Royals beat Blue Jays in Major League Baseball series opener

CITY-It was a game that should have had a manufacturer’s label affixed to it. Kansas City has scored 21 runs while winning its last three games, and 1B Eric Hosmer and DH Kendrys Morales have each driven in five during the span. 3. Alex Gordon gave the Royals their first lead of the game with an RBI double, and Alex Rios drove in another with a single. That chased Price but the scoreboard kept turning with Alex Rios’ RBI single off reliever Aaron Sanchez.

Wade Davis enters at pitcher for the Royals. Herrera threw nine pitches, all strikes, in his one inning. Outfielder Lorenzo Cain later singled in a second run. He encountered trouble in the third inning, which led to two runs.

The Blue Jays led the major leagues in runs in 2015 by a huge margin – 127 runs more than anyone else.

The Royals and Blue Jays met in the 1985 postseason, with Kansas City rallying from a three games-to-one deficit to win the series.

The Royals are the 26th team in LCS history (AL and NL) to take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven series. The righty broke onto the scene in 2014 and was lights out all the way to the World Series, earning himself an extension prior to this season.

Game 3 is in Toronto on Monday night.

Perhaps the Jays were messed up in the head, first time in a week they were playing a game and not facing elimination.

Price, a Cy Young candidate again after an 18-5 mark this season, came into the game with a 2-6 post-season record but 0-6 as an a starter with a 5.23 ERA and.

Rookie Noah Syndergaard will start for the New York Mets in Game 2 of the NL Championship Series against the Chicago Cubs on Sunday night.

Price has easily been one of the best pitchers in the American League for years, the kind of guy that makes a team feel nearly assured of a win when he takes the mound. His six innings were a profession high for a postseason begins. He had started six times against Toronto in his career and emerged battered nearly every time: 0-4 with a 6.46 ERA. He had been tied with Randy Johnson at six. The total, meanwhile, is sitting at 7.5 runs.

Manager Ned Yost faced a decision point in the top of the sixth with the Royals trailing 1-0 and the Blue Jays’ Nos.

Chris Colabello doubles to centre field. With his double in the third, Pillar has now hit safely in 21 of his last 25 contests, batting. The baby was with her mother in the front row as the Blue Jays played the Texas Rangers. David Price worked around an Alcides Escobar lead-off single and a Ben Zobrist fielder’s choice (upon review) in which the switch-hitter beat out the throw on the back-half of a would-have-been double play. Donaldson – after a pop up behind the plate hit a support wire, negating the catch made by Perez, the catcher – reached on an infield single. It was a gritty seven-pitch at-bat for Encarnacion after falling into an 0-2 hole.

Jose Bautista went down looking in the fourth inning, while Edward Encarnacion struck out looking in the sixth.

NOTES: C Dioner Navarro was in the Blue Jays’ lineup, not C Russell Martin, as he developed into RHP Marco Estrada’s personal catcher….

Tulowitzki came into the game in a 2-for-25 slump.

A microcosm of what ailed the visitors was evident in the events of the sixth inning, when the Jays forced Volquez to throw 37 pitches – and that would be it for Volquez, as it turned out, all pooped out and worn down after throwing a total of 111 pitches for the evening, and walking four.