Kansas City 4, Arizona 3
When: 9:40 PM ET, Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Where: Chase Field, Phoenix, Arizona
Temperature:
Indoors
Umpires:
Home -
Dana DeMuth, 1B -
Tony Randazzo, 2B -
David Rackley, 3B -
Jim Wolf
Attendance:
16157
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Royals 4, Diamondbacks 3: Mike Moustakas homered and had four RBIs as visiting Kansas City defeated Arizona for the second straight night.
Yordano Ventura (9-8) struck out eight and gave up two runs in six innings as the Royals won for the 11th time in 14 games. Kansas City trails first-place Detroit by 3 1/2 games in the American League Central and is just a half-game behind Toronto for the AL’s second wild-card spot.
Wade Davis worked out of a self-induced jam in the eighth and Greg Holland allowed Mark Trumbo’s sacrifice fly in the ninth before recording his AL-leading 32nd save. Diamondbacks starter Josh Collmenter (8-6) suffered the loss despite giving up just three runs and three hits in six innings.
Alex Gordon and Lorenzo Cain drew two-out walks against Collmenter in the fourth inning and Moustakas followed with a run-scoring single to give the Royals a 3-2 lead. Davis fanned Tuffy Gosewisch with two on to end the eighth and Moustakas got his fourth RBI of the night when he reached on a fielder’s choice in the ninth on a play in which he originally was called out at first before a replay challenge overturned the call.
Cain singled with two out in the second and Moustakas followed with his blast to right. The Diamondbacks tied it the third on run-scoring singles by Aaron Hill and David Peralta.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Montero had three hits for the Diamondbacks, who had 12 hits to Kansas City’s five but were just 2-for-14 with runners in scoring position. … Royals 1B Billy Butler went 1-for-4 with a double and is 8-for-13 over the past three games. … Arizona activated INF Cliff Pennington (thumb) from the 15-day disabled list and optioned RHP Bo Schultz to Triple-A Reno.
Top Game Performances
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Kansas City
|
5 |
1 |
9 |
.156 |
7 |
7 |
4 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
| Arizona
|
12 |
0 |
15 |
.316 |
24 |
11 |
3 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
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