Raul Mondesi, Alcides Escobar and Cheslor Cuthbert led off the inning with singles.
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CARDINALS 1, BRAVES 0: Cardinals starter Jaime Garcia pitched eight scoreless innings and had an RBI single at St. Louis. Kansas City RF Lorenzo Cain had an RBI triple in the series opener to extend his hitting streak to four games and is 17-for-52 in 13 career contests versus Toronto.2. Mondesi had broken for third, even though the bag was occupied by Butera and in the ensing rundown, Butera was tagged out to end the inning. Jarrod Dyson then got a pinch-hit single that likely would have scored Orlando from second base.
Kendrys Morales delivered a grand slam home run and Yordano Ventura shut down the Blue Jay offence as the Kansas City Royals rolled to a 7-1 victory.
“I think the last start was probably the best start of my career”, Duffy said. “That’s what we need out of him”. Somedays you’re not going to have your best stuff. He came out and battled.
Only two balls left the infield and both balls were singles, yet the Royals scored three runs.
“I was fighting the whole game”, Ventura said with catching coach Pedro Grifol as his interpreter. Something that we felt the team would like to.
YANKEES 13, INDIANS 7: Starlin Castro hit a third-inning grand slam off Josh Tomlin that gave the Yankees a six-run lead at NY, while Jacoby Ellsbury had his first four-hit game since May 3 past year.
Sanchez rebounded to strike out Morales swinging and retired Salvador Perez on a ground ball on the first pitch to strand the runners. “If I could go back, I don’t think I’d take anything back”.
“Our goal is to win every series”, said Marcus Stroman, who started for Toronto on Sunday and was tagged with the loss, allowing three runs over five innings.
Moylan has now worked two days in a row and Friday had an up-down – he got one out in the seventh, sat down and then got up again to pitch the eighth – so he might not be available on Sunday, but if Moylan’s able to pitch Ned might find a way to match him up against Devon Travis. Encarnacion stepped on the bag as Mondesi broke from second base with third base already occupied by Drew Butera. “They’ve got enough things on their mind”, Gibbons said to reporters. “They don’t have to beat you with homers. I was trying to keep my team in the game and they did the rest”. They’re a real good hitting team.
Escobar homered – only his second of the season – to lead off the fifth. After retiring the first two batters, Ventura walked No. 9 hitter Darwin Barney.
“It’s not like I thought he was out there distracted or rattled or anything”, Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. But sometimes somebody can go to a new place and it sets them off in the right direction and, who knows, he could be great for us. We’ve been kind of in a little rut, so we’re due to explode. Recently acquired from the Pittsburgh Pirates, Francisco Liriano made his long-awaited debut for the Blue Jays.
With the Blue Jays up 2-0, Alex Gordon led off the fifth with a single, and Paulo Orlando followed that up with an infield single. Tampa Bay will start RHP Jake Odorizzi.
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Royals: After a day off Monday, Edinson Volquez will start Tuesday against the White Sox. After pitching to a 5.33 ERA through his first 16 starts, the 25-year-old has logged a 3.52 ERA over his next seven, demonstrating much better command of his pitches.
