After the Royals split a 4 game series with the Yankees, they now get to host the Boston Redsox.....Boston comes into Kansas city at the bottom of their division as Kc comes into todays game looking for their 3rd win at home this season. Top story for now going into this series is the fact that Mike Aviles, who played in Kansas City for 4 years while batting a .285 average, is coming back to town. Boston 11-16 looking to get their first win in 5 tries after losing the last two of their series with Oakland, and being swept By the Oriels in their most recent series. So lets go ahead and move on with the match-ups .
Tonight on the mound for the Royals you have Jonathan Sanchez who will be hosting Felix Doubront of the Redsox. Sanchez is coming off of a win in his most recent outing in Detroit where he posted 5 scoreless innings, his record is now 1-1 on the season with an ERA of 5.24. For Doubront he enters tonights game at 1-1 as well with a 5.19 ERA. look for an exciting game tonight while once again its two bottom feeders in their divisions going head to head with both pitchers who are ok. So look for each team to go back and fourth in this one.
Tomorrow, Tuesday, May 8, 2012, you have Danny Duffy playing host to Bostons Daniel Bard. Duffy is 2-2 on the season with an ERA of 3.57, not to mention in his last time on the hill, he earned a win against the yanks, going 5 1/3 innings and notching up 6 strike outs. on the other side, Bard comes in at 2-3 with an ERA of 4.38, his last start against the A`s wasn't anything to celebrate about, as he allowed 4 runs in 8 innings with only 1 strike out. again look for another close game as each pitcher is doing, well, ok at this point in the season.
wrapping up the series on Wednesday, may 9, 2012 you have Bruce Chen taking on Jon Lester. Both of these pitchers are struggling after having ok seasons last year. As Chen enters this game at 0-4 with a 4.98 ERA and Lester comes in at 1-2 with an ERA of 4.62. Chen`s last time out he did great until Manager Ned host allowed him to pitch after 5 solid innings and a decent 6th, and then in the 7th he fatigued after just 2/3 of the inning and allowed four runs to score. As for Lester, he comes off a 13 inning game in which he lost to the Oriels. his team gave him 2 leads in the game, but Lester couldn't hang on as he gave up his second loss of the season.
I have each game of this series being close, but overall I have the Royals winning out the series 2 games to 1. The reason for this, well, The Royals Just came off a loss to the Yankees, losing 10-1. Then the young guns for the Royals are starting to find their hitting stride and they know how to win at home now. So tune into FS Kansas city at 7:10 to watch your Royals take on the Redsox.
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