McCutchen connected off Michael Lorenzen (3-6), and Jung Ho Kang had three doubles and drove in a run as the Pirates got their first win of the season in Cincinnati after four losses.
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Baseball often disrupts well-laid plans. He has hit as many as 27 home runs in a season, and collected 91 RBIs on two separate occasions.
“We had to have this one today”, Royals manager Ned Yost said. “It made my slider better and harder”. The Kansas City Royalsremain the favorites at 7-2. Ben revere’s ground ball fielder’s choice put runners at first and third for Donaldson, but he grounded out to end the game.
“He knows the situation”, said Toronto manager John Gibbons, whose team headed into the day two games out in the American League wild card race. “I get it out of the way so we can move forward and not have to worry about that”. Instead of imploding, Ventura recovered to complete seven frames. Up to that point, veteran southpaw Mark Buehrle had flummoxed Kansas City. But in the sixth, down four runs, their bats came alive.
“It feels incredible”, Zobrist said.
Of course, Amaro and the Phillies are trying to get back to a championship level – or at least get out of the Major League Baseball basement – and finally stopped talking about rebuilding and simply carried through on a clubhouse detonation. “You just see the resilience, the steadiness”. Zobrist doubled to right, A.Escobar to third.
One terrible moment from the game: after Hutch allowed a leadoff hit to Lorenzo Cain in the 6th, Gibby pulled him for Aaron Loup to face Eric Hosmer, the lefty.
Buehrle exited for the eighth.
Foremost among them are three highly ranked Double-A prospects, outfielder Nick Williams, catcher Jorge Alfaro and pitcher Jake Thompson. “I just snuck the barrel out there and was able to sneak it down the line”. That’s what you’re trying to do. He scored on Morales’ sacrifice fly off Bo Schultz. And the Royals would need it.
Royals: RHP Wade Davis (back) was unavailable.
The Astros made a splash Thursday when they traded for Brewers center fielder Carlos Gomez just a day after he was supposedly traded to the Mets. The next batter, Edwin Encarnacion, flied out to the wall.
Get your popcorn ready, Blue Jays fans.
“If I wasn’t on the interstate, I probably would have done it. But with those cars flying by, I went and stood in the grass”. Their Rookie of the Year candidate Carlos Correa has impressed everyone since being called up from Triple-A earlier in the season, while their second basemen Jose Altuve continues to put up incredible offensive numbers as he was selected to his second All-Star team in as many years. He looked indomitable at the outset.
With two outs in the fourth, Ventura slopped a curveball over the middle.
Hutchison left after Cain led off the sixth with an infield single to second.
Smoak’s hit tied the game. “That’s a tough lineup”.
Wacha gave up four hits and a walk while fanning seven. And why pitch to Josh Donaldson with an open base anyway? He had picked up a pair of groundouts in his first two duels with Donaldson.
Montero, 25, is back this season for the third time. Zobrist can run, hit and field and is an asset to any team.
The defending World Series champions acquired one of the hottest pitchers in the majors. (I really think he’s one of the key difference makers on the Jays this season.).
Yet the Royals still rallied for the ninth.
The inconsistent Orioles offense seems to have awakened since they returned home last week and the addition of Parra should help, but they have to prove they can win on the road and another big test – a grueling 10-day trip to the West Coast – looms ahead.
“You have to execute each pitch”. A single by another pinch hitter, Chris Colabello, meant Donaldson would nearly certainly bat.
“I texted him. I said, ‘Stop following me, ‘” Chamberlain said, then laughed, while talking with reporters in the Coca-Cola Field dugout before the Buffalo Bisons took on the Pawtucket Red Sox Friday night. “But they came out and had that big fifth inning, and you’re staring at the barrel of losing three straight”.
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“Ace goes out there and gives us two more shutout (innings), which helped our bullpen out tremendously”.
