Royals Bats come alive vs the Mariners!!
If you came to the ballpark today expecting a pitching duel you were sadly dissapointed. But in the end you were shown a hitting display and the power of the Kansas City bats.
The Royals crushed the Seattle Mariners today 17-6 in Kauffman Stadium on 22 hits.
The star of the show today was
CF Santiago Rao who went deep two times for the first time in his career and had five RBI's in the game. Rao who had been struggling most of the year finally was able to find his rhythm today. "It feels good to stroke a few out of the park today. All year I had been hitting the ball hard but right at the defense. Today was special and I hope to have many more days like this."
The Royals starting pitcher
Vince Perkins(0-3, 6.83) once again struggled this year. He went 4 1/3 innings and gave up five hits that resulted in six runs, four being earned. He also walked three and struck out seven.
For the year he has pitched 27 2/3 innings with 15 walks and 24 strikeouts. Not the numbers you want when you have young pitchers behind you but hopefully Perkins can regain the form that won him 14 games last year.
But on a positive note the Royals swept the Mariners in this series and currently sit at 18-16 and are in third place in the Central Division. The Tigers remain the hottest team in baseball by virtue of their 13 game win streak and sit at the top of the division at 22-11, 4.5 game ahead of the Royals.
Notes:
RF William Quattlebaum had the most hits of any Royals today by going 4-6 with 4 RBI's and 3 Runs...
1B Melvin Colmenares seems to be back to mid season form going 1-3 with 3 BB and 2 Runs...
MR Brian Bannister picked up his second win of the season by going 2 2/3 innings and not allowing a hit for the Royals, lowering his ERA to 3.93...
Matt Morris(0-4) took the loss for the Mariners by allowing 12 hits and 7 ER in 5 1/3 innings.
