Royals POSTCAST: Kansas City Royals STUMPED By Cleveland Guardians in WALK-OFF LOSS!

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The Royals Drop Game 2 against the Cleveland Guardians today, and I'll break down what mattered

most in today's Royals Postcast.

I'm Chance Libo, your host of Post Game Reaction to Royals Games this season.

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As the Royals fall, two to one today, walkoff fashion, a really brutal watch from start

to finish, a really quick game to, I was expecting to go live around 3.30 in the Royals.

Just offensively couldn't manage much, a guy that they've struggled against throughout

his entire career, Gavin Williams has always seemed to have really good stuff against

the Royals.

And they just couldn't snuff anything offensively today.

They end up with just one hit.

And while Noah Cameron pitched a pretty good game that was a struggle at times for the

bullpen.

I thought that two of the guys that threw today in the bullpen were actually really good.

I really liked the stuff that I saw from Daniel Lynch.

I thought he was really good, probably had his best stuff of the year.

Nick Mears had good stuff, but John Schreiber just comes in late and blows the game.

It wasn't his fault that he had to pitch in a one to one ball game in the bottom of the

ninth inning.

But at the end of the day, you're employed to do a job.

That just has to be what you get that you have to get guys out and John Schreiber was

sporadic.

He was wild.

He was inconsistent.

And for that reason, the Royals now dropped below 500.

They are five and six.

And I just think that this was a disappointing loss for the Royals.

They head into a winner take all game three tomorrow for the series with Cleveland.

And I just think that today with a really rough performance, the offense is kind of what

you're going to be talking about today.

This is what you'll be talking about.

I just think that the offense was brutal to watch today.

You suck Carter Jensen really rope a ball.

But if you look at the lineup up and down today, the Royals in total outside of the

home run from Carter Jensen had just four hard hit balls.

They had none against the Indian or sorry, the Guardians bull pin Gavin Williams struck

out a walk five.

The Royals with runners in scoring position today over four.

They leave seven on base, Bobby would junior continues to be a not a hole in the lineup,

but continues to be the entire clutch guy in this lineup.

And we've seen the middle of this border really have its struggles with runners in scoring

position this season.

And I think that it's one thing to struggle with runners in scoring position, but it's

another thing for your middle of the lineup to be the ones that just cannot hit with runners

on base.

And that continues to be an issue.

We praise the bottom of this lineup.

I've given so much praise to guys like Kyle Isbell, Jack Cagley, I'm into a certain extent

Isaac Collins, but the bottom or the middle of this lineup, top of the lineup has to be

so much better at just bringing guys into score.

The Royals this season have really struggled with runners in scoring position.

It continues to be an issue with runners on base this season pulling up the fan graphs

numbers.

The Royals are hitting and visible.

The Royals are hitting a league, league 11264 with runners on base and with runners in

scoring position this year, looking at where the Royals are at with runners in scoring

position.

They are hitting just 262 in the middle of that lineup, Bobby would junior, Vinnie Pasmentino,

Salvador Perez.

They continue to just not give you very good at bats in the middle of that.

It continues to be a frustrating point for anybody watching Royals games.

You saw Jack's tweet today, some of you might have seen Joel Pintfield's tweet today about

how good the Royals have been at getting hard hit balls, not chasing.

Today just was not that they struck out way too much.

They walked, but they were not able to bring guys around.

The approach to the plate was awful considering the conditions that they played in today with

bad weather.

You have to be at least willing to lay down a bun.

You have to be willing to take an extra bag when you're on the bases.

It was just not good enough from the Royals offensively today.

You got to tip your cap to Gavin Williams.

He pitched a really impressive game, five walks, but each strikeouts against a Royals team

that just did not look prepared to hit in those conditions.

Bobby would junior continues to struggle over three today with a strikeout.

You get a hat trick from three different guys in the lineup.

Michael Garcia, Jack Haglion and Isaac Collins all finish with three strikeouts.

That's not going to work if you want to win baseball games.

Now you're going into tomorrow facing a lefty.

Who's to say that any past Latino starts tomorrow?

Carter Jensen's been really good this season, but back to our show, a favorable show

guys that needs favoring splits in Carter Jensen hit left hand in pitching.

I'm curious to see what the lineup looks like tomorrow because I don't think it needs

to be shaken up.

We're 11 games in the season, but there needs to be a wake up call for some guys.

The unfortunate part is I don't think the Royals have anybody that comfortable putting

in the three hole or the four hole that you can bring up from the bottom of the lineup,

and that just kind of is an issue.

