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Sac Kings preview: Kings break new ground at new arena and new season

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by Jeff Hall

SACRAMENTO–The Sacramento Kings opened up the season against the Golden State Warriors at Sleep Train Arena and also broke ground for construction at the new new arena at the downtown plaza where it will be the future home of the Kings. The new arena is expected to open in the fall of 2016.

On opening night a lot of the Kings success against the Warriors will have to do with their head coach Mike Malone. The grow up part of it has to do with Kings forward DeMarcus Cousins. Cousins is a solid player and we all know he’s an emotional player and its a matter or not if Cousins can’t control that emotion.

So far Cousins has done a great job so far he looks like a leader and it’s something that the Kings haven’t seen and he’s not under the old ownership of the Maloof family. With new owner Vivek Ranadive he won’t toloreate bad behavior and that’s not to say he would get rid of Cousins.

Cousins is solid and Ranadive and the Kings are looking forward to Cousins to produce. He’s defitnitely a superstar and definitely he’s an All-Star player. Were going to see a lot of Cousins this season and the Kings will really embrace him and his role for this year if they haven’t done it already. If Cousins can control his emotions particularly against NBA referees.

It comes down to Cousins and if he’s solid they’ll need him for the players and it’s going to come down to this guy. No matter how solid he is the Kings could make the playoffs this year. It’s important to Ranadive because he knows that Sacramento is not going to put up with a team that loses every year. The city will still support the team but it’s important that the team start winning some games.

It’s important to Ranadive and as long as the players respect this guy and they respect Malone and they do it might be a very good start against the Warriors to open the season. The Kings haven’t had a very good opportunity to to start this season at home. There’s a lot of Warriors fans who are in Sacramento as well and there are a lot of fans who are willing to go to Golden State.

These two teams present the highway 80 competition and it should be a good competition between these two teams and you saw a lot of Warriors fans in Sacramento. Kings general manager Pete D’Alessandro and Malone expect the best out of his starting five including Rudy Gay whose at one forward and with Cousins their performing and taking on a lot of the load.

The Kings are also hoping that their second year guard Ben McLemore and Nicky Stauskas can grow and blend in with the veterans Jason Thompson, Reggie Evans, and Ramon Sessions. The Kngs are hoping that happens quickly and D’Alessandro and Malone are looking to see what kind of defense that these kids can play. You got Stauskas whose a former Michigan Wolverine player and he could do a lot on rebounding and helping the Kings capitalize on the turnover.

Jeff Hall covers the Sacramento Kings for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

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Warriors report: Gruber will get a pass for emailing players about having to learn “Hoodish”language

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by Jerry Feitelberg

OAKLAND–On Monday Golden State Warriors co-owner emailed his players that he will have to learn how to speak different languages because of the team’s international background. Gruber wrote “I’m taking Rosetta Stone to learn Hungarian, Serbian, Australian, Swahili, and Hoodish, this year but it’s nice.”

Gruber corrected himself once it was pointed out to him that using the term “Hoodish” is a racially derogatory term in the text that he used it in his next email he backtracked and said he meant to say “Yiddish” although there are no Jewish players on the Warriors making his backtracking difficult for some to accept. Warriors media relations manager Raymond Ridder sent out an email to the press notifying them that the team extends congratulations to all 30 teams who have 101 players from 37 different countries.

Ridder said a third of the team roster consisted of Warrior players Andrew Bogut, Leandro Barbosa, Festus Ezeli, Ognjen Kuzmic, and Nemanja Nedovic. Gruber retracked by telling the media it was a email faux pas and “someone brought to my attention that an email I responded to earlier contains the word ‘hoodish’ which I don’t think is even a word, and certainly is not the one I intended to use. I intended to type Yiddish. Either my mobile phone autocorrected or it was typed wrong. In any event I regret if anyone was unintendedly offended.” wrote Gruber.

Gruber is Chairman of Mandalay Entertainment Group and he bought into the Warriors ownership group becoming co-owner with Joe Lacob in 2010 paying an NBA record $450 million for an NBA a franchise. Gruber is a minority owner with former L.A. Laker Magic Johnson of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

None of the players are saying that they are offended by Gruber’s use of the word “Hoodish” in needing to learn the language or if they believed him or not that he meant to use the word “Yiddish” even though there is no Yiddish speaking players on the Warriors.

