At 7:10 the Royals and Yankees kick off game 2 of a 3 game set with the Royals leading 1 game to none. Taking the Mound today for the Royals is Zack Greinke (1-0, 1.29 ERA) and Ian Kennedy (0-1, 23.14 ERA) gets the start for the Yankees.
Guillen's suspension was again pushed back as MLB tries to figure out to do.
Update: It looks like Ian Kennedy was a last minute scratch in favor of Brian Bruney. No word as of yet why Kennedy isn't making his start.
Update II: Looks like Girardi was holding Kennedy out in case the game was postponed, which of course it wasn't. Kennedy came into the game in the 6th and allowed 2 runs on 2 hits.
Box Score
The rain couldn't slow down the Royals as Greinke pitched a fantastic game throwing 8 inning of shut out ball. The bullpen closed out the game in the 9th, first Yabuta and then Gobble to complete the shut out.
The offense like usually didn't get much going until the middle innings when John Buck took Farnsworth deep to lead off the 5th. The Royals added another run in the 5th and 2 more in the 6th to complete the games scoring.
My thoughts on Greinke is if you are going to bring him back in for the 8th when he was already at 97 pitches then why not let him come back for the 9th at 107? Would have been nice to see Greinke get the complete game but I'm happy non the less.
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