![]() ![]() Brett now hit a fastball off the end of his bat, pulling a high fly down the right-field line. Smith then stole second, and Romanick followed with a costly mistake, hitting Willie Wilson on a two-strike pitch. Romanick jammed Royal leadoff hitter Lonnie Smith, who looped a single to left center, where Brian Downing approached the seemingly catchable fly with inexplicable caution. “There wasn’t a ball hit off the fat of the bat until (Buddy) Biancalana got his single to center (with one out in the second).” “No one in the world will realize what a fine game Ron pitched,” he said. I probably pitched my best game of the year after that first inning, but Black did it for nine innings and I did it for seven. You’ve got to grit your teeth and keep going. “I didn’t make one bad pitch,” he said, “and I was down, 3-0. “They’ve shut us out three times and held us to one run five times. “I’m bewildered by how they’ve contained us,” Mauch said. I’m going to send it to Louisville.”Īll of the Angels’ bats have appeared to be broken against the Royals, who now lead the 1985 series, 8-4. “But I hit the last one on the fat part of the bat,” he said. DeCinces credited Black’s slider for breaking the first. ![]() The second when he grounded to third as the final out of the game. The first broke when he grounded to third in the fifth. He busted a couple of bats with it tonight.”īoth belonged to DeCinces. “When he’s on,” Mauch said of Black, “he can run that little slider in on your hands. He picked a bad time to pitch one of his better games.”Ī control specialist who had been plagued by an inability to get his breaking pitches over, Black struck out five, walked two and allowed only one runner to reach second.īobby Grich looped a single to right in the second, Doug DeCinces grounded a single to center in the seventh, and Gary Pettis legged out a single to deep short in the eighth. “The way he was pitching,” Mauch said, “we might have played a couple more hours without scoring. Black, 17-12 last year but 10-15 this year and a loser of 12 of his previous 16 decisions, needed only 2 hours 8 minutes to pitch his first shutout since May 21. “Maybe it’s a case of having some responsible parents who don’t want their kids to be out late on school nights.” “The only electricity is in the lights,” Dan Quisenberry, the Royals’ relief ace, acknowledged. Wednesday night’s attendance here was 28,401, up from 26,273 Tuesday night. The Angels and Royals averaged 33,400 for three early September games in Anaheim. It has now become a race with no apparent end. Nice job by MetsFan4Decades her effort in the GameThread embiggens us all.The Angels led this race by 7 1/2 games on July 21. The Mets loaded the bases against closer Ian Kennedy in the ninth, but he was able to escape the inning unscathed to secure the victory for the Royals.įull recap to follow. It was very nearly even worse, but what would have been a grand slam by Ryan O’Hearn was found to be a foul ball upon replay review. However, the Mets were unable to mount any sort of rally against the Royals bullpen and Brad Brach and Edwin Diaz melted down in the eighth inning, resulting in two more Royals runs. Syndergaard got into trouble again in the sixth, but struck out two batters to escape the jam and keep the Mets within a run. The Royals took the lead in the fifth on three straight one-out hits. However, he showed signs of fatigue in the fifth and sixth. Meanwhile, Noah Syndergaard looked sharp early, needing just 25 pitches to get through the first three innings. However, another double play-this time off the bat of Todd Frazier-killed the Mets’ chances for a big inning. The Mets struck first in the third thanks to an error and two singles. Davis misread a fly ball off the bat of Ruben Tejada and was doubled off second base. The second inning ended with the Mets running themselves into a double play on the base paths when J.D. The Mets had a runner in scoring position with less than two outs in both the first and second innings, but did not score in either frame. The Mets failed to take advantage of scoring opportunities early and could not give Noah Syndergaard the run support he needed in tonight’s loss to the Royals. ![]()
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