Kansas City Royals edge Oakland Athletics 3-2 – MLB Update
Kansas City Royals continued to find winning ways against the inform Oakland Athletics as they secured a narrow 3-2 win at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri in second game of their three match series.
The Royals, who shut out the A’s in series opener, continued to impress the critics with another masterful performance in Game 2. Manager Ned Yost, in particular, will be glad to see his team back on the winning streak. Royals’ chances of making it to the
playoffs are very thin but they can certainly cheer up their fans by giving similar results on regular basis.
It will be interesting to see if Yost and company can maintain their stunning form in the finale to earn a rare series sweep this season.
Oakland, on the other hand, will be extremely disappointed with the way they have performed over the last few days. However, despite losing two against Kansas City, they are placed second on the American League West Division standings, six games behind Texas
Rangers.
Billy Butler provided the Royals with an excellent start, earning an RBI groundout in the first. Lorenzo Cain delivered an RBI double to left in the seventh to keep Royals in the game. Chris Getz delivered the go ahead double to left in the seventh and the
Royals held off the Athletics to complete a deserving win.
"Will did a good job of battling without his best stuff," Royals’ manager Ned Yost said. "I thought his fastball was flat at times. He battled through the sixth and seventh and kept us in the game. Early in the game, he was struggling to get the ball down
with all of his pitches.”
"The thing that was so impressive about tonight's game, a young pitcher on the mound without his best stuff and he's competing his tail off and keeping his club in the game and that's a tremendous sign for a young pitcher to be able to do that,” he added.
Starting pitcher Will Smith pitched seven effective innings, allowing just five hits and two runs for his fourth win of the season. Greg Holland made the save by pitching a scoreless ninth.
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