Warriors star Stephen Curry said that Gruber’s intentions were harmless, “I know Peter, I know him personally, I talk to him, doesn’t sound like something he would say. To me it sounds like an honest mistake. I’ve read a couple emails from him and he has a little quirkiness about how he types. Hearing how his reaction to when he found out what happened sounds genuine, kind of got to assess the situation for his character and who he is and that’s how I’m going about it.” said Curry

Recently some NBA front office people were forced to quit over racial remarks, Bruce Levinson of the Atlanta Hawks sent out an email saying black fans scared away white fans at Atlanta Hawks home games “and there are simply not enough affluent black fans to build a significant season ticket base” Levinson was forced to sell his controlling interest because of his remarks. Levinson’s General Manager Danny Ferry responded saying while reading a scouting report that Luol Deng who now plays for the Miami Heat “has little African in him”. Ferry has since stepped down and has left the Hawks indefinitely.

Then there is Donald Sterling former Los Angeles Clippers owner who was forced to sell the Clippers to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer when he was recorded by his friend V Stiviano making racial remarks and discriminatory racist remarks about Stiviano bringing black friends to Clippers games. Sterling was banned from the NBA for life and had to sell the team for $2 billion.

Jerry Feitelberg covers Golden State Warriors basketball for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

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Thats Amaury’s News and Commentary: Three Giant pitchers with minus .500 regular season records going strong in World Series

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by Amaury Pi Gonzalez

KANSAS CITY–The way baseball is structured the Boston Red Sox last season won the World Series, well what happened this year the Sox finished in the cellar. My point there is no team that is a super team, the Giants might win and pitcher Madison Bumgarner might be the best pitcher in the world and he will be the MVP who will win the series.

Still there’s no super team, everybody in baseball has weaknesses and everybody had deficiencies there’s no one team that’s going to be perfect all season that’s impossible to stop. Look at the Giants after pitcher Madison Bumgarner, the Giants acquired Tim Hudson and Jake Peavy who both have below .500 records and who weren’t even there they were acquired during the season.

The Giants stater Ryan Voglesong had a negative record during the season of 8-13 and the Royals James Sheilds is not the same pitcher that he was in Tampa Bay. He can be hit, there’s not a super team out there so this series was bound to go to the end to six or seven games. Of course if the Giants win on Tuesday night in game six they’ll win their third World Series in the last six years but if they lose it will go to game seven.

There’s no team that’s a super team, somebody is going to win this World Series and in baseball right now there’s a lot of parity. What happened to the Red Sox can happen to anybody, the Sox won the World Series last season and then the following year in September your in the tank as the Red Sox finished this sesaon. In baseball there’s a lot of parity and one of the best things that Commissioner Bud Selig did was to structure the Wild Card.

Here are two Wild Card teams nobody expected the Giants and the Royals to be in the World Series that was like a 10,000 to 1 shot. If someone said this year in March in spring training that it’s going to be Kansas City and San Francisco someone would say “what are you smoking?” In this game there is a lot of parity and that’s why this World Series is so even and now it’s a sixth game on Tuesday.

For game six it’s Jake Peavy going for San Francisco against Kansas City’s Yordano Ventura and for the Royals they have to win on Tuesday and if they lose there will be no tomorrow if the Royals don’t win game six. The Giants can’t even use some of the pitchers they have used recently and they want to close it tomorrow. It won’t be a surprise if the Royals win game six and the series goes to a final decisive seventh game.

The death of former St.Louis Cardinal outfielder Oscar Taveras (1992-2014) who died at the age of 22 from a car accident was a true tragedy in baseball. This kid in his first at bat hits a home run in the big leagues and he hit a pinch hit home run and in game 2 of the NLCS against the Giants Taveras hit one out. It was heart wrenching for all the players and people who saw Mr.Taveras play at AT&T Park in San Francisco against the Giants and throughout the NLCS and now he’s dead at age 22.

Mr.Taveras died with his girlfriend Edilia Arvelo 18, they were both driving a 2014 Cheverlet Camaro between the beaches of Sousa and Cabarete in Puerta Plata located 215 miles north of the capital of the Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo. Mr.Taveras was identified by his family he was not carrying any documents that would identify him at the time of the crash said Col.Diego Pesqueira of the Metropolitan Transportation Agency.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the Spanish radio voice for the Oakland Athletics and does News and Commentary each week for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

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World Series 2014 commentary: Game six on deck Giants want to wrap it up and Royals need a game seven

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by Michael Duca

KANSAS CITY–Four of the five games have been decided by five runs or more and how many times has that happened? Right now for San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy it’s all hands on deck the Giants want to prevent going to a seventh game of the World Series as game six is in Kansas City. To me it’s do or die in game six and you don’t want to let the crowd into a game seven.

