chw42

Ummm...are you allowed to kick the ball?

Perez vs. Sox: .309/.324/.647 Perez vs. Indians: .159/.245/.364 The pitches we throw him are pretty similar to how the Indians pitch him. Around 36-38% fastballs (let's not pretend the Indians don't throw him any fastballs). But here's the difference (first is Indians, 2nd is Sox) We throw him a lot more pitches near the outside black as opposed to off the plate and low. His hot/cold zones vs. the Sox is all red whereas he only has 2 hot zones vs. the Indians. It's all about execution.

I think the Perez homer woke Dylan up

Awful base running from Eloy

Perez thrives on hitting bad pitches. Yet we keep trying to pitch around him with pitches that are too close to the plate. Those are basically strikes to Perez.

You can argue none of the pitches he hit homers on were actually bad pitches. None of them were middle/middle pitches. 2 were pretty much on the black. Lopez's slider yesterday hung a little, but was out of the zone.

Of course the Royals don't even hit a ball out of the infield after Perez's homer.

Yeah that's not even a bad pitch. How the hell does he keep doing this?

Holy shit he murdered that

Cease has no fastball command right now.

Singer looking way better after spending a month on the IL.

Well that's not good... His shoulder doesn't seem to be holding up.

Cause his velocity was down by quite a bit and he was giving up line drives right at people. He was probably on a pitch count too given he hasn't thrown more than 80 pitches in any outing this year in the Majors.

Holy shit that ball was killed. Nice win, even though it probably shouldn't have that close.

Wow Bummer got through an 8th inning drama free.

3-1 and that's the best Leury could do?

Eh it was a good borderline pitch. I think they needed to make Perez at least think there was a chance he'd get a fastball.

That's how you gotta pitch Perez. Well done Kimbrel.

I doubt Kimbrel in the 7th will work.

Jesus Christ Mendick...come the fuck on.

Kimbrel in the 7th? WTF?

KC basically got Payamps for free from Toronto.

I swear the 5 or 6 run lead is a curse for this team. If we go up by that amount early in the game it's almost a guarantee our bullpen will find a way to make the game close.

Why is he still in?!? How the hell do you keep him in after he gave up another HR on a pitch right down the pipe?

And then we threw him a hanging slider and a low fastball in 2 of his 3 ABs.