Young equaled a Royals record by allowing homers in 13 straight starts.
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Chris Young allowed four home runs, and the Kansas City Royals lost to the Toronto Blue Jays 8-3 on Tuesday night. His final line: 2.0 innings, three hits, one run, and three strikeouts.
ASTROS 2, MARINERS 1 Lance McCullers struck out 10 in seven innings and George Springer hit a home run to give host Houston a victory over Seattle.
It was the 34th time in club history that the Blue Jays hit three home runs in one inning. Winless in nine starts, Young described his season as “beyond frustrating”.
“So I talked to Clint Everts (a teammate at advanced-A Potomac in 2007) who had a really good changeup and asked him how he held the pitch, and it just seemed like I had a really good feel for it right away”. “It’s a frustrating feeling”. The (Jays have) to come first and if I can’t pitch for the team right now, then I shouldn’t pitch anywhere else.
The final problem? With every team required to have an all-star representative, the final six AL players left to the manager, in this case, the Royals’ Ned Yost, may be whittled down even more by the ASG need to fill a team need. “He just ran into severe trouble in the third”.
Estrada, who reaggravated a previous back injury while swinging a bat during an interleague game in Philadelphia last month, received four cortisone shots to his lower back on Monday – one each to the SI (sacroiliac) joints and one each to both facet joints on either side of his back. He was coming off a season where he put up a. 687 OPS over 75 games, but all of the sudden, he stole MVP votes.
“Mentally it’s tough”, Young said. “I’ve never struggled like this”. He was 3-3 with a 3.44 ERA in six starts in June, He took the 4-1 loss Thursday against Cleveland, allowing eight hits, one walk and three runs in seven innings.
Yost said Dickey’s knuckleball “was as good as we’ve ever seen it”.
Kansas City’s Cheslor Cuthbert hit a two run homer off Dickey and finished with three RBIs.
There is this. I liked Reyes, but I really wouldn’t want to be picking up a player who, yes allegedly, has beat on a woman. Carlos Delgado had 76 in 2003. They open their second-half schedule with five games on the road.
Royals 1B Eric Hosmer and C Salvador Perez will start the All-Star Game for the AL.
Twenty of the 26 home runs hit off Young have been solo shots. RHP Brooks Pounders had his contract selected from Triple-A Omaha. Ian Kennedy will take the mound for the Royals. Maldonado gave the Brewers the lead in the fifth when he sent Scherzer’s 2-1 pitch over the visitors bullpen for his third home run of the season.
Toronto Blue Jays’ Edwin Encarnacion congratulates Josh Donaldson after hitting his second home run of the game against the Kansas City Royals during the third inning of a baseball game in Toronto on Tuesday, July 5, 2016. Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said of Dickey.
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The World Series champion Royals will try to salvage the finale of the three-game series Wednesday in a rematch of the 2015 American League Championship Series. The game will be broadcast live on FOX with coverage beginning at 4:30 p.m. PT.
