In fact, Davis was the other Wade on Saturday night at Safeco Field.
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The Royals are back in the run column and back in the win column, to improve to 13-11.
Miley wasn’t as crisp in his first three starts this season, including a frustrating outing in Cleveland where he didn’t make it out of the fourth inning.
SEATTLE (AP) Wade Miley downplayed his first career shutout, but his Mariners teammates were a bit more effusive. He also had a nice leaping grab in the 9th for the second out.
“I’ve been through this a hundred times”, Royals manager Ned Yost said. “It was outstanding. I thought Chris Iannetta did a great job calling the game with him tonight”.
The Mariners have won five games in a row and clinched their fifth consecutive series after a 3-6 start to the season.
“Our club is playing well”, manager Scott Servais said. “I don’t think we were going to turn two anyway”.
“I didn’t have very good command all game”, Ventura said through a translator. Their first hit of the game was a solo homer by Seth Smith in the first inning of Royals starter Yordano Ventura. He surrendered six hits and one run in seven innings while walking one, lowering his WHIP to 0.96. Cruz drove in a run when he was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the sixth, giving Seattle a 6-0 lead. Cain had a pair of hits and an RBI for the Royals, while Seattle got two apiece from Cano and left fielder Seth Smith. Before whiffing on ball four, Morales hit a long foul ball just wide of the pole in right field on a 3-2 count.
Hosmer extended his hitting streak to a career-high 18 games with a second-inning swinging-bunt single just to he left of the mound. Despite the 1-hit performance on Friday, he still hasn’t found a groove in 2016.
Kansas City didn’t go quietly in the ninth.
“It’s a complete-game shutout and those are hard to come by in any league, especially this one”, Servais said.
The Royals haven’t scored since the first inning of Wednesday’s 4-2 loss to the Angels and have totaled seven runs in their last five games, dropping their season average to 3.35.
This was a 429-foot bomb to center on a 95-mph fastball from Ventura…and it was just the start.
That quickly, it was 4-0.
Miley benefited from a successful challenge in the third. That forced Alcides Escobar to stay at third.
Vincent retired Cain on a grounder to second. DP: Kansas City 2 (Hosmer, A.Escobar, Hosmer), (A.Escobar, Hosmer); Seattle 1 (K.Marte, Cano, Lind). Smith popped to third, and Robinson Cano flied out. Walker, (2-2, 1.44 ERA) will look to help the Mariners complete the sweep of the Kansas City Royals who have lost 5 straight games. A shutdown inning. Miley was rolling.
Kansas City Royals starting pitcher Yordano Ventura wipes his brow during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Seattle Mariners, Saturday, April 30, 2016, in Seattle. 298 and his on-base percentage to.423.
Kansas City (13-11) won for the first time in a week, while the Mariners suffered their first loss in six games. He has 12 starts in right field this season.
QUOTABLE: Wade Miley on getting his first career shutout: “It’s cool”.
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“I feel like we’re going to win every night”. “I was trying to get quick outs, and it worked out…” Dating to 1913 when ERA became an official stat in both leagues, Hernandez has the third-best April ERA (minimum 200 innings pitched) at 2.41. Alex Gordon started it when he was hit by a pitch.
