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Royals’ bullpen yields in marathon with Yanks
- Updated: September 1, 2016
KANSAS CITY — With an already banged up and depleted bullpen, the Royals were ill equipped to get into another marathon match against the Yankees. But that was exactly the case on Wednesday night.
Starter Ian Kennedy went 6 1/3 innings, but gave up four earned runs. With the offense unable to get a hit from the seventh inning on, the Royals had to keep going to their bullpen until they were finally out of options in a 5-4 loss in 13 innings to close out what had been a red-hot August.
“Man, those guys were on fumes. Going into the day, there was no way I wanted to use [Matt] Strahm, [Joakim] Soria, [Peter] Moylan or [Brian] Flynn,” manager Ned Yost said. “But these guys, they just go out … they just compete their tails off. They’re just great competitors.”
Left-hander Scott Alexander, who had been called up from Triple-A before the game along with right-hander Brooks Pounders, was the first out of the bullpen. With the Royals holding a 4-3 lead, Alexander inherited a runner on first, but was unable to keep him from scoring.
However, that was the only damage done for a while. After getting through the inning, …
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