Salvador Perez hit a two-run home run in the seventh inning off left-hander Xavier Cedeno that carried the Kansas City Royals to a 3-2 win over the Rays on Tuesday night.
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The Kansas City Royals butt heads with the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field Wednesday.
That will look to change tonight when Yordano Ventura gets the ball for the Royals.
For Kevin Kiermaier to work as the Rays’ No. 2 hitter, he has to become a complete hitter, which means he has to occasionally bunt his way on base. After Brad Miller’s infield single, Desmond Jennings scored Kiermaier with a groundout to shortstop. Over his three-year major league career, he has hit.281/.326/.399 (250-for-890) and has spent time at third base (205 games), second base (18 games), shortstop (10 games) and first base (one game).
Kendrys Morales helped Duffy secure the win by collecting two hits, one of which was a solo home run.
“I just got off the phone with Bobby and told I’m ready to go tomorrow”, said Moore, who had been scheduled to pitch today.
Kansas City took a 1-0 lead in the first with a two-out single from Lorenzo Cain and an RBI single from Eric Hosmer.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) – Anther one-run loss for the Tampa Bay Rays, another sleepless night for manager Kevin Cash.
“We just came up short with runners on base”, Cash said. Andriese returned to the rotation following Monday’s trade of Matt Moore to the San Francisco Giants. Over parts of six seasons with the Rays (2011-16), he went 39-28 with a 3.88 ERA (540-IP, 233-ER) and overcame Tommy John surgery in April 2014. Evan Longoria is 5-for-15 with three RBIs versus Volquez, who boasts a 2.25 ERA in five games against the Rays.Odorizzi is 2-0 in three starts since the All-Star break, stringing together 14 2/3 innings of scoreless baseball over the past two outings. “I’m a young player and I have to do whatever they say”.
Archer gave up three runs on six hits in 7 1/3 innings, striking out six to raise his AL-leading total to 161.
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The last-place Rays traded LHP Matt Moore, OF Brandon Guyer and INF/OF Steve Pearce – all to teams that were in first place – on Monday. “Wish we didn’t have to do that but we’ve got to do what’s right for the organization today and moving forward”.
