I love the ballpark when it rains. I love rain in general, but at the K it’s especially sweet. The rain reduces the crowd and deadens the din from the pregame nonsense. It cools the air. The delays it causes are perfect for reading a book or just staring into space for a little while. And though it may sound like my usual, cynical crap, the Royals are less likely to lose when they aren’t playing.
I also love a doubleheader. It’s twice the baseball for the same price. The crowd never seems to know just how to react, with a lot of people coming in way late in game one or leaving way early in game two. It’s fun to see two games back to back, and if the first one doesn’t go well then there’s always the second.
Sadly, the first one didn’t go well. The Twins scored once in the first and twice in the fifth. They managed at least one base runner in every inning except the last two. That makes it sound somewhat more dismal than it actually was. Will Smith pitched a good game, and Mike Moustakas made a couple of dramatic diving stops. If we’d put any offense together, we might have won this one.
But of course we didn’t. A single here, a single there. Moustakas came around to score on a string of singles in the seventh, but that was it.
At least we got Moostakas antlers out of it. The antlers themselves were kinda cool, not the cheap foam things I’d been expecting.
The box score: TWINS (3) AT ROYALS (1) TWINS AB R H BI ROYALS AB R H BI Darin Mastroianni 4 1 1 0 Lorenzo Cain 4 0 1 0 Jamey Carroll 4 0 3 0 Alcides Escobar 4 0 0 0 Josh Willingham 3 1 0 0 Alex Gordon 3 0 1 0 Justin Morneau 2 0 1 2 Billy Butler 4 0 1 0 Ryan Doumit 4 0 1 1 Mike Moustakas 4 1 1 0 Chris Parmelee 4 0 2 0 Brayan Pena 4 0 1 0 Trevor Plouffe 4 0 1 0 Jeff Francoeur 3 0 0 0 Matt Carson 4 0 0 0 Eric Hosmer 4 0 1 0 Pedro Florimon 4 1 1 0 Johnny Giavotella 3 0 1 1 TOTALS 33 3 10 3 TOTALS 33 1 7 1 TWINS 100 020 000 -- 3 ROYALS 000 000 100 -- 1 LOB--TWINS 8, ROYALS 7. 2B--Justin Morneau, Chris Parmelee. HBP--Jeff Francoeur. SACF--Justin Morneau. SACB--Jamey Carroll. SB--Josh Willingham. TWINS IP H R ER BB SO HR Cole De Vries 6 2-3 7 1 1 0 3 0 Alex Burnett 0 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 0 Jared Burton 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 Glen Perkins 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 ROYALS Will Smith 6 9 3 3 1 4 0 Vin Mazzaro 3 1 0 0 2 2 0 SO--Justin Morneau, Ryan Doumit (2), Matt Carson, Chris Parmelee, Darin Mastroianni, Jeff Francoeur, Alcides Escobar, Eric Hosmer, Mike Moustakas. BB--Josh Willingham, Justin Morneau, Darin Mastroianni, Alex Gordon. LOCATION: The K CONDITION: Damp WEATHER: Raining Buck seat: Nobody Guard: None Anthem: Okay Umpires H: Diaz 1: Ripperger 2: Schrieber 3: Everitt Time: 3:31 Temp: 77
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