Final
Orioles use 2 grand slams to rally past Royals 14-8
Sep 12, 2015 - 4:37 AM BALTIMORE (AP) The Baltimore Orioles earned a piece of history by becoming the seventh team in the modern era to hit two grand slams in the same inning.Between those two home runs, Chris Davis got plunked with a pitch. And that is why Orioles manager Buck Showalter had to watch the second home run on television.
Nolan Reimold and Steve Clevenger both hit slams during a 10-run eighth, giving Baltimore a 14-8 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Friday night.
Since the start of the 20th century, six teams have hit grand slams in the same inning. The Orioles are the only ones to do it twice - they also pulled it off in 1986 - and no team had done it since the New York Mets in 2006, STATS said.
''Yeah, it was crazy,'' Reimold said.
Baltimore trailed 6-4 in the eighth before a double, an error and an infield hit loaded the bases for Reimold, who lined a 2-0 pitch from Kelvin Herrera (4-3) high off the left-field foul pole.
Manny Machado followed with a solo shot off Franklin Morales. After Adam Jones singled, Morales hit Davis in the back with a pitch. Davis slammed down his bat, breaking it in two, as Showalter sprinted out of the dugout.
No one else emerged from either dugout during the potentially volatile situation, although Davis glared at Morales while taking his base.
''We hit a grand slam, another home run, a couple rockets,'' Davis said. ''It just didn't look right, regardless of whether it was on purpose or not.''
Showalter thought it was, and was ejected for arguing that point.
Thus, he missed what happened next: Morales lasted one more batter before being replaced by Joba Chamberlain, who yielded Clevenger's slam. Clevenger entered the game earlier in the inning as a pinch hitter.
Royals manager Ned Yost insisted that Morales was not throwing at Davis.
''You're going to react like that because it does hurt,'' Yost said. ''But that pitch wasn't on purpose. There was a lot of hullabaloo after that. But it wasn't on purpose.''
Baltimore improved to 3-62 when trailing after seven innings. Kansas City is now 63-3 when leading after seven.
Lorenzo Cain hit two solo homers and Alex Rios also connected with the bases empty for the Royals, who have lost eight of 11.
''You go through stretches like this,'' Cain said. ''We can't let it worry us. We understand we're a good ballclub. We've just got to find a way to bounce back.''
The Orioles' three-game winning streak comes on the heels of a stretch in which they lost 15 of 18.
Mychal Givens (2-0) got the win despite giving up two runs in the ninth. Fellow rookie Dariel Alvarez hit his first big league homer for Baltimore.
It was the Royals' first visit to Baltimore since last October, when they opened the AL Championship Series with two straight wins at Camden Yards and completed the four-game sweep at home.
While first-place Kansas City appears poised for a return trip to the postseason, the defending AL East champion Orioles started play Friday trailing six teams for the league's final wild-card spot. Baltimore must win 13 of its last 22 games just to finish .500.
The Royals' early 3-0 lead dwindled to 4-3 before Rios led off the seventh with a drive off Brad Brach - his first home run since July 17. Davis countered in the bottom half with a run-scoring single to increase his RBI total to 105.
Salvador Perez restored the two-run cushion with an RBI single in the eighth, setting the stage for Baltimore's grand comeback.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Royals: Reliever Wade Davis was unavailable because of shoulder stiffness.
Orioles: Jones returned to the Baltimore lineup after missing two games with a sore right shoulder. He struck out three times. ... Catcher Matt Wieters remained sidelined with a sore left wrist but hopes to return Saturday.
UP NEXT
Royals: RHP Yordano Ventura (10-8, 4.34 ERA) and RHP Johnny Cueto traded places in the rotation. Ventura will start Saturday afternoon and Cueto under the lights Sunday because he prefers to pitch at night, manager Ned Yost said.
Orioles: Chris Tillman (9-11, 5.15) owns a lifetime ERA of 6.17 against the Royals. The right-hander gave up four runs over six innings in a loss to the Royals on Aug. 27.
