Sports Today (Late Games) 10/25/2014

Now for the rest of the games today:

College Football
#10 Northwest Missouri State at Fort Hays State
After last week homecoming thrashing to Pitt State the Bearcats will have to travel all the way across the state of Kansas to Fort Hays to play the one team who has beat Pitt State this year. In a year where no DII team is flawless I felt Northwest may have been the closest before last weekend. The Bearcats need to regroup this week because a second loss now would likely leave them outside of the DII playoffs since Region 3 has so many good teams (there will be several good teams that will not make the playoffs). I think last weeks loss will get this team refocused and look for Northwest to bounce back. Northwest 31 Fort Hays 13

Royals World Series Game 3 Review

You could not have asked for a more typical Royal's game. Scratch out a few runs, get a very good starting pitching performance and the bullpen closes it out for a 3-2 with and a 2-1 lead in the World Series. The Royal's are two wins from winning the World Series. As pointed out last night all the Royal's have to do in the next 4 games is go .500 and they will win.....just let that think in for a moment.

The game started with Escobar driving a ball deep into the left field corner, which looked like it had a chance to get out, but started off with a lead off double. Then as the Royals in two outs they were able to work Escobar around to score and get the Royals off to a 1-0. Guthrie pitched a very good game and gave up 4 hits in 5 innings. Through 5 innings Guthrie had only faced one over the minimum thanks to Salvy catching a runner trying to steal. In the 6th inning Escobar got his second double of the night with 1 out. Then Gordon got going and hit another double scoring Escobar. Then with two outs birthday boy Hosmer came through with what turned out to be the game winning RBI hit and a 3-0 lead. In the bottom of the 6th the Giants finally got to Guthrie with a single and an RBI double (the only extra base hit the Royals would give up in the game). Herrera came in the game in the 6th inning again and walked the first batter, was able to get the next three batters out while letting one more run score, leaving the Royals with a 3-2 lead. Starting off the 7th Herrera was able to get an out and allows a walk which lead to Finnegan coming in to the game, yes the pitcher who in June lead TCU to the College World Series. All he did was got both batters out including a strikeout to end the inning. Davis looked great striking out 2 in the 8th and Holland got all three outs with out a ball getting out of the infield. 

Spots Today (Early Games) 10/25/2014

Since I am running a 5K this morning I wanted to go over a couple early games that I have on my mind. I will be back later to go over a few more big college football games and game 4 of the World Series.

Arsenal at Sunderland
This is a huge game early in the season for Arsenal, while they only have one loss, they only have two wins. Arsenal played a mid-week Champions League game on the road and scored two late goals to win. So they have a little momentum on their side. Sunderland however is coming off a huge 8-0 defeat last weekend in the BPL. While these teams have similar records records and Arsenal are fighting injury problems (like they always seem to do) I feel Arsenal is the better team. However I think Sunderland is going to come out at home and prove they are better than last weeks result. I want to pick Arsenal in this game, but I keep coming back to a draw, so I am not sure which team it will be, but one of them will score a late goal to tie it up. Arsenal 2 / Sunderland 2

Halloween Hustle 5K

It is race morning, doing the Halloween Hustle 5K at Unity Village this is race 6 of 8 in the Holiday Races. The weather is suppose to be beautiful when the race starts with temps in the  upper 50's. I am not be wearing a costume, but my daughter is in her cat costume. Not sure if I will be pushing her in her stroller for the start of the race or if my wife. Either way looking forward to get the race started.