May 10 at Comerica Park in Detroit, MI
ESPN
After a one hour, 43-minute rain delay in the bottom of the ninth, an eventful 10th inning ensued. In the top half, the Royals took a 2-1 lead on a hit by pitch of Alex Gordon, a wild pitch and Omar Infante's sacrifice fly.
Detroit loaded the bases with no outs in the bottom half (single, walk, walk) against Greg Holland. The Royals' closer then got Hernan Perez to bounce into a 5-2-3 double play, but re-loaded the bases when he walked Victor Martinez. Sticky situation, or "stickuation" (just coined it, probably won't use it again) for KC, but Holland fanned Yoenis Cespedes to end the game and the Royals won by that 2-1 score.
The Tigers also loaded the bases in the ninth against Jason Frasor before James McCann flied out to send the game to extra innings.
* Before the delay and the 10th, there was a fantastic pitcher's duel between the starters. Detroit's Shane Greene tossed eight innings of one-run ball and KC right-hander Chris Young scattered three hits and didn't allow an earned run in six innings.
* John Kruk's nickname is "Krukie" and I know this for sure because he was called it 13 times by play-by-play man Dan Shulman and Unnecessary #2 Commentator (UC2) Curt Schilling. Who knows how many times he was called it during the long rain delay, or any other time the trio is not on the air.
My guesses:
Rain delay: nine times. Example: "Think this rain will let up, Krukie?"
Off-air: an average of 5.3 times/half hour. Example: "Morning, Krukie"
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