- KANSAS CITY: 8
BALTIMORE: 14
Final
Sep 11 11:07 PM - Mike Moustakas singles to left field. Kendrys Morales to second. Lorenzo Cain scores. Ben Zobrist scores.
Royals 8, Orioles 15 Top 9, 2 OutsSep 11 11:03 PM - Moustakas singled to left, Zobrist scored, L.Cain scored, K.Morales to second.
Royals 8, Orioles 14 Top 9, 2 OutsSep 11 11:02 PM - Clevenger homered to right on a full count, C.Davis scored, Pearce scored, Schoop scored.
Royals 6, Orioles 14 Bot 8, 1 OutSep 11 10:49 PM - Steve Clevenger homers to center field. Jonathan Schoop scores. Steve Pearce scores. Chris Davis scores.
Royals 6, Orioles 15 Bot 8, 1 OutSep 11 10:49 PM - Pearce doubled to center, A.Jones scored, C.Davis to third.
Royals 6, Orioles 10 Bot 8, 1 OutSep 11 10:40 PM - Steve Pearce doubles to center field. Chris Davis to third. Adam Jones scores.
Royals 6, Orioles 11 Bot 8, 1 OutSep 11 10:39 PM - Reimold homered off the left field foul pole on a 2-0 count, Schoop scored, Clevenger scored, G.Parra scored.
Royals 6, Orioles 8 Bot 8, 1 OutSep 11 10:30 PM - Nolan Reimold homers to left field. Gerardo Parra scores. Steve Clevenger scores. Jonathan Schoop scores.
Royals 6, Orioles 9 Bot 8, 1 OutSep 11 10:30 PM - S.Perez singled to center, L.Cain scored, K.Morales to second.
Royals 6, Orioles 4 Top 8, 2 OutsSep 11 10:06 PM - Salvador Perez singles to center field. Kendrys Morales to second. Lorenzo Cain scores.
Royals 6, Orioles 5 Top 8, 2 OutsSep 11 10:06 PM - Chris Davis singles to deep right field. Manny Machado scores.
Royals 5, Orioles 5 Bot 7, 2 OutsSep 11 9:45 PM - Joseph grounded into fielder's choice, third baseman Moustakas to second baseman Zobrist, C.Davis scored, Pearce to third, Schoop out.
Royals 4, Orioles 3 Bot 6, 1 OutSep 11 9:23 PM - Caleb Joseph reaches on a fielder's choice to third base. Jonathan Schoop out at second. Steve Pearce to third. Chris Davis scores.
Royals 4, Orioles 4 Bot 6, 0 OutsSep 11 9:22 PM - Joseph hit an infield single to shortstop, C.Davis scored, Pearce to third, Schoop to second.
Royals 4, Orioles 3 Bot 6, 0 OutsSep 11 9:17 PM - Joseph grounded into fielder's choice, second baseman Zobrist unassisted, C.Davis scored, Schoop out.
Royals 3, Orioles 2 Bot 4, 2 OutsSep 11 8:30 PM - Caleb Joseph reaches on a fielder's choice to second base. Jonathan Schoop out at second. Chris Davis scores.
Royals 3, Orioles 2 Bot 4, 1 OutSep 11 8:30 PM - Alcides Escobar doubles to right field. Salvador Perez scores.
Royals 3, Orioles 0 Top 2, 2 OutsSep 11 7:44 PM - Rios hit a sacrifice fly to center fielder A.Jones, K.Morales scored, S.Perez to second.
Royals 2, Orioles 0 Top 2, 2 OutsSep 11 7:41 PM - Alex Rios out on a sacrifice fly to center field to Adam Jones. Salvador Perez to second. Kendrys Morales scores.
Royals 2, Orioles 0 Top 2, 1 OutSep 11 7:41 PM - Ben Zobrist grounds out to shortstop, J.J. Hardy to Steve Pearce.
Sep 11 7:09 PM - KANSAS CITY: 0
BALTIMORE: 0
Top 1, 0 Outs
Sep 11 7:08 PM
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