The Nos. 7-9 hitters in Kansas City’s lineup combined for eight hits in Tuesday’s 8-4 victory, capped by Paulo Orlando’s three-hit, four-RBI night. But Scherzer blinked first, with Michael Conforto and Curtis Granderson each hitting solo home runs to give Syndegaard all the runs he would need.
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Omar Infante and Alcides Escobar also drove in runs for Kansas City. The right-hander went the distance for eight innings, his second complete game in his past three starts, while allowing only five hits with six strikeouts and one walk. He allowed four runs and seven hits before exiting with a one-run lead. O’Sullivan was fortunate enough to receive 13 runs in his first start on Tuesday versus the Oakland Athletics, as he surrendered four runs on 12 hits over the course of six innings. Dyson also threw out the tying run at third base in the eighth inning, helping Kansas City preserve a 3-2 win over the Red Sox. The Red Sox have homered in 19 straight games, equaling a club record set in 1996.Salvador Perez cut the lead in half when he parked a Price first-pitch 92 miles per hour fastball over the center-field fence with two outs in the bottom of the fourth.Paulo Orlando walked and Whit Merrifield singled, his first big league hit, with one out off Price in the fifth, but the Royals came away empty.NOTES: The Royals made three roster moves after the first game.
Wright had never started against the Royals and hasn’t faced anyone on the roster more than three times.
Boston actually struck first when Jackie Bradley Jr. extended his hitting streak to 22 games with an RBI double in the second, but Kansas City quickly answered in the third. Bradley Jr. batted.469 with three home runs and 15 runs batted in during the Red Sox 6-1 record last week.
The loss drops the KC Royals to.500 at 20-20, while the Red Sox climbed to 25-16. If he can duplicate those numbers or do better against the Red Sox, the Royals have a real shot at winning the game. They won their last game but have been sub-par in a 10-game stretch where they went 4-6. I was just trying to do everything I can to get through the fifth, possibly the sixth, trying to get as deep as I can. Wright said. “I think that was more crucial today knowing we had a doubleheader”.
How long Hernandez remains up with the big league team likely depends on how much the Red Sox like their expanded bullpen and the rehab of Eduardo Rodriguez. In 1940, the Little Professor, the younger brother of the MLB-hitting streak record holder Joe DiMaggio (presumably the Big Professor?), set the Red Sox record which has yet to be broken to this day. “We kept digging”, Farrell said between games. He could rejoin the Royals this weekend in Chicago. The starters for Kansas City against the Red Sox are Yordano Ventura, Ian Kennedy, and Edinson Volquez.
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“He was very good”, said Red Sox manager John Farrell, who was happy to escape Kansas City with a win after dropping the first two games of the series.
