Giants at Royals, 2:00PM HST/5:00PM PT, TV: Fox
Kansas City’s rookie Yordano Ventura starts for the home team, while 13-year veteran Jake Peavy is on the hill for the visiting San Franciscans.
Insert paragraphs about “the team which goes up 2 games to none in a seven-game series wins umpty-ump percentage of the time” and blah blah blah. The Giants know that. The Royals know that. Neither team cares about it. It’s this Series they’re playing, not all those ones in the past.
That said, the Royals really would like to win at home tonight, to get the split and to get their fans excited.
Joe Maddon opted out of contract. Is Mattingly going to be spending a lot of time with his new baby???
At the main school where I work, parents serving the weekly hot lunch wore costumes. The scariest one there was a man wearing — a Giants cap.
I know him and we had a nice conversation.
I’m sure you had something to say about that hat. 😉
All good-natured.
He was relieved to get past the Cards because he has an annual golf gig with fanatics from St. Louis.