Final
Royals edge Blue Jays 11-10 after blowing seven-run lead
Jul 13, 2015 - 1:20 PM KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Paulo Orlando came through again for the Kansas City Royals.Orlando, who had a walk-off grand slam Tuesday against Tampa Bay, hit a tie-breaking eighth inning home run as the Royals beat the Toronto Blue Jays 11-10 Sunday after blowing a seven-run advantage.
Orlando led off the eighth with a home run off Bo Schultz (0-1).
''It was a fastball in,'' Orlando said. ''I fouled off the first pitch, which was a fastball, too. He threw me two cutters and I waited for the fastball and I put a good swing there.''
With temperatures in the 90s, Orlando did not try to escape from catcher Salvador Perez's Gatorade shower in a postgame television interview on the field.
''I needed it because it was too hot,'' Orlando said. ''It was a special moment. Salvy always makes fun of everybody. I waited for that.''
The Royals enter the All-Star break with an American League-leading 52 victories.
''I saw this coming three years ago,'' Royals manager Ned Yost said.
Kansas City led 7-0 after five innings, but the Blue Jays sent 12 men to the plate in an eight-run sixth. Danny Valencia and Jose Bautista contributed two-run doubles in the inning.
Seven of the runs were unearned after Mike Moustakas and Omar Infante committed errors.
''It was an odd game, but those are going to happen every now and then when you play a lot of games,'' said Bautista, who was ejected in the middle of an eighth inning at-bat by plate umpire Jerry Meals for arguing balls and strikes. ''It was quirky. A lot of errors, the sun, the heat. It was a weird game.''
The Royals regained the lead with three in the bottom of the inning with Lorenzo Cain, who had three hits, singling in one run. Alcides Escobar had a RBI on a ground out, while the other run scored on Jose Reyes' second error of the game.
The Jays got a run back in the seventh on a Russell Martin RBI-doubles. Reyes, who had his second straight three-hit game, singled home Kevin Pillar, who had tripled, in the eighth to tie it 10-10. It was only the second run Royals reliever Wade Davis (5-1) had allowed this season.
Greg Holland worked the ninth, logging his 19th save in 21 opportunities.
Kendrys Morales homered in a six-run first. Morales crushed a Felix Doubront fastball over the center field fence with Eric Hosmer and Mike Moustakas aboard. That gives him 61 RBIs, second in the American League.
Doubront made it through five innings after the rocky start, although he gave up 10 hits and seven runs, two unearned.
BREAK FOR BAUTISTA
Bautista opted out of the All-Star game to rest and rehab his sore right shoulder. ''After being in Chicago and getting sore again, and listening to doctors' recommendations, there's some therapy and some rehab that needs to be done,'' Bautista said. ''Normally you would need a few days off during the regular season. I'm taking advantage of this due to the break. It's the smart thing for me to do for my health and to the end of the season, so that's what I'm doing. With the treatments hopefully it'll be much better. I haven't heard anything from the doctors that it'll be any lingering effects and I'll be able to come back after a few days.'' The shoulder has bothered Bautista since a mid-April throw against Baltimore. He missed five games after that and was the DH for the next 29.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Blue Jays: 3B Josh Donaldson was not in the lineup because of flu-like symptoms, which caused him come out in the sixth inning Saturday. . RHP Aaron Sanchez (right lat strain) threw 2 2/3 innings in a rehab appearance Saturday for Single-A Dunedin, Florida, giving up one run on three hits and two walks, while striking out five.
Royals: LHP Jason Vargas (left flexor strain) will make his first rehab start Monday for Double-A Northwest Arkansas.
UP NEXT
Blue Jays: The Blue Jays will host the Rays for the first three games after the break. The Jays have dropped seven of 10 the Rays this season.
Royals: RHPs Chris Young and Edinson Volquez will start a split-doubleheader Friday at the White Sox.
- TORONTO: 10
KANSAS CITY: 11
Final
Jul 12 5:35 PM - Jose Reyes singles to shallow center field. Kevin Pillar scores.
Blue Jays 10, Royals 10 Top 8, 1 OutJul 12 5:09 PM - Russell Martin doubles to deep right center field. Chris Colabello scores.
Blue Jays 9, Royals 10 Top 7, 1 OutJul 12 4:49 PM - L.Cain singled to right, A.Escobar scored, Moustakas to second.
