World Series Confidential: Royals bullpen keeps Giants off board in Game 2 Elsa/Getty Images Kelvin Herrera is part of an impressive Kansas City bullpen. KANSAS CITY — The high-octane HDH Royals bullpen of Kelvin Herrera, Wade Davis and Greg Holland, after an extra day’s rest in Game 1, pitched 3.2 innings of more scoreless relief in Kansas City’s 7-2 win over the Giants in Game 2 Wednesday night. They are a prime example of how things in baseball don’t necessarily happen by plan but through circumstance. Command issues prevented Holland from assuming a full-time closer role in the minors. Davis, acquired from Tampa Bay with James Shields in 2012, only found his niche as the most dominant eighth-inning set-up man in baseball after failing as a fifth starter. And Herrera, the hardest thrower of them all, still cannot believe his 100 mph velocity when he thinks about how his career was nearly ended by a stress fracture in his elbow that sidelined him for two seasons in the minor leagues. Royals manager Ned Yost was able to summon his nasty trio an inning earlier Wednesday night when the score was 2-2 with one out and Giants on first and second in the sixth. Herrera retired Brandon Belt and Michael Morse — setting [...] newsnyork/world-series-confidential-royals-bullpen-keeps-giants-off-board-in-game-2/
Posted on: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 13:45:30 +0000
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