Royals pitch carefully with the bases loaded, because, you know, one bad pitch could clear the bases. Instead, 3 runs in anyway. And then a base hit, or two, after all that care.
The score after 5 is 1-1, and nobody's winning. This has been your BBU. / Birthday Boy Update, natch. If somebody already did one of these, well, I'm not wading through 22 pages just to be original
Time for a Buxton Bingle, where he winds up on third. / OK, my feed still has his at-bat in progress. I will resign myself to being ninja'd every time.
I've been high on Kepler's potential for several seasons, but I'm with the group expecting the pitchers will continue to adjust to him, moreso than he can counter-adjust, for the time being at least. Perhaps a stronger second-half than the first.
Yes, that's the reason I put the Kranson picture up there - I thought it came out entertainingly. I shoot a lot, and once in a great while I catch something other than a batter taking a pitch. The Buxton blur is surely due to using the full auto setting at night with the stadium lights - it picked too long an exposure, apparently. Something that I guess I'll have to finally crack open the manual and understand. And I should add: my son ashburydavid puts my photography skills to shame. He's got a real eye for composition, and understands his (superior) camera.