Hello Win Column, Win #5: Young's Heroics Avoid Sweep for Rangers

I had a bet with my family that Ron Washington would get the ax if the Rangers were swept by the Royals. Whether or not I was right, I bet that Michael Young's beers are on his manager tonight.

Let's hear from the losing locker room (which is quite unhappy with Trey Hillman's management of the late innings):

A breakdown of Treydaddy's Decisions: April 19th Edition from Royals Review

". . . Did a lot of first-guessing of Trey's managerial decisions as the Royals' chances to win slowly spiraled down the drainage pipe of doom . . . What more needs to be said at this point? Of course, Trey did the "conventional" move, saving his closer Soria until the Royals had taken an imaginary lead against the Texas bullpen's next imaginary pitcher. This entire plan, however, is contingent on Kyle Farnsworth holding the lead against the heart of Texas' order: Young, Hamilton, Jones, Blalock. Who am I kidding? Everyone knew it wasn't going to make it to Jones or Blalock....even Hamilton probably would've gotten out of his slump against Farns. While I was surprised it only took him two pitches to blow this one....the fact that he gave up a gopher-ball (Young's first career walk off) was not hard to see coming. I LOVED how DeJesus didn't even try to run back to the wall. He just took a couple steps and then was like "screw it," and started the walk of shame."

Another Injury to Overcome from Rany on the Royals

"Joakim Soria is out indefinitely with an apparent inability to pitch. I say “apparent” because there has no been no confirmation from the Royals on the subject. I hesitate to say that Soria is injured, because there is no evidence of an actual injury. Nonetheless, it appears quite certain that the Mexicutioner is suffering from an ailment that prevents him from pitching. That is because the alternative explanation is that Trey Hillman has the IQ of a barnyard animal, and I think we can all agree that barnyard animals possess neither the intellect nor the communication skills necessary to obtain a job as major league manager in the first place . . . . But please, don’t blame Hillman for this. Rest assured that there’s no way someone could spend a quarter-century playing, coaching, and managing in professional baseball, and ascend to the highest rank of his profession before he turned 45, and make the decisions that Hillman appeared to make today. It’s simply not possible that Hillman would not use Soria to protect a tight lead, even as the inning was falling apart, just because it was the eighth inning instead of the ninth. It’s not possible that instead of Soria in the ninth, he would call upon KYLE FREAKING FARNSWORTH, who now has more losses (3) than the rest of the team combined (2) in exactly 3.1 innings of work, just because it was a tie game instead of a save situation. Trey Hillman is not that stupid. No one is that stupid."