Royals Win First Game Of Homestand — SPORTS ROUNDUP

Seattle Mariners starting pitcher Wade Miley delivers to a Kansas City Royals batter during the first inning of a baseball game at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., Saturday, July 9, 2016. Seattle entered the game tied with Minnesota with the worst fielding percentage in the American League (.981), and Servais had recently called a team meeting to address it. He needed just 35 pitches to get through his first five innings, 46 through six and 57 through seven. 3B Kyle Seager (.280 AVG), RF Franklin Gutierrez (.246 AVG), LF Daniel Robertson (.400 AVG), and 1B Dae-Ho Lee (.291 AVG) each connected for a double on the night for Seattle (Lee- his 4th of season, Robertson- 1st, Seager- 25th, Gutierrez- 6th). Kansas City came back to win 4-3 on a two-run double by Salvador Perez. In the last 25 games, Kansas City has hit. Miley is a cromulent lefty that the Royals supposedly had some interest in last winter, and he’s the kind that they tend to struggle against. The Seattle Mariners have an ERA of 3.93 and have lost five of their last seven games when allowing more than three runs.

As what he saw at the plate on the wild pitch, Cruz offered: “Just balls flying all over the plate”. “The story of the night is definitely our pitching”. Kansas City is 44-42 overall, 28-12 at home and 44-37-5 with the under. In their 14 wins, the Royals have batted.

Wade Miley goes against Edinson Volquez this afternoon in the oddly-timed 3:15 start. Cishek gave up 2 runs on 2 hits (both earned) while striking out 1 Royal in his outing.

Part of the problem is that Kansas City does not take a lot of pitches.

Carpenter, named Tuesday to his third NL All-Star team, is the third St. Louis player in three days to go on the DL, joining Brandon Moss (ankle) and Brayan Pena (knee).

“We haven’t played well on the road of late”, Mariners manager Scott Servais said. “So that’s what happens, you saw guys turn double plays”. If the other guy is throwing strikes, they’re going to be swinging the bat. It felt pretty good. He threw 68 pitches going into the eighth inning. “We’ve been close in the majority of our ballgames this year”. We ended up losing the game.

Not to mention ruin what should have been Paxton’s big night. But we still found a way to win the ballgame.

The Mariners appeared well on their way to ending their road slide after Nelson Cruz’s 23rd home run of the season gave them a 3-0 lead in the top of the eighth inning.

Iwakuma (9-6) left with two outs and runners on the corners in the seventh. Diaz is batting. 319 with 12 home runs, 44 RBI, 22 doubles, 54 runs scored, a. 382 on-base percentage and a. 534 slugging percentage. He struck out five in the first three innings. The Royals were swept of a three-game set by Toronto, have been outscored 25-9 during their four-game skid and suddenly find themselves eight games behind first-place Cleveland in the division. His ERA is at a 2.84.