With the win, he improved to 11-3. He’s 7-0 in his last nine starts. He lasted 6 2/3 innings for the win, giving up three runs, two earned, while striking out seven for his 11th win of the season.
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“There has been a couple times where he’s come up to me and apologized”, Francona said.
Salvador Perez not only started the All-Star Game, but has caught the first five games after it.
Brian Flynn, the Royals’ 6-7 lefty, took the loss.
Flynn (1-1) yielded three runs, four hits and a walk while striking out one in 2 1/3 innings.
Naquin, a 2012 first-round pick, is tied for first among AL rookies with 12 home runs, while his 26 extra-base hits, .326 batting average, .636 slugging percentage and.387 on-base percentage tops AL rookies.
Justin Upton’s 200th career homer gave the Detroit Tigers a 1-0 win over the Minnesota Twins with Matt Boyd tossing six scoreless innings with seven strikeouts. It was his 11th homer and three are against the Royals. KC is coming off a World Series championship but as is the case with most teams at the to of the line they are without some of those catalysts this season and they have really missed the presence of a guy like Johnny Cueto on the mound, despite his rocky tenure with the Royals.
Salazar pitched with the lead the entire way after Napoli’s homer in the first inning, his 21st of the year just skirting inside the left-field foul pole.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) – A person familiar with negotiations says the New Orleans Pelicans and second-round draft choice Cheick Diallo have agreed to a three-year contract at the National Basketball Association minimum, with a team option in the third season. The Mariners, who had managed just one hit in eight innings off Sale, rallied against closer David Robertson, who had recorded 13 consecutive save opportunities.
Austin Adams, the third of five Indians pitchers, gave up four runs in the eighth while retiring only two of the six batters he faced.
“Right in front of our eyes we’re seeing a kid get better at the major-league level”, Indians manager Terry Francona said.
During spring training, Dayton Moore asked me what all great leaders had in common and I was about to say they’re short and have ego problems – turns out that wasn’t the right answer.
The Indians made it 3-0 in the third on Lindor’s sacrifice fly. He blanked the Royals, just like Corey Kluber did in the Monday’s loss, for the first five innings. Napoli, Lindor and Carlos Santana provided the pop each contributing two RBIs a piece.
The Indians tacked on a run in the fourth, when Jose Ramirez walked with one out and advanced to third on Lonnie Chisenhall’s single to shallow center.
They scored a run in the second on a single, a walk and two sacrifices. Santana, who had his 15-game hitting streak broken Monday, hit a two-run single to right. It was Uribe’s third RBI in the last two games and 25th of the season.
The Indians own the best record in the AL at 55-38.
Salazar threw 104 pitches, 68 or 65 percent for strikes. Cleveland had been playing shallow in center and right field all game long and Colon burned them.
He gave up a sacrifice fly in the seventh before Kyle Crockett finished the frame. However, Gonzalez slid in ahead of the force play, which set up Lindor’s sacrifice fly.
The Indians and Royals drew 31,144 fans to Kauffman Stadium on Tuesday night. The heat index was 101.
Cleveland’s first four homers were off Ian Kennedy (6-8), whose weird pitching line included eight strikeouts and only one walk.
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Anthony Rizzo’s three-run homer helped the Chicago Cubs to a 5-1 win over the New York Mets and Christian Yelich’s RBI double edged the Miami Marlins to a 3-2 win over the Philadelphia Phillies.