While none of these 2014 Giant players were around during the 2002 World Series as Giant coaches Dave Righetti anb Ron Wotus remember that game six the Giants were just six outs away from winning the series and the Angels Scott Speizio hit the game winning homer to take the game to game seven which the Angels went onto win and in that instance stuff happens.

It’s hard to tell whats going to happen the Giants have had 28 hits in the last two games that leads you to believe they are confident hitters and it also leads you to believe the scouting reports about the Giants hitting more as is expected in game six. Significant things happened in game five, they scored off the backend of Kansas City’s bullpen in the eighth inning for three runs.

The Giants scored off of Royals relievers Kevin Herera and Wade Davis, they hit a ball off Davis so hard that it went over Royals rightfielder Lorenzo Cain’s head which I thought was a violation of the law of physics. You get to a situaton where it becomes a phycological match up to get into the late part of a seven game series.

You have to like the phycology that’s going to be in the Giants favor in a game seven, everything is off the table, game seven is a complete utter crap shoot. The crowd becomes way more important, the Giants going to game six have to put up a run or two in the first two or three innings that it takes the crowd out of the game. If you remember the KC crowd are very loud and very enthusiastic also they have 29 years experience with failure.

Their going to be expecting the worst, their going to be trying to come back in this series the Royals have not trailed in the post season at all and have not faced an elimination game. The Royals have not faced a elimination game all year. This is the first time you can expect that true possibility of the Giants of actually putting the Royals backs to the wall at Kaufman Stadium and if you take them out of it early the Giants could take some pressure off themselves.

Outstanding is the word I can use in talking about Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford’s World Series. What you want from a shortstop is that great glove. Crawford has provided that and anything that he can do with a bat is a bonus, he’s hitting in the eighth hole and that’s what you expect for production. He’s had mulitple RBIs in multiple games, He’s the first shortstop in Giants history to drive in three runs in a World Series game.

The Giants and Royals completed batting practice on Monday and are all set for Tuesday night at 5:07 PM PDT for the first pitch of game six at Kansas City’s Kaufman Staidum.

Michael Duca is doing commentary on the 2014 World Series for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

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NCAA Football commentary: LSU just gets by Ole Miss; Buckeyes roll on Lions; Arizona gets big win over Wash St

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by Michelle Richardson

LSU (7-2) 10 vs. Ole Miss (7-1) 7: LSU have been struggling when their at home they can let the good times roll too but in that game on Saturday for the most part it was a high scoring game it was only a 10-7 victory for LSU. Miss St scored in the first half and it was very much a defensive struggle. For total yards Miss St quarterback Bo Wallace had to pass and rush to get some yardage going.

Wallace threw for 176 yards and rushed for only 40 yards in 12 rush attempts. LSU had more rushing yards than Miss St and Miss St had more passing yards. Strangely enough LSU had a rough time with four turnovers but they controled the ball better they kept the ball for 36 minutes and Miss St kept it for 24 minutes. This is just one of those flukey kind of things that LSU turned nice flour into mud pies.

Honestly this wasn’t a great game by either team LSU just scraped and scrapped and managed to pull out a victory. LSU had good form and they needed this victory because they were number 24. Michigan State moved up into eighth place in the AP Polls.

Ohio St (6-1) 31 vs. Penn St (4-3) 24 (2 OT): This was a hotly contested game as two teams are rivals when they meet just like when Ohio St meets Michigan. The Penn State fans found out what hotel the Buckeyes were staying at and went and blasted music outside their hotel in the middle of the night. I guess you got to do what you got to do for your team.

Ohio State they scrapped through and managed to come across with a victory, they know that anytime they play Penn State the Nittany Lions are going to give them their best game. Ohio State knows that Penn St is their rivals. The Lions are the Buckeyes neighbors to the east and it’s a big rivalry for them. When it gets down to it it’s all about that ball handling management.

Ohio State possessed the ball for 34:24 and that was almost the full six minutes more than Penn State. They both had turnovers, Ohio State had to turnover more third and fourth down conversions, it was a game where it came down to who could get the job done. The Buckeyes had built a 17-0 lead and they were cruising to a win and then Penn State defensive tackle Anthony Zettel made an interception and returned it for 40 yards. The game went to two overtimes and Ohio State got the game winner in the second overtime.

