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- Updated: August 31, 2016
KANSAS CITY — After battling back from an early four-run deficit against the Yankees, the Royals seemed poised to tie the game, or win it, in the 10th inning with two runners in scoring position and none out.
But the team known for its propensity for late-inning magic was unable to pull it off as two strikeouts and a flyout ended the drama in a 5-4 loss to the Yankees on Tuesday night.
“We get that feeling, we’re always used to winning toward the end there,” Lorenzo Cain said. “We fell a little short tonight. We had a lot of opportunities to score the winning run … just didn’t get the job done.”
Several of those opportunities came in the 10th inning. Leading off the inning, Raul Mondesi was hit by a pitch from Yanks reliever Ben Heller that Mondesi nearly swung at for strike three. He stole second and advanced to third on a single by Jarrod Dyson.
With his blazing speed, Mondesi might have been able to round third on the single, had he gone …
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