Royals 5, Rockies 0: Jeff Francis pitches effectively in Royals snoozefest of a win

by Russ Oates on Mar 10, 2010 4:12 PM MST in Rockies Game Wraps

In a preview of the 2010 Fall Classic, the efficacious Royals downed the Rockies 5-0 this afternoon. The teams were scoreless for the first six innings, which for three innings had an improved Jeff Francis on the mound. As Troy Renck reports:

Francis showed much better fastball command than he displayed in his Cactus League debut last Friday. [...] Two Royals reached in the first on singles, but Francis escaped damage. He walked pitcher Zack Greinke on six pitches to lead off the third, but Greinke was erased straying off second base on a rundown after a groundball to shortstop.

Yeah, that walk to Greinke was embarrassing since Greinke was told not to swing the bat.

Tim Redding came on for the next three innings and presumably helped his case to be on the 25-man roster, allowing one hit and striking out three. Manny Corpas took the loss because he allowed the first run, but it was Edgmer Escalona who allowed four runs on four hits in the eighth inning.

All in all, this game was a snoozefest. Texas tomorrow.

In other news, Ubaldo Jimenez was officially named the Opening Day starter.

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yay Ubaldo!

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by Maria M on Mar 10, 2010 4:15 PM MST reply actions

We’ll have to have these on opening day now instead of cookies.

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by RhodeIslandRoxfan on Mar 10, 2010 8:55 PM MST up reply actions

What? How could he be the opening day starter?

The MSM said it would be Francis since he is our true Veteran potential 20 game winner? I am confused…

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by Arimaris on Mar 10, 2010 4:34 PM MST reply actions

What speed was Francis hitting today?

Did anyone see?

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by Charlie77 on Mar 10, 2010 5:36 PM MST via mobile up reply actions

it wasn't

working on Gameday….so I’m not sure what he was at.

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by Maria M on Mar 10, 2010 5:43 PM MST up reply actions

Tomorrow's game will be even more of a snoozefest because it will be the first game this Spring where all we have is GameDay.

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by Greg Stanwood on Mar 10, 2010 4:34 PM MST reply actions

A confession:

I haven’t really been paying too much attention to the games so far beyond checking out the boxscores. It just doesn’t feel real to me yet. When I return from Spring Break then I’ll be more ready for baseball.

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by Jeff Aberle on Mar 10, 2010 4:38 PM MST up reply actions

I'm with you there.

I want people to do well, injured people to show improvement, hitters to square up the ball.

But W/L? meh.

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by frightened inmate #2 on Mar 10, 2010 5:11 PM MST up reply actions

I certainly don't think anybody here cares about the ST record...

by Greg Stanwood on Mar 10, 2010 9:12 PM MST up reply actions

WHAT??!?!?!?!?!?

Who doesn’t care about Spring Training Records?

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by jrockies on Mar 10, 2010 10:01 PM MST up reply actions

/raises hand

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by Andrew Martin on Mar 11, 2010 10:24 AM MST up reply actions

Yeah, but when you don’t care about wins or losses, it doesn’t quite feel real. Feels like practice. It’s nice to have updates on players every day, but still doesn’t match the first week of April

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by frightened inmate #2 on Mar 11, 2010 9:46 AM MST up reply actions

That's it. I want my vote back for World Series :P

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PS Let's win the NL West in 2010, shall we?

by SDcat09 on Mar 10, 2010 4:40 PM MST reply actions

Tomorrow's game will be even more of a snoozefest because it will be the first game this Spring where all we have is GameDay.

by Greg Stanwood on Mar 10, 2010 4:40 PM MST reply actions

Six minutes apart

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by Jeff Aberle on Mar 10, 2010 6:01 PM MST up reply actions

Ghost in the machine.

No clue how that could have possibly happened.

by Greg Stanwood on Mar 10, 2010 9:12 PM MST up reply actions

I'm sad that Edgmer was terrible today.

I like that guy. Hopefully he bounces back.

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by Bryan Kilpatrick on Mar 10, 2010 4:46 PM MST reply actions

He's still fresh on the radar of the organization.

I’m not worried about little flubs like that. He’s a couple years away to begin with.

by Greg Stanwood on Mar 10, 2010 4:49 PM MST up reply actions

Please for the love of God don't let Redding be on the 25 man roster

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by RhodeIslandRoxfan on Mar 10, 2010 5:06 PM MST reply actions

Batting stance guy had a great tweet on Tim Redding a couple days ago:

“Fisher Stevens winning an Oscar gives Tim Redding hopes of capturing this year’s Cy Young.”

