Jake

Kay's inability to stop the running game has been pretty influential in this one

Batted ball luck for all!

Little batted ball luck for Miguel here.

Kay just feels like a guy who would have taken 60 seconds between pitches in the pre-clock era.

It was definitely a damaging error, although it's hard to say exactly how the inning goes afterwards since there was a lot of baseball still left to play and KC is clearly seeing Kay very well.

Wild pitch gets the run in there

FWIW, I don't think they were turning 2 on that play Colson botched. Fast batter-runner and the ball took a beat to get there.

Kay still in pole position for "hardest pitcher to watch" award

Braden has looked really good catching fly balls so far. Beating his scouting report in that regard.

No problem, Kay's pitching style is very amenable to the defense giving up free baserunners

Colson's had a few of those lately.

Nice looking swing but I think Braden caught it off the end. Still happy to see him get a little lift to the pull side.

Were Ishbia's kids wearing Tigers uniforms? Only glimpsed it.

Kyle's been burned by that same pitch in two consecutive ABs

Double up on that curveball and see what happens buddy

Royals put good wood on some fairly well-located pitches that inning. I have a suspicion that Kay tips his pitches.

What a stinker of a season he had after some reason for optimism going into the year. Saw him get picked off 2B in his A+ debut last night.

The thing about Fedde vs. Sandlin is if there's any uncertainty about whether you might need both of them later, there's only one of them you can temporarily remove from the team and that's Sandlin. Probably won't hurt David to have his workload managed a bit as well.

I'm trying to prepare myself mentally for seeing Roch post a .700 OPS in Kannapolis in August.

That's a funny way to spell Vahn

I feel like Shomon has got him in a pretty weird state where he's getting a little bit of power production that he didn't have last year but it has his whole approach teetering on disaster. The overall numbers are basically okay but as you are seeing aesthetically it's a lot less steady than the guy we saw last year.

Optimistic about prospects? I thought you knew better than that!

Baldwin has a lot of work to do to keep up with Meidroth or even make the team next year. Brooks has no defensive position, Meidroth is a glove-first player who is likely to out-hit Brooks.

Easy to see why Meidroth swung at the first one. He was looking to get the ball in the air and knew with a sinkerballer on the mound you better take advantage of anything high. It was (barely) a strike but he clearly wasn't ready for how much it ran in on him so he barely got enough of it for it to carry out of play. Then 3-1 it's lower and again the sinker does its thing and bores in on him. In hindsight, should have been taking on anything inside from Armstrong given Chase's and Armstrong's tendencies. He probably just didn't think it was going to be inside. Of course, if he hit it 5 feet left or right they're probably still playing.