August 16, 2005
Felix Extends Streak
Felix Hernandez continued the great career start last night, striking out 11 Royals to pick up his second win. He gave up a run to raise his ERA to 0.86. He's now struck out 21 in 21 innings. He's allowed no home runs and just three walks. He's giving Seattle fans lots of reasons to be excited about the future of the team.
His win was the Royals 16th straight loss.
The 16-game skid extends a club record for futility and ranks as baseball’s longest since Baltimore opened the 1988 season with 21 consecutive losses.
Matt Stairs and Chip Ambres are the only Royals producing any offense. Five hitters are in double digits in strikeouts during the streak. Maybe it's time for some of them to choke up on the bat.
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...and the Royals are putting Greinke on the mound tonight... 3-14 with a 6.09 ERA, almost screams "17 straight".
Word is that Felix's first television appearance will be September 5th on ESPN. A lot of the Royals and Twins he faced could be AAA hitters, but they put up the quality of batters faced over at U.S.S. Mariner somewhere and it looked to be league average. Felix has been awesome no matter how you slice it.
I am really surprised Greinke has been this bad. What is he doing differently this year?
