Ugh, will winter never end? Though it wasn’t quite as icy this afternoon as it was earlier in the season, Amy missed the game thanks to a respiratory infection. At least she didn’t have to sit through School Day, which turned out to be not quite as bad as I feared.
The game itself was actually fairly good. Breaking with the current trend, they won a close, low-scoring game. Vargas did an excellent job, getting eight strikeouts against one of the best offenses in the majors. When he got tired he threw one bad pitch that sadly resulted in a two-run homer. But otherwise we kept them scoreless.
The moment of the game came early, when hot-hitting Troy Tulowitzki removed himself from the lineup with an ejection for arguing a called third strike, one of those lingering things that set the umpire off after the player returned to the dugout. In the shortstop’s defense, it did appear to be a bad call. And the home plate umpire was screwy the whole game, later calling Nori Aoki out for leaving the base line (which he didn’t) on what would have been an excellent bunt single.
The player of the game was Mike Moustakis. He’s been in a terrible slump at the plate this year, and one of the Star’s squawk boxes is agitating for his ouster to Omaha. But he hit well this afternoon, including a bases-clearing double that gave the Royals all three of their runs.
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