Indians Lose in 9th Inning

He hit his 3rd home run of the season and scored 3 runs, which may not sound like a lot, but stands out in a week when the entire team scored only 13 of them. “It’s freaking baseball. It sucks”. 422 with five homers and 19 RBIs against the Indians this season. Hosmer’s 11th homer of the season occurred immediately after Lorenzo Cain was caught trying to steal second base. “I know how much we all want to bring fans to the stadium and give them something to root for, but it’s just not getting done”. However, second baseman Omar Infante ran it down on the grass and flipped the ball with his glove to shortstop Alcides Escobar, who grabbed it barehanded and threw out Perez.

Things have been clicking ever since for this group from the heartland, and it was on full display on Tuesday night at Progressive Field against the Cleveland Indians. “Those guys up the middle never seem to surprise us with the plays they make”. Instead, Holland goes on to nail down the save and the Royals are one win closer to a second consecutive postseason berth.

“The feeling is if we’re tied or with the lead after the fifth inning we stand a great chance of winning with our bullpen, ” manager Ned Yost said.

After celebrating with handshakes and high-fives, the Royals walked off the field as dozens of blue-clad Kansas City backers lined the rows behind their first-base dugout.

In 2013, the Royals ran off a 43-27 record in the final stretch, and in 2014 they went 41-27 to end the season.

Cueto, who won 20 games for the Reds last season, will make his debut for the Royals on Friday in Toronto.

Game 1: Eddy will square take his last turn as staff ace with Johnny Cueto joining the team tomorrow, but Volquez is hopefully continues his steady season. He praised Kansas City owner David Glass and general manager Dayton Moore for making the move, and for the one to acquire utilityman Ben Zobrist and $2,598,306 from Oakland.

Ortiz homered into the center-field bleachers, the 486th of his career, in the first, about 90 minutes after the club traded outfielder Shane Victorino to the Los Angeles Angels in a deal for a minor league infielder. With two outs and nobody on, Cain hit a fly ball to deep right center.

But the Royals added three runs in the fifth on Hosmer’s RBI single and a two-run double by Kendrys Morales, who has 11 RBI against Cleveland in 2015. After a brief review, the umpires upheld the original call. Bourn led off with a single.

Kansas City Royals’ Lorenzo Cain, right, slides safely into third base for a triple as Cleveland … He was the star of the Tribe’s one victory, with 4 hits on Wednesday, including a home run. Right-hander Chris Young started for the Royals and pitched 4 2/3 innings and only allowed one unearned run. Urshela drops out for me because while his slash line is the best of the three position players nominated, he put it up in only 15 plate appearances, compared to 25 apiece for Brantley and Lindor. The Royals become the first team in the American League to reach the 60 win mark and only trail in state rival St. Louis for the most wins in all of Major League Baseball. In the Central Division (and given their season-long consistency), their 7.5 game lead over the Twins must feel substantial since the Tigers, White Sox, and Indians can’t even stay above the.

If Anderson can get back to his first-four-starts performance level, he’ll have the No. 5 spot in the Indians’ rotation all locked up for quite some time.