Morales had an RBI single with two outs in the 10th inning to lift the Kansas City Royals to a 4-3 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Sunday night.
Advertisement
Texas’ Shin-Soo Choo was 3-for-4 with a double, his 15th home run and three RBIs.
In the end, a ninth-inning rally and an extra-innings victory gave yet another sellout crowd reason to celebrate an already unbelievable season in Kansas City. Ventura got a strike out and ground out to keep the Angels off the board.
That’s when Alex Rios tied the game with a sacrifice fly, marking the fourth blown save of Street’s season.
The Royals started off hot with a single from Alcides Escobar and then an RBI double from Ben Zobrist.
ARLINGTON, Texas – Adrian Beltre punctuated Texas’ seven-run sixth inning with a three-run home run in a rout of Tampa Bay.
In the bottom of the tenth inning, Ben Zobrist hit a one-out single.
Now, we’ve got a little bit of a sample size problem here, because we won’t know the total July birth numbers for Kansas and Missouri until next year, but the Kansas City Star has plenty of anecdotal evidence to suggest crazy-exciting baseball works as some kind of aphrodisiac.
In his start against the Blue Jays, Johnny Beisbol went six while giving up three runs and striking out seven. Their starting pitchers have a 5.16 ERA in the last 22 games after being at 3.53 on July 22, and Hector Santiago’s struggles have coincided with those of the team. He’s now driven in a run in 10 straight games … As for the pitchers, the Royals are the fifth-best team in the AL at limiting hits to their opponents, allowing only 8.2 hits per game so far this season. Mike Trout then made a diving catch of Paulo Orlando’s scorcher to right-center for the third out to preserve the tie. His ERA was 2.41 before the break and is 5.13 since.
He’s now allowed just six runs in four starts since his trade to Kansas City, including the shutout he tossed against the Tigers in his home debut earlier this week.
Corbin, who won 14 games as a rookie in 2013, has gone 16 2/3 innings against Atlanta in his career without allowing a run and the Braves are batting.
In the eighth inning, Calhoun homered off Wade Davis to leadoff the inning to put L.A. up 3-2.
Hosmer followed with his 406-foot shot over the bullpen in right field.
“I’ve got to pitch more aggressively to Hosmer and Butera, but sometimes you’re barely missing”, Street said.
The Red Sox have scored 37 runs on 47 hits – including a season-high 26 hits on Saturday – in their last two games after scoring 45 runs in the first 10 games of August. 500 for the first time in three decades.
Advertisement
Hopefully this type of gut-check will build so momentum that will carry the Angels over the next few days in Kansas City before they return home on Monday.
