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ve Games Played TodayDiamondbacks affiliates went three for five on the day , with Reno losing and Jackson splitting the double header.Pitcher Of The DaySam Lewis, Jackson Generals 4.0 scoreless innings pitched, four strike outs, one walk and four hits allowed. Hitter Of The DayAndy Young: 2-2 with home run and a walkReno Aces 3 Fresno Grizzlies 6Vinny Nittoli got the start and was roughed up for six runs, four earned, on seven hits and two walks in just three innings. The four earned runs came via long ball, with a two run homer in the first and third inning, and the unearned runs coming courtesy of errors by Abraham Almonte and Yasmany Tomas. Alex Young followed up with three scoreless inning, allowing just a hit and a walk, while striking out four. Robby Scott pitched an inning and a third scoreless innings, allowing a hit and two walks while striking out two. Rubby De La Rosa would allow a hit in two thirds of a scoreless innings.The Aces only had three hits in the game, with two of them coming courtesy of Kevin Cron, who was 2-4 with a double and knocked in all three of the Aces’ runs in the eighth. Travis Snider had a solid night despite going hitless by drawing three walks in the game. Caleb Joseph also reached twice with a walk and the only other hit of the night. Jackson Generals 1 Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp 2The Generals picked up where they left off in yesterday’s game with a 1-0 lead in the top of the first, but despite runners on base, they weren’t able to score any more runs in the inning, or the rest of the game. Instead of Bo Takahashi, Matt Peacock got the start, and though he was solid in five innings, he still was tagged with the loss due to a lack of run support. Peacock allowed two runs on six hits and a walk and struck out three. Tyler Mark allowed a hit and two walks in two scoreless innings. Bud Jeter replaced Tyler Mark, and pitched a scoreless inning, despite giving up two hits, two walks, and a wild pitch in the eighth inning. thanks to a well timed double play.Pavin Smith was hitless, but walked twice, and scored the lone run of the game in the first. Jeffrey Baez was 2-4, and knocked Smith in the first , while Ben Deluzio had the only other hit of the game.Jackson Generals 2 Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp 0The Generals rebounded with a seven inning shutout, with just enough offense to win it. Sam Lewis went four innings and allowed four hits and a walk, and struck out four. Ryan Atkinson pitched a perfect fifth inning, and struck out one. Kevin Ginkel pitched two scoreless innings, allowing a hit and a walk, while striking out two. Andy Young was 2-2 with a walk and a solo homer to lead off the game yesterday. Jamie Westbrook was 1-3 with an RBI double.Visalia Rawhide 9 San Jose Giants 3Travis Moths got the start, and went three and a third innings, giving up one run on three hits and three walks, and struck out five. Cole Bartlett went three and a third innings as well, with three hits, allowed no walks or runs and struck out three. Junior Garcia went two and a third innings, and allowed two runs on three hits and a walk, and struck out four. Visalia’s offense combined for ten hits and five walks, with every Visalia batter getting at least one hit, except for Camden Duzenack who did reach base via walk. Ryan Grotjohn was 2-4 with a double, Anfernee Grier was 2-3 with a double and a walk. Mark Karaviotis and Luis Alejandro Basabe both tripled and walked. Kane County Cougars 4 Clinton Lumberkings 3Franklyn Soriano got the start for the Cougars, and pitched four and a third innings, giving up two runs on three hits. Soriano struggled with his command, issuing four walks and hitting a batter. Ethan Larrison struck out two intwo innings, and allowed a run on a hit and a walk. Chester Pimentel allowed two hits and two walks, while striking out two in two and a third scoreless innings to close out the game. Down 2-0 in the sixth, the Cougars would get a run across the board to make the score 2-1, but an Alex King home run with two on in the eighth is all the offense the Cougars would need to scratch out a win.Geraldo Perdomo went 2-4 with a double, scoring a run and knocking in the Cougars first run of the game. Tra Holmes was 2-3 with a walk and a stolen base. LT Tolbert was 2-3 with a walk. The Royals are video game fast"The summer before last I bought my first NBA 2K game because it was cheap in the summer Steam sale and, well, why not. Surely NBA 2K17 , bought at that point at the low price of $15, would yield some fun. It did indeed; I quickly got into the franchise mode in 2K17. In fact, I got a little too good at it, manipulating its draft system to get great players and pulling off trades that would never happen in real life. See, in real basketball, players lower down in the two-round, 60-player amateur draft can make a big impact. For instance, Monte Morris, selected 51st overall in the 2017 NBA draft, has thus far outperformed Lonzo Ball, selected second overall in the same draft, at the exact same position of point guard. In sports video games, it is extremely difficult to account for that variance in talent, so stockpiling top draft picks guarantees you to succeed in a way it doesn’t in the real world. Because I was able to play the system so optimally, I eventually got bored and started to do crazy things. My tinkering peaked with what I called the Really Big Dudes team. My entire 15-man roster was made up of power forwards and centers at least 6’10”. The team’s core consisted of Anthony Davis, DeMarcus Cousins, Kevin Love, and Kristaps Porzingis. I did not expect the team to do well. The game disagreed. The team smashed its way through a simulated season and eventually swept the NBA Finals thanks to a stifling defense and absurd rebound figures.The Kansas City Royals are run like a real life team and not a video game team. That being said, it feels like the Royals are currently constructed in the same way that my Really Big Dudes squad was. Whereas I constructed my team with the question, “What happens if I put together a team solely consisting of really big guys,” the Royals front office seems to have asked “What happens if we put together a team of really fast guys” and then taken that to the extreme.Fresh of his nice, shiny extension, Whit Merrifield led the American League in stolen bases in 2017 and Major League Baseball in 2018. If Adalberto Mondesi had played as many games as Whit in 2018 and maintained his pace, he would have stolen over 20 more bases as Whit. New Royal Billy Hamilton once stole over 50 bases in 2014—and then did it again in 2015, 2016, and 2017. And while Terrance Gore hasn’t yet had playing time as a regular in the Majors , he has swiped bags at an almost incomprehensible 87% clip in 31 career stolen base attempts.Kansas City ain’t gonna be good next year. After the 2018 All-Star Break, when the Royals finally honed in on their roster that will comprise a majority of 2019’s roster, the team won 46.3% of their games. Over a full season, that equates to a 75-87 year. That, pretty definitively, ain’t good, and there is no guarantee they’ll be that good anyways. Ryan O’Hearn is not hitting 53% above league average next year, for instance.But heck, darn do I appreciate the Royals front office for adopting a very specific and devil-may-care attitude for this season. It’s something I’d do in a video game. How many bases can a team steal? Well, let’s put Merrifield, Mondesi, Hamilton, and Gore on the same one and find out. It’s gonna be bad, sure, but why not?We’re all just biding time anyway until the Royals’ current crop of talented youngsters—the crop that includes Khalil Lee, Seuly Matias, MJ Melendez, Nick Pratto, Brady Singer, Jackson Kowar, the second overall pick in the 2019 draft, and more—so we might as well have some fun while we’re at it. God, can you imagine the Four Horsemen of the Base Stealing Apocalypse hitting back-to-back-to-back-to-back? Fun doesn’t have to be good. You can’t control if you’re good, not if you’re rebuilding, but you can be fun. I love it.