Blue Jays 8, Royals 10 Bot 6, 1 OutJul 12 4:38 PM - Lorenzo Cain singles to right field. Mike Moustakas to second. Alcides Escobar scores.
Blue Jays 8, Royals 10 Bot 6, 1 OutJul 12 4:38 PM - A.Escobar safe at second on fielding error by shortstop Reyes, Infante scored, Rios scored.
Blue Jays 8, Royals 9 Bot 6, 1 OutJul 12 4:33 PM - Alcides Escobar reaches on error to left field, advances to 2nd. Alex Rios scores. Omar Infante scores. Fielding error by Jose Reyes.
Blue Jays 8, Royals 9 Bot 6, 1 OutJul 12 4:33 PM - Devon Travis singles to right field, advances to 2nd. Ezequiel Carrera scores.
Blue Jays 8, Royals 7 Top 6, 2 OutsJul 12 4:17 PM - Ezequiel Carrera singles to right field, advances to 2nd. Kevin Pillar scores.
Blue Jays 7, Royals 7 Top 6, 1 OutJul 12 4:13 PM - Kevin Pillar doubles to left field. Danny Valencia scores.
Blue Jays 6, Royals 7 Top 6, 1 OutJul 12 4:12 PM - Valencia doubled to center, Colabello scored, Ru.Martin scored.
Blue Jays 5, Royals 7 Top 6, 1 OutJul 12 4:10 PM - Danny Valencia doubles to deep right center field. Russell Martin scores. Chris Colabello scores.
Blue Jays 5, Royals 7 Top 6, 1 OutJul 12 4:10 PM - Ru.Martin safe on fielder's choice and fielding error by second baseman Infante, Bautista scored, Colabello to second, Ru.Martin to first.
Blue Jays 3, Royals 7 Top 6, 1 OutJul 12 4:09 PM - Russell Martin reaches on a fielder's choice to shortstop. Chris Colabello to second. Jose Bautista scores. Fielding error by Omar Infante.
Blue Jays 3, Royals 7 Top 6, 1 OutJul 12 4:08 PM - Encarnacion grounded out, third baseman Moustakas to first baseman Hosmer, Travis scored.
Blue Jays 2, Royals 7 Top 6, 1 OutJul 12 4:01 PM - Edwin Encarnacion grounds out to third base, Mike Moustakas to Eric Hosmer. Devon Travis scores.
Blue Jays 2, Royals 7 Top 6, 0 OutsJul 12 4:01 PM - Bautista doubled to right, Reyes scored, Travis to third.
Blue Jays 1, Royals 7 Top 6, 0 OutsJul 12 4:00 PM - Jose Bautista doubles. Devon Travis to third. Jose Reyes scores.
Blue Jays 1, Royals 7 Top 6, 0 OutsJul 12 3:59 PM - Eric Hosmer singles to right center field, tagged out at second, Kevin Pillar to Jose Reyes. Lorenzo Cain scores.
Blue Jays 0, Royals 7 Bot 5, 0 OutsJul 12 3:48 PM - Paulo Orlando singles to shortstop. Omar Infante scores.
Blue Jays 0, Royals 6 Bot 1, 2 OutsJul 12 2:43 PM - Omar Infante doubles to deep left center field. Salvador Perez scores.
Blue Jays 0, Royals 5 Bot 1, 1 OutJul 12 2:40 PM - K.Morales homered to center on a 3-1 count, L.Cain scored, Hosmer scored.
Blue Jays 0, Royals 4 Bot 1, 1 OutJul 12 2:37 PM - Kendrys Morales homers to center field. Eric Hosmer scores. Lorenzo Cain scores.
Blue Jays 0, Royals 4 Bot 1, 1 OutJul 12 2:37 PM - Hosmer singled to left, A.Escobar scored, L.Cain to third.
Blue Jays 0, Royals 1 Bot 1, 1 OutJul 12 2:35 PM - Eric Hosmer singles to left field, advances to 2nd. Lorenzo Cain to third. Alcides Escobar scores. Fielding error by Christopher Colabello.
Blue Jays 0, Royals 1 Bot 1, 1 OutJul 12 2:35 PM - Jose Reyes singles to left field.
Jul 12 2:14 PM - TORONTO: 0
KANSAS CITY: 0
Top 1, 0 Outs
Jul 12 2:13 PM
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