Arizona (6-1) 59 vs. Washington State (2-6) 37: Airing it out is what the Washington State Cougars do and since the Cougars head coach Mike Leach is back he’s all about airing it out. That’s kind of what he does and as I’ve been saying week after week. Arizona is trying to be in a coversation with some of the other top teams in the NCAA and their a one loss team right now.

The Pac 12 is not getting a lot of respect when it comes to talk about the National Title games. Washington State had a whopping 543 yards and Arizona had 451 yards. The Cougars quarterback Connor Halliday threw for four touchdowns and he was picked off two times. It’s never a good thing and Wash St had more turnovers as opposed to one turnover made by Arizona.

Arizona won this game and did a good job, they clearly out muscled Washington in the first half of the game but the problem is Arizona got a little laxed because Washington State came back and scored 21 points in the fourth quarter. This is a game that could have got out of hand if they had a little more time. You have to watch out for teams like Wash St they haven’t been very competitive for the past few years and some teams say “it’s just Washington State” and get laxed but the Cougars were making a few move towards towards the end of Saturday’s game

Michelle Richardson does commentary on the NCAA each week for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

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Raiders commentary: Oakland looking for that first victory against Hoyer and the Browns

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by David Zizmor

ALAMEDA–The Cleveland Browns (3-3) have been okay this year that’s saying something good about the Browns because they always find a way to mess things up. They had a decent run this year, they really have a strong offensive line. They added running back Ben Tate from free agency he’s been a pretty strong running back. The Browns have tight end Jordan Cameron whose been dinged up a bit the real surprise has been quarterback the starter Brian Hoyer a former Ohio State quarterback a local guy.

Fans really love to see Hoyer do well as he’s a former Ohio Buckeye and he’s starting for the Browns. Hoyer has been surprsingly good, he’s not a guy whose going to go to the Pro Bowl but this is a guy whose not getting the minimum salary per year but he’s one of the lowest paid quarterbacks in the NFL.

He’s been pretty successful because he doesn’t have much of a track record and the guy everyone thought Hoyer would be throwing to is the best receiver in football Josh Gordon whose been suspended all year. Gordon hasn’t been on the field yet and he won’t be back until mid November. The Browns have a serviceable offense and they have some pretty good guys on defense.

There still the Cleveland Browns there’s always somnething going on, they seemed to look good for a couple weeks and then they take two steps forward and then they take one step back, then they take one step forward and take two steps back. They find a way to disappoint everyone in Cleveland which as far as Cleveland sports teams go this is par for the course.

This is a team that the Oakland Raiders (0-6) are capable of beating, the Browns aren’t so good that they could just assume their going to win. The Raiders as we’ve seen in the last few weeks have been making these games competitive and staying in these games late. You saw it a couple of weeks ago against the Chargers they took San Diego right to the limit.

The Chargers won only on a field goal, with Arizona they had a little bit of an easier time and the Raiders were only one score behind at the beginning of the fourth quarter they were hanging in there. The problem is the Raiders are always going to have is they just don’t have the talent. So it’s really about working hard avoiding mistakes, avoiding penalties and if they can do that they can hang in some of these games.

Cleveland isn’t so talented that their going to blow the Raiders off the field so that helps, the Raiders will have to play a really, really good game this Sunday and on the road and a place to win like Cleveland that’s always going to be difficult. They can pull it off and they have to avoid any mistakes and they have to have really good games with their skill guys.

David Zizmor covers the NFL for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

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49ers commentary: Patrick Willis one of the key players in tough loss in Denver

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by Daivd Zizmor

SANTA CLARA–It’s tough to characterize a loss when you lose 42-17 which is not good, it was one of those situations in Denver last Sunday where the 49ers were kind of in it in the first half and then some bad things snowballed and got out of control and then the game slipped away. The Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning was gunning for that down pass record which he got.

There was a lot of energy in the stadium and on the Broncos because of that, the 49ers on the flipside they’ve suffered a lot injuries on the other side of the ball to the point where very few guys starting on defense last year which is crazy. The number of guys that were out on the defensive side of the ball was ridiculous.

Patrick Willis being the key player among them, that makes it really difficult when your going against an offense that’s potent as Denver is. The biggest problem for the 49ers was that the defense couldn’t stop anyone. The offense didn’t execute very well either. Kaepernick looked pretty good in this game and Vernon Davis continues to have an off year.

