Royals String a Few W's Together

After dropping the first game of the Seattle series, the Royals came back and won the final two games to take the series. The 2005 version of the Seattle Mariners hardly resembles the Mariners teams of old. They are sitting in the basement of the AL West, 12 games under .500, but it's still nice to win a series, no matter who we are playing.

Buddy Bell finally moved Angel Berroa down in the line up and Berroa started hitting. I'm still not sure why Bell wants Gotay hitting in the two hole. He's hardly the prototypical number two hitter. He's a free swinger with a poor batting average. The ideal guy would be Graffanino, but it looks like Tony isn't going to be given a chance to play everyday, so we're left without a number two hitter.

Runelvys Hernandez finally appears to be on track. He pitched the final game in the Mariners series. He won his sixth game of the season, giving up 0 ER, 9 H, and issuing just 1 BB in 6 IP. And he's got his ERA down to 4.53. So perhaps we can count on Carrasco and Elvis at the top of the rotation.

Lima finally picked up his second win of the season last night against the Twins. He threw first pitch strikes to 23 of 29 batters. That's impressive. I don't know if it will be enough for him to keep his spot in the rotation after the break, but I'm glad to see him come through with a good performance.