The Royals scored 20 runs in their past nine games, while hitting.205 with a.253 on-base percentage and a.309 slugging percentage. “I don’t want to give into these guys”. Kevin Pillar led off with a double into the right-centre gap.
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Devon Travis, who has three homers in his last two games, became the first Blue Jay to lead off back-to-back games with a home run since Jose Cruz Jr.in 2000. Then, things unraveled. Travis, who is not typically the name you think of when you think of a Toronto power hitter, got around on a 99 miles per hour fastball at the belt and hit it into the Royals bullpen.
Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Aaron Sanchez delivers to a Kansas City Royals batter during the second inning of a baseball game in Kansas City, Mo., Saturday, Aug. 6, 2016. They’re also 5-0 in Duffy’s last five starts with four days of rest, are a ideal 7-0 in his last seven starts, and are 20-6 in his last 26 home starts.
It was only the sixth time this season Sanchez allowed more than two earned runs in a game, let alone a single inning.
“We had four hits that inning and three of them were infield hits”, Royals manager Ned Yost said.
According to oddsmakers from online sports book BetDSI, the Blue Jays are -134 money line favorites versus the Royals, who have odds of +124 to pull off the upset tonight at home.
Kendrys Morales and Salvador Perez singled with two out in the fourth, but the Royals failed to score as Gordon flied out to Saunders in left-field foul territory. Not his best start, but with the Blue Jays bats quiet he helped the Royals land a series win.
Suzuki had a pinch-hit infield single in the eighth inning for No. 2,999 and stayed in the game to play right field. Hosmer’s two-out single scored Mondesi and Escobar. We haven’t got a lot of hits in the last couple of weeks. Duffy had allowed just one hit over eight scoreless innings in his previous start.
“A two-homer game in the big leagues”, Travis said.
ORIOLES 7, WHITE SOX 5: Pedro Alvarez hit two solo shots to extend his homer streak to three games and the Baltimore Orioles had 16 hits at Chicago to keep pace with Toronto for first place in the AL East. The club is hitting.248 as a team with an OPS of.761. Sanchez was replaced by Danny Barnes to start the seventh, after giving up four runs on nine hits. Coming off a tough 3-1 loss in San Francisco on Sunday, Gonzalez (7-9) struck out seven, walked one and had five three-up, three-down innings.
“It was definitely stressful early on, but we sat down and we talked about it and we came up with the best possible solution”, Sanchez said. Venditte had a 5.19 ERA in eight relief appearances with Toronto before being shipped to Triple-A Buffalo, where he was 2-1 with a 4.35 ERA. They were very respectful, approachable with everything that I said.
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“I felt like I should have a say it what was going on, what decisions were being made because I was going to be the one doing it”. Others cooled themselves under an umbrella at one of the many open-air kiosks. I think at the end of it, it’s all said and done and we can move forward now.
