Garcia is hitting.240 with 11 doubles, nine home runs and 36 RBIs in 86 games.
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PITTSBURGH – Rookie Jameson Taillon pitched three-hit ball for eight innings, David Freese drove in two runs and Pittsburgh beat San Diego. Coats went 2 for 22 with one double in 12 games in two previous stints this season with the White Sox. Gonzalez struck out a pair in a scoreless first inning before he suffered the injury against Salvador Perez.
In came Michael Ynoa, who plunked Perez with a curveball, then saw TIm Anderson commit an error behind him for quite the ominous start.
Fulmer continued the string of dominance when he struck out a pair in a ideal fifth inning.
The offense wasn’t up to the task against Duffy, who needed 98 pitches for the complete-game effort.
There’s no flawless situation for the Royals’ go-to designated hitter and home run leader Kendrys Morales to sit out a game. Jarrod Dyson ran for Morales and stole second and scored on Alcides Escobar’s two-out single.Frazier untied it in the 10th by lining a first pitch offering from Kelvin Herrera over the left-field fence with Jose Abreu and Carlos Sanchez aboard for his 31st home run, which is tied for the American League lead. That’s when he surrendered three straight two-out hits, the last an RBI single by Jason Coats. But Duffy retired Adam Eaton to end the rally and limit the damage to a run.
“You know guys have good years and you know guys have bad years”, Royals manager Ned Yost said.
The White Sox have allowed 18 runs in their last three games and five or more runs in six of their last 10 games.
“They did a heck of a job”, Frazier said of the bullpen.
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. “They put me on the DL for 15 days”. Duffy is 4-2 with a 3.45 ERA and 57 strikeouts in his career against the White Sox. Neftali Feliz got two outs in the ninth, and also gave up a single and a walk.
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Abreu’s single gave him his fifth RBI in five games – the previous four on home runs after breaking his homerless streak – and he will hope to continue his production into the weekend when his son sees him play an Major League Baseball game live for the first time against the Marlins in Miami. It doesn’t matter who is pitching. “You have to find a way to tack on”.
