Today in Surprise
The Royals finished up a home-and-home-and-home with the Rangers by losing the finale 5-3.
The good:
-- Cal Pickering's strange grand slam in the 6th - he was called out for passing Justin Huber at 1st. Can't remember ever seeing that happen.
-- Ruben Gotay had 3 more hits.
-- Denny Bautista struck out 4 in 2 innings of work.
The bad:
-- Snakebitten Appier was smashed in the shoulder with a line drive in the 1st inning. The baseball gods are dropping hints left and right - time to call it a career, Ape. It was a good one.
-- J.P. Howell struggled in his inning of work.
The beautiful:
-- Ken Harvey takes the collar! (Just kidding. Sorta.)
Next up: Zack Greinke makes his first spring training start against Milwaukee.
posted by DL @ 8:48 PM
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2 Comments:
I was actually relieved that Appier grabbing his shoulder was in reaction to being whacked by a line drive, because I viewed that picture without a caption the first time. I thought for sure the Royals had their first pitching-induced shoulder injury just three days into the season.
While I agree that it's probably time for Kevin to call it quits, I think he can be somewhat useful to the Royals out of the bullpen. His slider's still a plus pitch.
Yea, I hope Appier can contribute in some meaningful way. Just seems like he suffers every imaginable or unimaginable setback.
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