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Orlando flirts with cycle as part of 4-hit game
- Updated: August 14, 2016
MINNEAPOLIS — The Royals’ dugout, starting with manager Ned Yost, was pulling for Paulo Orlando to get one more at-bat in the ninth inning on Sunday.
Orlando, who was due up fourth in the ninth, had singled, tripled and homered in the eventual 11-4 win over the Twins. He needed one more chance for a double and the cycle.
Orlando got that chance after Alcides Escobar singled. Orlando came up against hard-throwing reliever Ryan Pressly. Orlando was looking for a breaking ball, hoping to shoot it into the right-field corner.
“Yeah, that guy throws hard,” Orlando said. “I hoped he would throw a breaking ball. He threw it first pitch and I tried to go the other way, but I was late. Then, I made an adjustment and he threw it right down the middle, and I hit it right back up the middle [for a single].”
Yost joked, “Yeah, we wanted him to get up. And he gets a lousy single.”
Orlando has had plenty of hits all season. His four-hit …
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