Danny Duffy won his eighth straight decision as the Kansas City Royals nipped the Chicago White Sox 2-1 on Thursday night.Duffy (9-1) pitched his first complete-game, limiting the White Sox to seven hits.
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White Sox All-Star left-hander Chris Sale is 0-3 in five starts since a July 2 victory over Houston.
Royals: LHP Mike Minor (recovering from 2015 labrum surgery) threw 4 1/3 innings Sunday on a rehab start for Triple-A Omaha, allowing three hits and one run against Colorado Springs.
The Royals hope to get off of the wrong side of history. We project him to hit six more jacks and post a.752 OPS over the rest of the season.
Gordon at least pulled his batting average back over.300 on Wednesday when he went 2-for-5 in the Royals’ 3-2, 14-inning win over Chicago. Drew Butera’s sacrifice bunt moved the runners up 90 feet.Ynoa got out of the jam by retiring Billy Burns on a comebacker and striking out Raul Mondesi.Duffy retired the first two batters in the second before allowing three consecutive singles to Anderson, Carlos Sanchez and Jason Coats for a run.
The White Sox scored 1st in the 3rd inning. Saturday, James Shields is in dire need of a bounce-back outing after posting a 19.89 ERA in his last 6 1/3 innings of work (last two starts, the last of which was 1 1/3 innings).
“Deception on his off-speed pitches”, Frazier said of Duffy.
Cuthbert tripled home Jarrod Dyson in the sixth, then scored the go-ahead run on Eric Hosmer’s single off reliever Carson Fulmer. Fulmer has an 8.47 ERA in eight relief appearances.
“I had it a year ago, same thing”, Gonazlez said.
“I like where his head’s at, the way they’re thinking”. Dariel, who is staying with grandparents in Florida, will see his father play in the majors for the first time this weekend when the White Sox play at the Marlins. “At some point it’s going to turn for me and hopefully I’ll get on a roll”, Robertson said.
Duffy is 4-0 in nine starts this season at Kauffman Stadium, where he has not lost since September 5, 2015, against the White Sox.
While going through his pregame routine Tuesday at Kauffman Stadium, White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu wore a sleeveless shirt that revealed the tattoo of his son’s face on his left biceps.
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Royals: RHP Yordano Ventura (7-9, 4.64), who beat Toronto on Sunday for his first win since June 17, will start Friday at Minnesota.
