Royals Drop Series at Baltimore

Since the start of the 20th century, six teams have hit grand slams in the same inning.

“Yeah, it was insane”, Reimold said. Rios hit a sacrifice fly to center fielder A.Jones, K.Morales scored, S.Perez to second.

“He’s had his challenges a little bit since the trade”, Showalter said.

No one else emerged from the either dugout during the potentially volatile situation, although Davis glared at Morales while taking his base.

Los Angeles’ Corey Seager had four hits including his first career homer as the Dodgers went deep four times in a 9-5 win at Arizona. “He’s just going through a stretch right now”.

That guy on the right was dealing; he was in total command of his pitches, dominating the hitters and also the game, the moment, the whole field. Or maybe Buck wanted to troll Ned Yost, who was notorious a year ago especially for being too rigid in when to use his relievers. The players have welcomed him with their arms open, trying to treat Cueto as something more than a hired gun – or, in the case of Sunday’s 8-2 loss to the Baltimore Orioles, a dreadlocked anchor dragging down their ship. “But that pitch wasn’t on goal”.

When leading after 7 innings, Kansas City is 32-19, while Baltimore is 24-23.

Yes, the Royals still have the lead at two and a half games, but the Blue Jays won two games on Saturday to narrow the margin. We understand we’re a good ballclub. Like I said, I get that teams go through several slumps during the span of the year.

Miami’s Jose Fernandez returned from injury and became only the third pitcher since 1914 to win his first 16 career decisions at home as the Marlins beat fading Washington 2-0.

There’s no love misplaced between the Orioles and Royals courting to final yr’s American League Championship Collection, when the Orioles have been swept in 4 video games by Kansas Metropolis. Baltimore must win 13 of its last 22 games just to finish.500.

Davis added the fourth homer against Cueto with another solo shot in the sixth and Baltimore led 6-2. Edwin Encarnacion had a home run hat trick and had nine RBI on August 29. The Cardinals tied the score in the fifth against Raisel Iglesias on Kolten Wong’s run-scoring infield single and Matt Carpenter’s RBI single.

RHP Wade Davis was still battling some issues with shoulder stiffness, and that’s why Yost wanted to hold him out another day. Meanwhile, Steve Pearce, one of the surprise contributors (21 HR, 24 2B in 102 games) of 2014, is hitting.221 with 10 HR in 71 games. It was just the third time this season Wieters caught back-to-back games.

Johnny Cueto and Royals fans weren’t smiling much Sunday night. Cueto has a 9.45 ERA in his last four starts. At this point, I still want him starting Game 1 of any playoff series over any other Royals starter. Sports writes. “All it took to readjust that number down significantly, the GM said, were Cueto’s last five starts, in which he gave up 48 hits and 30 runs in 26 1/3 innings”.