(AP)
Mike Moustakas stated he never had hit a “walkoff something” before Thursday afternoon. With the Kansas City Royals by no means having made the playoffs since Moustakas was born, he would possibly as nicely begin now.
Moustakas hit a long dwelling run within the thirteenth inning to interrupt a tie with the Seattle Mariners and provides the Royals a desperately wanted 7-6 victory at Kauffman Stadium. Moustakas’ eleventh homer of the season came on an zero-2 pitch by Probability Ruffin, a holdover from the Doug Fister commerce who was making his first major league appearance since 2011. Hey, the Royals don’t care:
With 22 games remaining on the schedule, Kansas Metropolis is five games behind the Tampa Bay Rays for the AL’s last playoff spot. Coolstandings.com gives Okay.C., which hasn’t made the playoffs since profitable the World Sequence in 1985, a 5.5 percent chance of reaching the postseason. Moustakas, whose twenty fifth birthday is next week, was still three years from being born when George Brett, Bret Saberhagen and Buddy Biancalana beat the Cardinals and won the Commissioner’s Trophy in the I-70 Sequence.
After a miserable first half, Moustakas has hit a lot closer to expectations within the second half —288/.336./.448, with 4 homers in 137 plate appearances. Two or three extra walkoff hits for Moose over the ultimate three weeks would get the Royals rather a lot nearer to realizing their postseason expectations.
Most of Kansas City’s playoff potentialities rest with the wild card. The Detroit Tigers come to Kauffman for three games starting Friday, however the Royals are eight video games behind them (not to mention in third place). Still, they can not be in a better way of thinking with the division leaders coming to city.
It can be unhealthy information for the Royals if catcher Salvador Perez missed the Tigers series, or longer, because of concussion symptoms. Perez left the Mariners recreation, experiencing “mild dizziness,” after taking a foul tip off his facemask. Perez suffered a concussion earlier this season after an analogous incident. However manager Ned Yost seems optimistic this time:
Mooooooose! Mike Moustakas home run gives Royals much-needed victory in 13th
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