“I’m frustrated”, Paxton said. The Royals have been shut out in 10 games this season.
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No unexpected wild-card ride into October this year. “Let them catch their breath, get refocused now that they’ve accomplished the main goal that we wanted to accomplish this year”. “We are only three games out (in wild-card race) and we have 10 games”.
The Pirates will visit the Chicago Cubs in a game with NL wildcard implications, while the top two in the AL West – the Rangers and the Houston Astros – go head-to-head at Minute Maid Park. Manager Ned Yost said Duffy would be used out of the bullpen in postseason.
Jose Ramirez, Abraham Almonte and Roberto Perez homered for the Indians.
They plan to get new shipments on Saturday, including at least a handful of those lockerroom T-shirts the players have in their washing machines covered in champagne. After struggling through his first three starts, he is 2-0 with a 1.04 ERA in his last three, though he’s still working through some things. “He has the best stuff”. Drew Butera and Christian Colon managed to walk, but Kansas City never had more than one runner on base at the same time.
Until the seventh inning, that scenario appeared possible. He had allowed two or fewer runs in each of his first five starts – a club record – but gave up two RBI singles by Brandon Phillips and left with the game tied 3-all in the sixth.
Perhaps the long inning took Carrasco out of the flow of the game. He struck out Zobrist, Paulo Orlando and Jonny Gomes three times.
Alex Rios singled for the Royals’ only hit against Indians right-hander Carlos Carrasco on Friday. Rios was 1-for-16 off Carrasco before that clean hit to center.
“Perez called a slider down and away”. “I shook to a fastball”. “This one I feel way different”. Carrasco then struck out six straight Royals before getting the final two outs on ground balls.
“We’ve got to continue to fight”, Cain said.
Said Francona, “Obviously, that wasn’t their A lineup”.
Along with many other projects, Sporting Innovations is now working on a mobile app that they hope to launch before next season and say that some of the features will really enhance the fan experience. He threw 113 pitches, 78 for strikes, in the first one-hitter of his career.
“He had everything going tonight”, said Francona.
Carrasco no-hit the Tampa Bay Rays for 8 2/3 innings on July 1 before losing the no-hitter with two out in the ninth thanks to former Tribe outfielder Grady Sizemore. They are 11-10 as the underdog against fellow AL Central members, and 30-39 SU.
The Royals were 0-for-17 with 12 strikeouts against Carrasco’s off-speed pitches. Carrasco and fellow Indians starter Corey Kluber (230 strikeouts) are only the second set of Cleveland teammates to each have 200-plus punchouts in the same season. He pounded the zone.. It nearly seemed like they didn’t know what was coming.
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Fortunately, CEO Scott Blackmun said, “unlike the Seahawks, we have not lost the game”. “I’m going to give them a day to kind of relish in it”.
