The scoring was far from over, in the 3rd inning the Nationals came right back and put on 4 more runs. Anthony Rendon followed with a grounder that eluded second baseman Omar Infante. Manny Machado was 0-for-8 at the plate in the two losses, and power hitters Chris Davis and Mark Trumbo were almost as bad, with just four hits combined.The trio shook their freakish hitting funk later in the week; all three crushed home runs in a 10-2 win over the Chicago White Sox on April 28.
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Edinson Volquez (3-2) needed 29 pitches just to navigate the first inning for Kansas City, when the Nationals scored both their runs. Zimmerman drove in the game’s first run with a double, and Murphy’s run-scoring groundout made it 2-0.
“Those are the kinds of wins that help you get going”.
Zobrist’s third-inning homer put the Cubs ahead after center fielder Andrew McCutchen dropped Rizzo’s two-out liner for an error.
“I didn’t have very good command all game, ” Ventura said through a translator. Washington 2B Daniel Murphy recorded his first three-hit performance of the season on Monday – including his 1,000th career hit – to raise his batting average to.382.3.
INDIANS 4, TIGERS 0 (at Cleveland) – Corey Kluber pitched a five-hit shutout and Cleveland used a four-run fourth inning to beat Detroit or the fifth straight time. Strasburg comes off of a 5-4 win at St. Louis where he gave up two runs on eight hits and struck out nine in seven frames.
George Springer reached base in his first three plate appearances and the Houston Astros relied on their bullpen to close out a 6-4 win over the Minnesota Twins Tuesday night at Minute Maid Park.
DODGERS 10, RAYS 5 Trayce Thompson, Joc Pederson and Yasiel Puig hit home runs as visiting Los Angeles pulled out of an offensive funk with a victory over Tampa Bay.
And. did you know he still hasn’t allowed an extra base hit by a left-handed hitter yet this season? Eric Hosmer went 1-for-3 before getting tossed by home plate umpire CB Bucknor.
“To tell you the truth, it was a awful swing”, Harper said, “but it hit my barrel”.
Murphy went deep in the fourth inning before Washington continued its rally in the sixth, but the Royals hung around long enough to deliver their second walk-off win of the season. Defending world champion Kansas City has dropped six of its last seven games and been shut out in three of its last four contests.
Baltimore’s Chris Tillman tied a career high with nine strikeouts, Mark Trumbo homered twice and the Orioles beat NY 4-1, extending the Yankees’ losing streak to six games Tuesday night. Medlen has lost three straight for th e first time since July 2013 with Atlanta. “He had a big two-run single as a pinch-hitter in the Royals” comeback Tuesday night. Royals 3B Mike Moustakas was back in the starting lineup after being held of out the last two games with a swollen left thumb.
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It was hard to tell who’d been slumping more lately: Lorenzo Cain or the Kansas City Royals.
