The Royals have only been no-hit twice in their history, with Nolan Ryan in 1973 and Jon Lester in 2008 doing the honors.
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The crowd of 32,244 reveled in the moment. The Royals clinched the division with a win over the Seattle Mariners Thursday night. “I think we have the talent in this room to do it…. So it doesn’t necessarily allow us to do as much one to one with the fan, but there is a lot of logistical operational things that we can do at the venue here with that knowledge”, Himstedt said. That placed heightened stress on a bullpen not equipped for the task.
“I was a little concerned”, Yost said and laughed that Carrasco might throw a no-hitter. “I’m going to give them a day to kind of relish in it”.
“He was electric”, Yost said.
Fortunately, CEO Scott Blackmun said, “unlike the Seahawks, we have not lost the game”.
The 15 strikeouts were the most by one pitcher against the Royals since Roger Clemens struck out 18 on August. 29, 1998 when he was pitching for Toronto.
Medlen has won both of his career starts against the Indians with 11 hits in 13 1-3 scoreless innings. The Royals exploded for seven runs over the final three innings to leave no doubt, Thursday night would be the clinching night with ten games left on the regular season schedule.
In the seventh, the game faded out of reach for Kansas City.
Pirates 5, Rockies: Pedro Alvarez hit a go-ahead, three-run homer in the eighth inning, and Pittsburgh earned its 10,000th win since joining the National League. Shortly thereafter, the champagne popped.
Cueto (3-6) was 0-5 in his previous six starts.
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.
The loss dropped the Mariners to 74-79 with nine games remaining. Past year they made it to the Fall Classic as a wild card team, but fell to the San Francisco Giants in Major League Baseball’s title series.
Johnny Cueto picked up his first victory in almost six weeks, and the win, coupled with Minnesota’s loss to Cleveland, ensured the title. Having said that, I will now make two predictions. J.C. Ramirez replaced Paxton, who was led off the mound by the trainer.
Franklin Morales was on the hill when the seventh inning started, but he allowed four baserunners while recording just one out. Guaipe ended the inning with no damage, which permitted the Mariners to take the lead in the fourth.
The Royals went to their customary roach and roll style to hang up a pair in the bottom of the seventh: hit batsman to lead off, fly out, walk, RBI single, intentional walk to set up a double play, and a run-scoring infield force.
Third baseman Mike Moustakas homered to lead off the Royals second.
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Eric Hosmer hit a solo shot to center in the fifth to tie the score at 3.
