“That’s what I set out to do”, he said.
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Elsewhere, the Cleveland Indians edged the Minnesota Twins 1-0, the Texas Rangers were too good for the Seattle Mariners 6-3, the Washington Nationals blanked the Philadelphia Phillies 4-0, the Colorado Rockies dismantled the Los Angeles Dodgers 8-1 and the Houston Astros cruised past the Oakland Athletics 6-0. In the age of Statcast and advanced metrics and electronic timing, speed can be measured to the millisecond.
Find a diagram of Fenway Park’s dimensions and it looks like it was designed by Pablo Picasso with a hangover. Heading into the top of the sixth, it looked like the Royals were not going to capitalize on the opportunity. Mondesi at the plate. Sometimes you just know speed when you see it.
– The surging Kansas City Royals exploded for eight runs in the sixth inning and blew past the Boston Red Sox for a 10-4 win in the rubber game of a three-game series Sunday night.
The surging Kansas City Royals are getting serious about this repeating thing. It also allowed Mondesi to turn on the after-burners and show his gift to the world. The error put runners at second and third with no outs.
Despite the late night, Yost was glad to be heading back to Kansas City.
So here we are: On August 5, the Royals sat at just 51-58 after a loss to the Toronto Blue Jays at Kauffman Stadium. He recorded a hit in 12 straight plate appearances. Boston has lost four of five.
After almost falling out of the playoff race, the defending World Series champs have cut their deficit to Cleveland in half and are 5 1/2 games back in the AL Central. On an nearly nightly basis, they are sending statements to the rest of the American League.
Betts launched a ball over the Green Monster at Fenway Park in the bottom of the second inning to give the Red Sox the lead at that moment. Sandy Leon followed with a fly ball to the deep center, which Paulo Orlando trotted back for only to not watch the ball into his glove. The consecutive hits streak ended when he grounded into a double play in the eighth inning of Saturday’s game (BOS 8, KC 3).
A while back I was talking to a scout and he described a player as a “Royals-type player”. Ventura walked Jackie Bradley Jr.to load the bases. Lorenzo Cain then singled to bring home Orlando.
Reliever Matt Barnes entered with one out but the bases juiced. And that was that. He drilled a 98 miles per hour fastball to the deepest part of the ballpark and took off running. Feeling beneficent, Perez chopped a grounder to third for the second out of the inning.
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It stung. The Royals scored eight runs after Rodriguez left. The Royals send RHP Dillon Gee to the mound tonight in the opener of a three-game home series against the New York Yankees.
