“After struggling so much this year and just having the success I’ve been having in the last couple of weeks, it’s been nice to contribute and helps us win games“, Carter said. 188 with one RBI, five strikeouts and no walks over five games and had not recorded an extra-base hit, yet he batted fifth in the starting lineup while going 1-for-4. And, further, we’d prefer the league to protect players out of a sense of right and wrong rather than the desire to avoid criticism.
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“I wanted to be aggressive in the strike zone”, Rios said. And it looks like after this and a rash of other recent incidents, dating back to Jung Ho Kang’s season-ending injury last month, that Major League Baseball will not only suspend Utley but change the rules governing slides. “I mean really did”. I think we ended up seeing 53 pitches in the eighth inning. The Royals were trailing 6-2 at the time, and this was only their third hit of the game. “Obviously, to get that many bases runners in a row, that’s good team offense”.
Keuchel wasn’t as sharp as he was in New York, but he was able to tiptoe out of trouble again and again and got deep in the game despite a pitch count that got high early. Now, they’re a game away from going home to clinch the series behind David Price. Let’s go boys. That was an unbelievable inning. Royals manager Ned Yost opted to save RHPs Kelvin Herrera and Ryan Madsen for Game 4 once the Royals fell behind Sunday. Alex Gordon then grounded out to bring home the go-ahead run.
Correa added a leadoff single in the ninth and finished 4-for-4 with four RBIs and two runs scored.
Plunked by Yordano Ventura his first time up, Correa answered with a solo homer to tie it in the third.
Anyway, you tend to win if you hit home runs, and you tend to lose if you make a lot of throwing errors. On Friday, they were up 4-2 entering the bottom of the sixth behind a decent outing from Scott Kazmir, who’d looked bad over the past month.
Notes: Astros manager A.J. Hinch reaffirmed his commitment to DH Evan Gattis despite Gattis’ postseason struggles.
GLAD HE’S OK: Two pitches before his home run, Perez fouled a ball into the stands down the first base line and it struck a young boy.
Rangers got one back in the seventh inning and they go into the next match still knowing a win will seal victory. The key was Dallas Keuchel, whom Kansas City managed to wound but not kill.
Meanwhile, Colby Rasmus continued to enjoy the best week of his, or anyone’s, life.
The Astros first three runs came off of Royals starter Edison Volquez, who threw 5.2 innings and let up the three runs on five hits while walking four and striking out eight. For sheer humor and absurdity, that was my favorite play of the weekend.
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They took advantage when Astros shortstop Carlos Correa couldn’t handle a deflected grounder that might have been a double-play ball, rallying for five runs in the eighth inning to beat Houston 9-6, forcing their playoff series to a decisive Game 5.
