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Gordon's 9th inning homer leads Royals (AP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:06:10 PDT
With one swing, Alex Gordon turned a miserable night at the plate into a glorious ending. Gordon stranded six runners in his first three at-bats, including striking out with the bases loaded in the third and grounding into an inning-ending double play in the fifth with runners on the corners. Gordon, however, made amends by hitting a three-run homer with two outs in bottom of the ninth as the...
Umpire Bell leaves game in 6th inning (AP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:59:42 PDT
Home plate umpire Wally Bell left the Baltimore-Kansas City game in the top of the sixth inning Friday night because of heat exhaustion and dehydration. The 45-year-old Bell, who had open heart surgery in 1999, was led off the field by Royals trainer Nick Kenny. The umpire wasn't taken to a hospital.
Interest in O's Wigginton waning? (Yahoo! Sports)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:42:14 PDT
Things were going the way of the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday. First the team finally got around to hiring Buck...
Royals Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:30:50 PDT
pWith Scott Podsednik traded to the Dodgers, it opens up a gap at the top of the Royals' batting order and in left field./p pPodsednik had been the leadoff hitter in 65 games, including nearly all the games since Ned Yost took over as manager on May 14. Yost said he would go day to day when determining his leadoff man./p pWillie Bloomquist hit first Thursday in a 6-5, 11-inning loss to the Orioles. Yost said second baseman Chris Getz "when he plays" can bat leadoff. He said Mitch Maier could lead off, and he mentioned that Jason Kendall "has led off before."/p p"It's not earthshaking," Yost said. "It's not a big major problem. We don't have a prototypical leadoff hitter. Some clubs don't.
Wigginton's sac fly leads Orioles to win in 11 (AP)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:55:30 PDT
Ty broke the tie between two struggling American League clubs. Ty Wigginton's sacrifice fly in the 11th inning broke the game's final tie and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Kansas City Royals 6-5 on Thursday night to snap a five-game losing streak. Corey Patterson homered with two outs in the eighth off Kansas City's Robinson Tejada and tied the score 5-5.