A loss in the finale and a win by the Orioles would drop the Angels out of a playoff spot for the first time since July 2.
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DENVER – San Diego took advantage of Colorado’s shaky bullpen and erupted for three runs in the ninth inning for the win. In fact, they didn’t get a hit against the Angels in any inning except the first and tenth. He was the old Ventura of previous year – he had all the confidence that, “Hey, you can get a couple guys on, but that’s as far as it’s going to go.'” Ventura is 1-1 with a 3.72 ERA in two starts against Los Angeles, including a 5-2 victory on April 12.WALK-OFFS1.
Dodgers starter Brett Anderson gave up a two-run homer to Todd Frazier in the first inning but limited the Reds to a run in the next five innings.
Jarrod Dyson celebrated his 31st birthday with three hits and three RBIs, and Ben Zobrist reached base four times, including three walks.
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. It was his second straight quality start.
Hector Santiago gave up two runs and three hits to the first four batters he faced, but not allow a hit after that before departing after seven innings.
C Salvador Perez returned to the lineup after missing three games with a sore left wrist. After Hosmer walked, Morales singled against Trevor Gott (2-1) as Kansas City improved to 7-2 in extra-inning games.
Street walked third baseman Mike Moustakas intentionally to face catcher Drew Butera, who was hitting.198. Paulo Orlando had a chance to win the game when he lifted a fly ball into the right-center gap, but Mike Trout made a spectacular diving catch to save the game for the Angels.
Kansas City is 5-1 in their last six game four of a series, 7-2 in their last nine games, and 12-5 in Ventura’s last 17 home starts. Shoemaker is 0-2 with a 13.50 ERA in his career against the Royals…. 33 men went to the plate in between hits, which is staggering considering how Kansas City leads the American League in batting average.
“If Jeff King had not retired and Jeremy Giambi had not been racing motorcycles, I wouldn’t be here today”, Sweeney said with a broad smile.
In the eighth inning, Calhoun homered off Wade Davis to leadoff the inning to put L.A. up 3-2. Kole Calhoun led the inning off with a triple to right field and later scored on a wild pitch from Escobar.
The Mets (63-54) lost for just the sixth time in their last 20 games.
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The Kansas City Royals continued their stellar play winning easily over the Angels on Saturday.
