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Records at Glance: Brewers: 41-31, 1st NL Central; Royals: 29-44, 5th AL Central

TV: FSN Wisconsin
Radio: 620 WTMJ


Jorge De La Rosa, LHP (4-7, 5.23)


Jeff Suppan, RHP (7-7, 4.69)

Scouting Report

Royals: De La Rosa had another shaky outing on June 16 against the Marlins, allowing seven runs and a season-high 13 hits in 4 2/3 innings. This time, walks weren't the problem -- he issued one free pass, but it was intentional and didn't factor in the scoring. But he was in the middle of the plate all night, yielding a two-run and a four-run inning. He has worked fewer than five innings in four of his past five starts and hasn't resembled the pitcher who threw five quality starts in the first six weeks of the season. Manager Buddy Bell has contemplated shaking up the rotation, but De La Rosa is the man for now. He will pitch on the road in his next start, a much better venue (3.96 ERA) than home (6.34). He will also pitch against the Brewers, a team he pitched for from 2004 until his trade to the Royals last season. This will be his first career start against Milwaukee.

Brewers: Suppan was spared the loss when the Brewers rallied for a ninth-inning tie against the Twins, but it was nonetheless his worst outing as a Brewer. Suppan surrendered nine runs for the first time since last July in Atlanta, and 10 hits for the first time since Aug. 4, 2005. The outing continued a downward trend for Suppan, who signed a club-record four-year contract in the offseason and began his Brewers career 5-2 with a 2.63 ERA and nine walks in his first seven starts spanning 48 innings. In the 48 innings since, spanning eight starts, Suppan is 2-6 with a 6.75 ERA and 23 walks. He pitched for Kansas City from 1998-02.

Royals Probable Lineup:
CF David DeJesus
LF Joey Gathright
RF Mark Teahen
C John Buck
3B Alex Gordon
1B Ryan Shealy
2B Fernando Cortez
SS Tony Pena Jr
P Jorge De La Rosa

Brewers Probable Lineup:
RF Corey Hart
SS Tony Graffanino
3B Ryan Braun
1B Prince Fielder
CF Bill Hall
C Johnny Estrada
LF Kevin Mench
2B Rickie Weeks
P Jeff Suppan

Captain Erv's Thoughts: Coming off a nice sweep over the Giants, the Brewers will look to continue their winning ways against the Kansas City Royals. We really need to keep the peddle to the medal here and continue to win games and series that we should win. De La Rosa makes his first visit to Milwaukee since being traded...Let's give him a nice welcome home beating!

de la rosa's arms look like taffy in that shot.

Well De la Rosa pitched tonight against the Cardinals. Of course it was only 5 pitches before he gave up a walk off homer.

Memories people. CRUSH HIM!

De La Rosa will probably still pitch tomorrow night. At least I hope so.

Any chance that Yost moves Weeks up to #2 and Graffy down to 8? Weeks has defintly shown he is healthy and is hitting the ball great right now.

are we assuming jj is out another day? i thought he'd be back

Feels great to be 10 over .500.

Hopefully the day off today will be enough for Hardy, but first it was his hip and then his back.

Jorge pitches real well every 4th game or so. As a JDLR fan, I hope Friday is that 4th game.

Oh yeah, I'm touching his name plate from his 2006 locker right now, ensue jealousy.

Cubs blew another game today. They are 8.5 back now.

Nowak008 wrote:Cubs blew another game today. They are 8.5 back now.

That's a shame.

Go Brewers!!

Took several different emails but i finally got into RealGM.

What ever happened to Soup pitching on Saturday? I could've swore that when I looked on ESPN.com's Brewers schedule, they had Soup on Saturday. Gah! I'm going to the game on Saturday, and it would've been more fun to see Soup than Bushy.

humanrefutation wrote:What ever happened to Soup pitching on Saturday? I could've swore that when I looked on ESPN.com's Brewers schedule, they had Soup on Saturday. Gah! I'm going to the game on Saturday, and it would've been more fun to see Soup than Bushy.

They moved Bush's start to saturday because of the off day today and just kept with the normal 5 day rest and are starting Suppan on friday and bush on saturday. Gallardo goes Sunday I believe.

i think anything less than a sweep of the lowly royals will be disappointing. finally, we get the chance to benefit from a JDLR meltdown.

MadCityBucky wrote:Took several different emails but i finally got into RealGM.

i had the same problem as i tried to join way back in october but it wouldnt let me. i would still come and read the forums everyday tho until i got in.

Ace Villa wrote:i think anything less than a sweep of the lowly royals will be disappointing. finally, we get the chance to benefit from a JDLR meltdown.

I think you're setting expectations too high then. They took 2 of 3 from us in Kansas City last year so 2 of 3 here would be fine. It's very difficult to sweep a team no matter how bad they are.

i'm just hoping for a series victory....like trwi7 said, lost 2 of 3 last year. i think we're a different team this year, and hopefully we won't lose these kinds of series like last year. kc has been putting up some runs though, so we'll need some good pitching.

Todays pop quiz...name 6 Royals without cheating and going back to page 1.

Andrew34r wrote:Todays pop quiz...name 6 Royals without cheating and going back to page 1.

Gordon
Teahen
JDLR
Meche
Sweeney
uhhh...