"CarGo had to make some repairs to it. They called it a kitchen accident, but he was performing surgery. On teh lazor."
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by Hollidayrain on Mar 10, 2010 5:11 PM MST up reply actions

This may be the most awesome sig line ever

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by Mondogarage on Mar 10, 2010 10:20 PM MST up reply actions

Ken Rosenthal tweets..

That Garret Atkins isnt athletic and shows poor footwork.
— doesn’t he know that Atkins works from the fankles?

EY2 tweets that he isn’t comfortable at 3b yet.
— I’m betting he doesn’t make the big club out of ST. But I’m still rooting for him.

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by Charlie77 on Mar 10, 2010 5:35 PM MST via mobile reply actions

bwa ha ha ha ha haha

Fankles..I love it.

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by Maria M on Mar 10, 2010 5:43 PM MST up reply actions

Tim Lincecum is on ESPN Radio with Brian Kenney

and when asked what one player he’d prefer never to face, he named Todd Helton. Said Helton owns him, and when he managed to get Todd to swing and miss once last season it was a big deal for him. Heh.

Also, when asked one team that impresses him he named the Rockies.

by holly96 on Mar 10, 2010 6:49 PM MST reply actions

Stop making me like you Timmy

Interesting…..

Helton has batted .474 with 1 HR, 1 2B, 6 BBs, 1 K and a 1.284 OPS in 25 PA.

Chris Iannetta has hit .500 in 22PA (his 2nd most against any pitcher), with 1 HR, 4 RBI, 2 2B, 8 BBs, 3 Ks and a 1.644 OPS against Lincecum.

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by Andrew T. Fisher on Mar 10, 2010 6:59 PM MST up reply actions

Seth Smith doesn’t seem to have much of a problem hitting him either.

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by RhodeIslandRoxfan on Mar 10, 2010 8:12 PM MST up reply actions

yay

best game I saw in person last year

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by Muzia on Mar 10, 2010 8:24 PM MST up reply actions

I love Timmeh...

PS Let's win the NL West in 2010, shall we?

by SDcat09 on Mar 10, 2010 7:21 PM MST up reply actions

FSNRM right now.

New Rockies commercials.

I want a “Jim Tracy is my homeboy” T-shirt

Ubaldomania.

by The Lodo Magic Man on Mar 10, 2010 7:41 PM MST reply actions

bwahahahahaha

Iannetta speaking spanish

Ubaldomania.

by The Lodo Magic Man on Mar 10, 2010 7:45 PM MST up reply actions

Do we

know when these will be posted on the Rockies website?

JFK

by jrockies on Mar 10, 2010 10:13 PM MST up reply actions

They should be up tomorrow

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by RhodeIslandRoxfan on Mar 10, 2010 10:36 PM MST up reply actions

It's tomorrow.

Anyone got a link? ;)

by RoxFan1701 on Mar 11, 2010 7:59 AM MST up reply actions

Found a link...but.

Clicky

Only the 2009 ones are there.

by RoxFan1701 on Mar 11, 2010 8:02 AM MST up reply actions

Guys, how does one find Gameday? Do they hide it?

It's my blog!

by biondino on Mar 11, 2010 3:43 AM MST reply actions

Apparently.

There will be a link in the game thread though when it goes up.

by RoxFan1701 on Mar 11, 2010 7:59 AM MST up reply actions

The day's game links are at the top

gameday

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by phishbate on Mar 11, 2010 8:24 AM MST up reply actions

GameDay doesn't technically exist during Spring Training.

The GameDay app is tied directly into the box score app for MLB.com. This is so that every update matches itself consistently everywhere, so as not to provide observational confusion. During the regular season, MLB.com hires people to operate the GameDay app from each stadium. These updates usually go undone in ST, as MLB.com doesn’t hire people to update it. They just have a scorekeeper present updating the box score. Sometimes (such as yesterday’s game), they decide to play around with gameDay too. But since it is unreliable and incomplete, and usually only updated along with a box score update, there is no reason to advertise the GameDay viewer. Hence why we have to link our way in manually.

by Greg Stanwood on Mar 11, 2010 9:06 AM MST up reply actions