“After that I just kept doing the same thing over and over and it started going my way but I don’t think much changed from the first inning on”. Hutchison left after Cain’s leadoff single and Aaron Loup came on to face Eric Hosmer, who hit a slow grounder to third.
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Estrada (8-6) allowed two runs and three hits in 5 2-3 innings.
Cueto took the hill with a three-run cushion. Toronto has not said when Price will make his first start but Sunday is a possibility.
Donaldson went 3 for 4 with a walk and two RBIs.
Looking to give their new ace a few additional run support, the Royals’ offense finally struck in the sixth inning.
Hutchison lasted only one batter into the sixth.
Tulowitzki singled to center and Goins scored when the ball got past Cain for an error. Kansas City’s starters have underachieved and been hurt by injuries. K.Herrera pitching. Encarnacion walked, Bautista to second.
The Royals will remove either Jeremy Guthrie or Chris Young from the rotation to make room for Cueto. He allowed hits to all four hitters he faced.
Valencia played in 36 games when he was with the Royals and had a. 296 batting average with two home runs, eight runs, and 11 RBI.
The game was decided by one final detail, a battle of the bullpens. Cueto’s WHIP is the fourth-best the game and he ranks in the top-15 in all of baseball in ERA, while also posting his usual high number of strikeouts.
“In that position, at 3-1 in the count, I looked for a pitch I could drive”.
Toronto lit up reliever Ryan Madson, who entered with a 1.69 ERA.
The teams exchanged zeroes throughout the eighth and ninth innings, sending the game into extras. Tulowitzki was only a step or two off the bag at the time, and he has not even attempted to steal a base all season. Luke Hochevar blew through the heart of the Toronto order on six pitches in the ninth.
“That’s a tough group to pitch against”, Price said of the Jays. Neither was available Friday.
Hochevar continued to roll into the 10th, working around a one-out single to keep the Toronto bats at bay.
Toronto Blue Jays third baseman Josh Donaldson, right reacts with first base coach Tim Leiper, left, after hitting a RBI single to defeat the Kansas City Royals during 11th inning AL baseball action in Toronto on Friday, July 31, 2015. Martin flied out to center fielder L.Cain.
By the time Cueto exited, the Royals were ahead, however, 6-3.
The Blue Jays (53-51) have won three in a row while the Royals (61-41) lost their third in a row.
For the Reds, the best asset they get from the deal, as CBSSports.com points out, could well then be Finnegan, the 17th overall pick of the 2014 draft. Nothing in Morales’ delivery was abnormal than any lefty’s move to first base. His only real blemish came in the first inning, when he gave up two runs on a double to Kendrys Morales. Donaldson had little chance at a throw, but he let fly, anyway.
But, after the first inning Blue Jays starting pitcher Marco Estrada settled in and finished his night with 5.2 innings pitched while letting up only those two runs on three hits while walking none and striking out three.
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Had the Royals not just acquired Ben Zobrist from the Athletics, I would be saying that the Kansas City Royals should be all over getting Valencia.
