| Final - 7.19.2009 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tampa Bay Rays | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 0 |
| Kansas City Royals | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 0 |
Trey Hillman's stubborn refusal to adapt or change makes him the perfect Royal. Old-school baseball doesn't make much sense anymore, given that it's key component, the magical closer, produces more losses than wins.
The Royals never just mess up. No, they fail, then they fail again, then they fail again. They keep failing because they never think they're wrong. I swear, if you scripted the last three months,...
| FINAL | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tampa Bay | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 0 |
| Kansas City | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 0 |
| Tampa Bay Rays | |||||||
| Hitters | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | AVG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B.J. Upton, CF | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .246 |
| Carl Crawford, LF | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .311 |
| Evan Longoria, 3B | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | .280 |
| Carlos Pena, 1B | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | .226 |
| Ben Zobrist, 2B | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .305 |
| Pat Burrell, DH | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .233 |
| Gabe Gross, RF | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | .276 |
| Dioner Navarro, C | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .217 |
| Willy Aybar, PH | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .288 |
| Michel Hernandez, C | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .266 |
| Jason Bartlett, SS | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .345 |
| Totals | 36 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 11 | |
| Pitchers | IP | H | R | ER | BB | K | HR | ERA | WP | PC-ST |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt Garza | 5 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3.80 | 1 | 101-61 |
| Lance Cormier | 1.1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2.74 | 0 | 24-19 |
| Grant Balfour (W, 4-1) | 1.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4.57 | 0 | 18-8 |
| Randy Choate (, 0-0) | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.76 | 0 | 8-6 |
| J.P. Howell (S, 5-2; S,9) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1.97 | 0 | 15-10 |
| Kansas City Royals | |||||||
| Hitters | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | AVG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| David DeJesus, LF | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .258 |
| Willie Bloomquist, CF | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .277 |
| Billy Butler, 1B | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .294 |
| Mark Teahen, 3B | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .295 |
| Jose Guillen, RF | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .243 |
| Ryan Freel, RF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .182 |
| Mike Jacobs, DH | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .225 |
| John Buck, ph,dh | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .209 |
| Alberto Callaspo, 2B | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .299 |
| Miguel Olivo, C | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .244 |
| Yuniesky Betancourt, SS | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .246 |
| Totals | 37 | 3 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 7 | |
| Pitchers | IP | H | R | ER | BB | K | HR | ERA | WP | PC-ST |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luke Hochevar | 6.1 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 5.09 | 2 | 97-67 |
| Jamey Wright (, 0-3) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4.87 | 0 | 20-9 |
| John Bale | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5.63 | 0 | 12-6 |
| Roman Colon | 1.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4.42 | 0 | 22-13 |
| Ron Mahay | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4.35 | 0 | 15-9 |
