Royals Comeback Pushes Winning Streak to Five Billy Butler homered for the second straight game and the Kansas City Royals overcame a five-run deficit to beat Cleveland 7-5 Saturday night for their fifth straight win. A day after his pinch-hit, two-run homer in the eighth inning beat Cleveland, Butler connected for a tiebreaking shot in the fifth. It was 5-all when he tagged Nick Hagadone for a drive over the Royals’ bullpen in left field. Carlos Santana hit his third homer in two games for Cleveland, which has lost six of seven. Jeremy Guthrie (6-9) won despite giving up five runs on 10 hits and two walks in 5 2/3 innings. Greg Holland got his 27th save in 29 chances. Zach McAllister (3-6) couldn’t hold a 5-0 lead. He gave up a single to Salvador Perez to start the fifth and was replaced by Hagadone. The Royals are now 54-50 on the season and are five games back of the Detroit Tigers in the American League Central Division. The Tigers lost for the second straight game. The Royals are now just one game back in the second wild card race as well. Bruce Chen pitches for the Royals on Sunday as they go for the sweep of the [...] newsinkansas/royals-comeback-pushes-winning-streak-to-five-30/
Posted on: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 12:06:16 +0000
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