Kansas City Royals defeat Chicago White Sox 7-6 – MLB Update
The Kansas City Royals put in a tremendous effort as they beat the Chicago White Sox 7-6 at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City on Tuesday, April 5.
The Royals’ hitter Billy Butler trimmed the two-run lead in eighth inning hammering a 419-feet grand slam to centre that allowed Alex Gordon a run. Then Melky Cabrera chipped a RBI single up the middle in the 12th inning and took the club to victory.
Chasing a six-run lead, the club might have removed the deficit in the ninth inning if Alex would have not missed a homer by inches.
The Royals paved the road to win in the 12th when White Sox pinch runner Brent Lillibridge was grabbed at second base by Jeremy Jeffress. A drama occurred when Lillibridge initially called safe by umpire Hunter Wendelstedt but his colleagues demanded him
out.
Chris Getz restricted himself to a positive game and tossed to centre moving to first base. Mike Aviles realising the situation tossed a sacrifice fly that set Getz to second base who then earned and RBI on Cabrera’s line drive to centre-field.
"These first five games have been the funniest five games I ever played in my life," said Billy Butler. "Hopefully we can get off to a good lead and just cruise to a victory."
White Sox second baseman led off the outing with his RBI single to centre. The game then tilted completely to Chicago’s side when Konerko launched a 462-feet long three-run homer to Royals’ starter Luke Hochevar increasing the lead to 4-0.
The Royals’ Gordon retaliated with his 442-feet long two-run homer to centre-field cutting the lead to half. He contributed four-runs in Sunday’s triumph over the Angels, added two doubles and two RBIs.
Right-hand pitcher Luke was not in his usual good form as he again allowed an RBI triple to Alexei Ramirez in the sixth. Luke tossed 101 pitches and consumed six runs while striking-out just one. Relievers’ Aaron Crow, Joakim Soria, Robin Tejeda, and Kanekoa
Texeira pitched scoreless spells in the later part and did not allow the game to fall in Chicago’s side.
White Sox starter Gavin Floyd, who was the manager’s top prospect, went for four early runs and considered it the worst performance for any hurler. Manager Ozzie Guillen having full faith on Floyd ability seemed disappointed and said, "When you score four
runs in the first inning you feel pretty good when Gavin Floyd is on the mound.”
Floyd pitched seven innings and gave away four runs on four hits including a home-run in the bottom of the first inning and struck-out five batters.
The Royals managed to restrict the White Sox offence to take a convincing victory in the end.
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