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				<title><![CDATA[Meche blanks Diamondbacks 5-0]]></title>
				<description><![CDATA[KANSAS CITY, Mo.(AP) -- Gil Meche wanted to finish what he
started.

Meche pitched a four-hit shutout and Mark Teahen had three hits
and drove in a run as the Kansas City Royals beat the Arizona
Diamondbacks 5-0 Tuesday.

After eight innings and 110 pitches, Royals manager Trey Hillman
came over to Meche in the dugout and said, "nice job."

Meche, however, was not about to turn this game over to the
bullpen, although Hillman had Joakim Soria and John Bale warming
up.

"If I was really tired or if I felt my arm was getting heavy
after 110, I would have taken myself out," Meche said. "It is my
career, too. By going out there, I've got to make sure I'm good
enough to throw. That's why I made the decision. I told him,
'Look I feel fine. Let me go out there and get it.' So he let me
do it.

"I think everyone in this clubhouse understands when the
starting pitcher has a chance to get a shutout, you don't want
to waste it. It doesn't happen too often, especially for me.
It's good to finally get one as a Royal. I don't have too many
complete games (six), much less shutouts, and I wanted to go out
there and get this one and felt I had a good chance to do it.

"It took a lot of pitches, especially on the last guy, he was
killing me, but I was able to finish it."

Stephen Drew flied out to David DeJesus in a 10-pitch at-bat to
end the game.

"Anytime a pitcher can go a complete game shutout, even though
it took him 130-plus pitches, it's a good performance,"
Diamondbacks manager A.J. Hinch said. "He got the outs when he
needed to get the outs. He controlled multiple pitches and
pretty much shoved it down our throat. Meche was pitching on
fumes at the end, and he found a way to finish it off.

"Defensive plays, whether it's clutch hits, retiring the first
batter, you've got to make plays, and they made more than we
did."

Meche's shutout was the second of his career. His other came on
Sept. 12, 2004 against Boston while with Seattle. It was his
first complete game since Sept. 24, 2007, a 3-2 loss at
Baltimore.

"It is something about the heat that brings back the Cajun in
me," Meche said. "Pitching in summer leagues and in high school
(in Louisiana), sweating my butt off, something about it I like
doing it. One thing that helped me out was (Doug) Davis worked
so slow, it helped me out between innings, kinda caught my
breath, cooled off in the batting cage with the AC. I felt
pretty fresh."

Meche has dominated interleague play, improving to 14-4. His
.778 winning percentage against the National League tops all
active pitchers with at least 20 interleague starts.

"He threw four pitches for strikes," said Ryan Roberts, who had
one of the Arizona hits. "He got the ball down and got us to
swing at his pitch."

Meche (4-5), who threw a career-high 132 pitches, held the
Diamondbacks to four singles, while walking one and striking out
six. Meche, who is 3-0 in four career starts against Arizona,
has not allowed a run in his past two starts, covering 16
innings.

Teahen doubled to right to leadoff the second and scored on
David DeJesus' single. Teahen's two-out single in the sixth
scored Mike Jacobs, who had doubled.

Miguel Olivo's fielder's choice grounder in the first scored
Willie Bloomquist. Olivo has nine RBIs in the past seven games.

Billy Butler's sacrifice fly in the fifth scored DeJesus with an
unearned run. DeJesus led off the inning with a walk and
advanced to third on a Drew throwing error on a Willie
Bloomquist grounder.

The Royals padded their lead in the eighth, which Jacobs led off
with a double and scored on Alberto Callaspo's single.

Diamondbacks starter Davis (3-8), who is 1-5 in his past nine
starts, left after 5 2-3 innings, allowing four runs and six
hits. He walked three and struck out five.

The Royals have won four straight to open this nine-game
homestand against National League clubs. The Royals are 16-5 in
their past 21 interleague games.

NOTES: Royals RHP Kyle Farnsworth had four stitches in his left
index finger after being bitten while breaking up a fight
between his two bulldogs. Manager Trey Hillman said he does not
expect Farnsworth would miss any time since the wound is to his
non-pitching hand. ... Diamondbacks RHP Max Scherzer, who went
to the University of Missouri, will start Wednesday, his first
career appearance against the Royals.]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Diamondbacks-Royals Preview]]></title>
				<description><![CDATA[By NICOLINO DIBENEDETTO
STATS Writer

Arizona (27-37) at Kansas City (28-34), 8:10 p.m. EDT

The Kansas City Royals are looking to build on their first
three-game series sweep of the season. A matchup with the
last-place Arizona Diamondbacks may provide the opportunity to
do so.

The Royals try to extend their winning streak to four Tuesday
night when they open a three-game interleague series with the
struggling Diamondbacks.

Kansas City (28-34) beat Cincinnati 7-1 on Sunday to complete
its first three-game series sweep since Sept. 22-24. The club
swept consecutive two-game sets from the Chicago White Sox and
Seattle last month.

Those victories were part of a season-high six-game winning
streak, which the Royals followed up by going 7-23 before
beating the Reds 4-1 on Friday.

"A lot of us have brooms we haven't pulled out in a while," said
Royals right fielder Mark Teahen, who went 5 for 11 with a homer
and two RBIs in the weekend series. "It's nice to get those out
and use them a little bit. We're getting it going in the right
direction. We didn't play the way we wanted to in May."

Gill Meche (3-5, 3.70) will try to help Kansas City get off to a
strong start in this series while building on one of his best
performances of the season.

The veteran right-hander equaled his career high with 11
strikeouts while yielding four hits in seven innings of a 9-0
win at Cleveland on Wednesday. That performance snapped a
stretch of seven starts without a win, during which he went 0-3
with a 4.02 ERA.

"I felt absolutely horrible warming up in the bullpen," Meche
said of Wednesday's outing. "It's weird. I just went out and
tried to attack the (strike) zone and things fell in place."

Meche is 0-3 with a 5.93 ERA in six starts at Kauffman Stadium
this season, but 2-0 with a 2.95 ERA in three career starts
against Arizona.

The Royals have split 12 all-time meetings with the Diamondbacks
but have taken four of the last five, winning two of three in
the most recent matchup June 13-15, 2008. The teams haven't met
at Kansas City since 2003.

The Diamondbacks (27-37), last in the NL West, are coming off a
2-4 homestand that was capped by Sunday's 8-3 loss to Houston.
Arizona is 0-4-2 in six series since taking two of three at
Oakland from May 22-24.

"It's good we're playing hard and working our tails off to turn
this around but the wins haven't come as well as they should
have," manager A.J. Hinch said. "We have to find a way to get
wins. It's mentally grueling. But I've said it before and I'm
sorry for saying the same thing over again. The rest of the
league doesn't care. It doesn't feel sorry for us."

Hinch will give the ball to Doug Davis (3-7, 3.65), who is
looking to rebound from his shortest outing of the season.

The left-hander gave up five runs, seven hits and three walks in
four innings of Wednesday's 6-4 loss to San Francisco. That was
a far cry from his outing five days earlier, when he yielded
three hits in six innings of an 8-0 win at San Diego.

Davis is 2-2 with a 5.01 ERA in eight starts against the Royals
and 0-1 with a 9.77 ERA in four games at Kansas City.]]></description>
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