his career.

As was mentioned in tonight's GameThread, Porcello has now allowed home runs to Ronny Cedeno and Alberto Callaspo in his three major league starts. He makes slap-hitting middle infielders look like sluggers. Nick Punto can't wait to face him when the Twins play the Tigers.

Turning Point:

Apparently, it was when the Tigers arrived in Kansas City at 5 a.m. local time this morning. Or when Greinke stepped onto the mound this evening.

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Dude, we got Greinked

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I only watched one at-bat of this game

and I saw one of our 3 hits. Wow.

OT: Whoever has Greinke in the BYB Grandy League feel free to make me an offer.

by Rob Rogacki on Apr 24, 2009 11:29 PM EDT reply actions

im convinced

greinke=this years cliff lee

i still hold out hope that the tigers should finish ahead of the royals.

by actioncuse on Apr 24, 2009 11:30 PM EDT reply actions

Snooze and lose

That’s a good one! Frankly, I also got very tired of listening to Rod and Mario’s excuses. Hope our pitchers were taking notes on how a poised an ace pitches. Laird gives it his all and he is just a pleasure to watch. When the score got to be 5-1, I shut if off and went to bed….could see the handwriting on the wall. Hope our Tigers wake up pretty soon or this will be a long season. Even at $5.00 a ticket, who wants to go see a crummy team? Come on, Tigers!

"It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone". A. Bartlett Giamatti

by densogirl on Apr 25, 2009 8:50 AM EDT reply actions

Oh, and another thing

This really bugs me. The no sleep thing. Come on, even when I was in my thirties, I still could party till 3:00am and make it to work and do just fine as long as I had caffiene. Leyland is pampering these puppies.

by densogirl on Apr 25, 2009 8:58 AM EDT reply actions

Million dollar putties at that. Where’s Timo, the sparkplug, when you need him.

by densogirl on Apr 25, 2009 9:02 AM EDT up reply actions

Well at least we didn't lose 14-0

Ouch, Toronto beat up Chicago pretty bad. So win today and we’re tied for first

by ZWC11 on Apr 25, 2009 11:00 AM EDT reply actions

embarrassed....

I benched Greinke in my main fantasy league and I feel absolutely stupid this morning.

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by Packey on Apr 25, 2009 11:57 AM EDT reply actions

Greinke's little brother, Luke

he has a little brother who went to Auburn (my team knocked him out before the 5th inning last season) and is the exact opposite of big brother: He is 0-6 in 9 starts with the Staten Island Yankees. He also shares the same birthday as me (he’s a year younger).

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by Packey on Apr 25, 2009 12:02 PM EDT up reply actions