I just think that I think that they need to be much better in the middle of the lineup.

The guys that you pay to be middle of the lineup, pitters have to hit like middle of

the lineup, pitters, and that's been a really big issue for the Royals so far as season.

All right.

When we come back, we'll talk about the bullpen decisions.

I was not a huge fan of what Mac sure I did with the bullpen today.

We'll talk about that when we come back here on the Royals postcast.

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I'm not going to wrangle that much on the pitching staff today because I thought they did

more than enough to win a baseball game today.

Noah Cameron was really, really good against the guardians.

He's had his struggles in the past against them.

He gives you almost six innings, only walked one, five strikeouts.

I thought he was excellent today.

He got out of a lot of jams.

There was multiple opportunities for the guardians today to get, you know, get, take advantage

of the royals in the offense.

They didn't do that because Noah Cameron really locked in.

Daniel Lynch came in and slammed the door in the sixth inning, continued to pitch well

in the seventh.

Nick Mears.

I don't love Nick Mears stuff overall.

I don't know if he's a guy that I would consider throwing in high leverage spots that I do

like Nick Mears as a sixth, seventh inning guy that can throw in some low leverage spots.

I do think that that is kind of his role with this team and I think he's going to serve

it really, really well.

Then you go to John Schreiber in the ninth inning and I just don't understand that decision.

Since when has John Schreiber been a guy you're confident throwing in in these high leverage

spots since his first season, probably more so since the first half of his first season.

John Schreiber has just been too erratic.

He's not been consistent enough to really give you confidence in him heading into some of

these big spots and it was a really frustrating performance for him.

You look at what he gave you from a just pitch standpoint that slider continues to just

be a miss after miss today.

His slider got in was was in the zone in total just or sorry his sweeper you didn't throw

a single one for a strike and it continues to be one of his worst pitches.

His change up wasn't in the zone.

He throws that cutter and he throws it well.

But today 33% in the zone was 33% strides.

He was wild.

He was to the four batters he paced.

He was behind in three of them.

It just feels like he's not a guy that you can trust in a high leverage spot.

I don't understand the trust that they put in him.

I would have much rather seen Lucas Er sig in that spot, especially considering he didn't

pitch a whole lot yesterday.

But I understand the macro trail kind of use him as their closer now with Carlos Esteba

as sign line.

So I think that it's going to be really interesting to see how they go forward with this bullpen

considering they don't have really anybody other than Er sig and strom.

You can rely on in high leverage situations Alex Lang has been blown up Daniel Lynch pitched

really well today, but it's hit or miss with the amount of the bullpen John Schreiber.

He's a walking gasoline can when it comes to what the other team sees offensively, but

I just think that this bullpen I love the bullpen.

I think they have a chance to be one of the best bullpins in the league, but you have to get

so much more out of some of those guys.

If you want to see this team in a playoff spot, come October because you're just not getting

enough from this team offensively and it's tough to watch sometimes or sorry from the

bullpen.

It's tough to watch sometimes what this bullpen does, but man, I just think that John Schreiber

is not the guy you should go to in that ninth inning.

That's my opinion in hindsight's 2020, but I probably would have rather seen a couple

of other guys come out of the bullpen.

I wouldn't have been opposed to seeing Alex Lang in that spot.

I just think that John Schreiber is not a guy you can throw in these leverage spots.

I just think that I would have liked to have seen him not on the roster this year compared

to what we've seen from him over the last couple of years.

He's just not been very good.

He's last couple of seasons for the Royals, and I think that at this juncture of his

career, he's just not a high leverage pitcher, and the Royals need to realize that.

You go into tomorrow's game with Matt Strom and Lucas Ersick, both available, and you're

going to have full rig and you're ace on the mound throughout his career with the Royals.

He has been really good in rubber matches.

I think that you feel confident going into tomorrow while today's loss definitely stings.

You wanted more out of it.

It was not ideal hitting conditions.

Gavin Williams has traditionally pitched well against the Royals, and he's traditionally

a really good home pitcher in Cleveland, so I think that you go into tomorrow with an

opportunity to win a series in at the end of the day.

That's what you can ask for, but I appreciate you guys who are joining us today.

Short show.

I've got to get back to work.

Jack will have you guys tomorrow.

He'll go live after the game against Cleveland.

Weird start time at 1240 local, but Jack will have you tomorrow for the Royals postcast.

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