Davis dropped a lot of passes that he should have cuaght, wide receiver Anquan Boldin dropped a pass and it would have been a touchdown had he caught it and it changed the complexion of the game. The fact that 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick was having trouble completing passes. He was making good throws which was making it more difficult to win.

The fact that the 49ers defense couldn’t stop anybody was just a lost cause and remnember this is a team that was coming off a road game in St.Louis and then having to play on a Monday Night and going into Denver Sunday night and the 49ers had a very short week that makes it even more difficult. It was a rough week as the 49ers get healthier and they used this bye to get some of their guys back that will help out.

Police investigating McDonald case got free tickets from 49ers: San Jose Police were accepting free tickets from the 49ers had to pay the 49ers back for the tickets because of the impression that it gave during the lineman Ray McDonald investigation case. The police reimbursed the 49ers on behalf of Assitant Chief Eddie Garcia and Deputy Chief Jeff Marozick.

Garcia and Marozick violated the department’s policy against accepting tickets to profession sporting events. The department is investigating a domestic violence call from McDonald’s home on August 31st. McDonald’s girlfriend reportedly had bruises on her neck at the time in question. Police have not finished their investigation into the case and McDonald is still acitve on the 49ers.

David Zizmor covers the NFL for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

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2014 World Series Commentary: Strickland will not be the goat for Giants going off track

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by Michael Duca

SAN FRANCISCO–Giants relief pitcher Hunter Strickland and the near brawl in Kansas City in game two last Wednesday has nothing to the do with the Giants losing game two or having anything to do with the Giants going off track and losing game three either.

The Giants have not lost their poise due to Strickland’s actions and the Giants turned on six pitches and the Giants Hunter Pence was thrown out stealing. Pence who had a base hit and the Giants only had four hits and they have to capitalize on it and there was no problem with Pence’s steal attempt and it was done at the proper time and they just threw him out by a fraction of a foot.

It was a great performance by both pitchers the Royals Jeremy Guthrie (1-0) and the Giants starter Tim Hudson (0-1). Guthrie and the Royals bullpen of Kevin Herera, Brandon Finnegan, Wade Davis, and closer Greg Holland stopped the Giants after the sixth inning. The Giants Javier Lopez gave up a hit that wound up allowing the third run. Lopez though continues his streak with 19 straight post season appearances until reliever Jeremy Affeldt past him up with his 21st post season appearance.

Affeldt got charged with a run that puts him behind only former Yankee releiver Mariano Rivera on the all time list in 21 games. The Royals pitched well in game three on Friday night there are no two ways about it. They located their pitches, Herera had difficulty with his command and it was surprising that they doubled switched and they pinched hit for Herera when he came up with a runner at first base with two outs.

Royals manager Ned Yost said that Herera’s arm bounces back a little faster and he can sit between innnings and come back and throw and Davis cannot. Their absolutely commmitted to going with Herera, Davis and Holland in that order and not letting anybody else break into that sequence. So that’s what the Royals did and it worked well for them. More power to them they have the better team.

They were ready from the first pitch when Hudson threw it to start the game and the Royals hit it hard scoring the opening run of the ball game in the top of the first to get things going. Then after that it was a lot of ground balls until the Royals picked up two more runs in the top of the sixth inning. It was rock solid in the middle of the game between Guthrie and Hudson.

20 straight batters came to the plate and they were scored outs from both sides of the dugouts. It was a well played, well pitched game. The Giants third baseman Pablo Sandoval made an brilliant play on a ball that was hit by a shattered bat. Pieces of the bat and Sandoval had to bare hand the ball and it nearly eluded his arms reach. Panda was able to reach out and pluck it in the air, juggle it, get a grip on it and throw it to first base. It was an absolutely top notch World Series play.

Michael Duca is doing commentary on the 2014 World Series for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

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PGA report: PGA president gets sent packing after tweeting golfer Poulter is a “Lil Girl”

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by Jeremy Harness

PGA President Ted Bishop who tweeted and facebooked sexist remarks regarding golfer Ian Poulter on Thursday saying he was like a “Lil Girl” tried to defend himself in front of the PGA of America Board but later was voted out for impeachment. Bishop who later apologized was impeached by the board for writting remarks about Poulter writings in his book about Nick Faldo’s 2008 captaincy and Tom Watson’s captaincy for this year.

