Too much Hudson

A's 6 Royals 2
W-Hudson (4-1), L-Gobble (1-2)
Royals Season Record: 11-22

Jimmy Gobble gave up four runs in the first inning and that was all Tim Hudson needed to win this one. To his credit, Gobble bounced back and pitched decent after the first inning, but we just could not get back in this one.

Justin Huisman continues to impress out of the pen—pitching 1 1/3 innings and giving up no runs or hits and keeping his ERA at 0.00. It looks like he may get a shot a closing a game soon. He's accustomed to closing, he had 79 saves in the past three seasons while pitching in the minors for the Rockies.

Harvey made a nice stab at first and a nice pick up. I like the combo of Harvey playing first and Sweeney DH'ing. I don't think Harvey is top notch defensively, but he's adequate.

Berroa continues to struggle at the plate. His average is now .195. It's odd that Pena would choose him for the lead off spot given his average, but Pena doesn't exactly manage in the traditional sense, so who knows what's going through his mind.

Matt Stairs had three more hits and is making it more and more difficult to take him out of the line up. I still think Guiel is too good to sit on the bench, but one of them has to. Unless of course we sat Juan Gonzalez and I'm thinking that Baird didn't sign him just so he could sit on the bench.

Next up is Mulder (3-2, 3.91 ERA) vs. May (1-4, 6.40).