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- Updated: June 1, 2016
KANSAS CITY– The current Royals lineup is far from a mirror image of the one from Opening Day. With a host of injuries to several of the team’s key contributors, including Mike Moustakas, Salvador Perez and Alex Gordon, the team has not only lost three Gold Glovers, but also some of its biggest bats in the lineup.
The injuries put that much more pressure on the 3-4-5 hitters to produce runs. But in the Royals’ 10-5 win over the Rays on Tuesday night, that certainly was no issue.
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“A big thing, especially for [Lorenzo Cain] and I, was when everybody went down,” Royals first baseman Eric Hosmer said. “We realized that we had to step up; we had to do our part. We were a big piece of the offense.”
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