Bishop said that when Poulter was writing about Faldo and Watson regarding the Ryder Cup Captaincy Poulter didn’t stack up against Faldo who had won six majors and Watson who had won eight majors and called Poulter a “Lil Girl” in his tweets and facebook opinions. Bishop said of Poulter’s writing of Watson and Faldo in his book “Really? Sounds like a little girl squealing during recess, C’MON MAN” wrote Bishop.

Bishop who had one more month left on his two year contract was relieved of duty as PGA President and has immeditately been banished from attending any PGA events including PGA Championships, Ryder Cups or any other benefits that past presidents of the PGA now enjoy. He will not be allowed on any PGA golf courses ever again.

Bishop apologized to his family and to the board and anyone who might be offended by his writings. PGA chief executive Pete Bevacqua said that the president has the responsibilty to uphold a certain standard and Bishop forgot himself when reiterating on Poulter’s remarks from his book, “The PGA of America understands the enormous responsibiltiy it has to lead this great game and and to enrich lives in our society through golf. We must demand of ourselves that we make golf welcoming and inclusive to all who want to experience it, and everyone at the PGA of America must lead by example.” said Bevacqua.

Bishop had tweeted to Poulter after attending the Greenbrier on Thursday with Faldo telling Poulter regarding some of his passages in his book on Faldo and Watson, “Faldo’s record stands by itself, six majors and all time RC points. Yours vs. His, Lil Girl” Sources say that some women PGA golfers were offended by Bishop’s remarks and that they voiced objections to Bishop’s “Lil Girl” remarks which might have set Bishop’s demise this in motion.

The PGA has 27,000 members and 1,100 of them are women, Bishop got the consquences of his tweets and has accepted his banishment from the game, “this is a classic example of poor use of social media on my part and if I had a chance to hit the delete button on the things that I sent out yesterday, I would without hesitation, the PGA of America has asked me to avoid any interaction with the media in the past 24 hours and that is why I did not issue a formal apology which I have wanted to do since early this morning.” said Bishop

Jermey Harness covers the PGA for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

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Thats Amaury’s News and Commentary: All Royals need to do is win one game over the weekend to send it back to KC

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by Amaury Pi Gonzalez

SAN FRANCISCO–As all of you know I’ve broadcasted most of my career in the American League making me an American League guy and I have been covering American League teams for a long time although years ago I broadcasted with the Giants in the National League. I have said this all year, I said it in L.A. on Fox Sports, on the Angels Spanish network, the best bullpen in baseball is the Kansas City Royals.

The Giants have a very good bullpen with Jean Machi, Javier Lopez a specialist for lefties, then you have Sergio Romo who is not good this year let’s face it. The best bullpen in baseball is the Kansas City Royals. If the Royals get a starting pitcher for 5.1 or six innings like what happened on Wednesday night with Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura.

The Royals have the best relievers in the game in the sixth you have Ventura who throws 101-102 MPH, then in the eighth you have Wade Davis another flame thrower who has a great slider and a splitter. Then in the ninth you have closer Greg Holland one of the best closers in baseball. So the formula for the Royals is to have a decent starter.

Of course it’s tough to come back for the Giants in a game like Wednesday to come from being five or six runs down in a World Series. We saw what the Royals did on Wednesday they scored five runs and Giants starter Jake Peavy just got tired. These things happen the Giants have a very good bullpen. They used Tim Lincecum on Wednesday night and he has back problems.

According to Giants manager Bruce Bochy Lincecum is not that serious, but they have a problem in the bullpen. The Giants need to have their pitcher last a little bit longer than KC. The Royals have pitchers that can throw and get out of an inning and they have a potent bullpen.

The Royals have been winning with that bullpen all year long and they have centerfielder Lorenzo Cain. Cain is a tremendous athlete. Cain is the best athlete amongst these two teams. In the line up the Royals have Alex Gordon, Billy Butler who hit pretty well especially against guys like that. This going to be a very interesting rest of the way in this series.

If the Giants win the next three games in San Francisco they win the World Series but all the Royals have to do is win one out of three to take it back to Kaufman Staidum. This may go six or seven games maybe all the way. It’s going to be a game to game World Series, the Giants want to sweep over the weekend in AT&T Park but it’s most likely that the Royals at minimum can win one of the next three games at AT&T forcing a trip back to Kaufman.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is doing News and Commentary on the World Series for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

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