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Hosmer the spark as KC caps sweep at Detroit
- Updated: August 18, 2016
DETROIT — Eric Hosmer, not satisfied with breaking up Anibal Sanchez’s bids for a perfect game and later a no-hitter, dealt Detroit a decisive blow with a tiebreaking two-run home run in the ninth, sending Kansas City to a 4-1 win on Wednesday night at Comerica Park. The win handed the Royals their first sweep of the Tigers in Detroit since 2008.
Five days after Sanchez gave up four home runs at Texas, he retired Kansas City’s first 12 batters, then walked Hosmer to lead off the fifth. Sanchez had the home crowd on its feet later, preserving his no-hit bid until Hosmer doubled off the left-field fence with two outs in the seventh.
Sanchez stranded Hosmer there, completing seven scoreless innings with just the one hit, two walks and eight strikeouts, but Yordano Ventura’s stingy pitching and a key escape by reliever Matt Strahm sent the Tigers into the eighth with a thin 1-0 lead. One pitch into the eighth, that advantage was gone, erased on Alex Gordon’s homer off reliever Justin Wilson’s first pitch in a week.
Hosmer completed the comeback in the ninth by driving a Shane Greene slider into …
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