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Kansas City Royals OFFICIAL GAME NOTES Texas Rangers (53-83) @ Kansas City Royals (74-61) Kauffman Stadium - Monday, September 1, 2014 Game #137 - Home Game #69 Fox Sports Kansas City (HD) & KCSP Radio (610 Sports) UPCOMING PITCHING PROBABLES Tuesday, September 2 vs. Texas Rangers: LHP Derek Holland (1st start of 2014) vs. RHP Jeremy Guthrie (10-10, 4.43), 7:10 p.m., FSKC (HD) & 610 Sports Wednesday, September 3 vs. Texas Rangers: RHP Nick Tepesch (4-8, 4.44) vs. LHP Jason Vargas (10-7, 3.27), 7:10 p.m., FSKC (HD) & 610 Sports Thursday, September 4: Travel day to New York Friday, September 5 @ New York Yankees: RHP James Shields (12-7, 3.38) vs. TBA, 6:05 p.m. (CDT), FSKC (HD) & 610 Sports Saturday, September 6 @ New York Yankees: LHP Danny Duffy (8-11, 2.42) vs. TBA, 3:05 p.m. (CDT), FS 1 (HD) & 610 Sports Sunday, September 7 @ New York Yankees: RHP Yordano Ventura (10-9+ tonight) vs. TBA, 12:05 p.m. (CDT), FSKC (HD) & 610 Sports Tonight’s game is being broadcast in Kansas City on KCSP Radio (610 Sports) and the Royals Radio Network with Royals’ Hall of Famer Denny Matthews, Steve Physioc and Steve Stewart, while Don Free controls the dials as the producer/engineer...tonight’s game is being televised in High Definition on Fox Sports Kansas City with Ryan Lefebvre and Rex Hudler mikeside...Joel Goldberg and Royals’ Hall of Famer Jeff Montgomery host Hy-Vee Royals Live. Royals vs. Rangers TO BE CONTINUED...--The Royals and Indians battled for 9 1/2 innings last night, but Mother Nature Tonight opens the final series of the season between these had seen enough and at 10:23 local time the game was halted due to a ferocious storm and then 58 minutes Surprise, AZ, spring training mates...the Royals took 2 of 3 from later it was suspended with the Tribe leading by a 4-2 count...the contest will be resumed on September the Rangers a couple of weeks ago in Arlington...KC leads the 22 in Cleveland prior to the regularly scheduled contest in Progressive Field...the suspension affords the all-time series by a 270-257 count, 248-243 since the franchise moved to Texas from D.C...the Royals hold a 147-120 lead in Royals the opportunity to go to work on September 1 holding first place in the division for the first time games contested in Kansas City, 133-107 in ‘The K.’ since 1982 when KC topped the A.L. West by 1 1/2 games over the California Angels...as for last night, the Date Site Score WP LP Att. offensive slide of the last week continued, as Kansas City plated a first inning run, but that was it until Alex 8/22 @ Tex W, 6-3 Ventura Lewis 26,991 Gordon electrified the third full house of the year with a game-tying home run to lead off the ninth inning... 8/23 @ Tex W, 6-3 Guthrie Tepesch 27,400 8/24 @ Tex L, 1-3 Baker Vargas 30,049 meanwhile, Danny Duffy was solved for a pair of runs, the first coming in the third on a bloop double by 9/1 KC Michael Brantley after a pair of walks to tie the game and then a stray Duffy pickoff attempt sent a runner to 9/2 KC third in the fourth inning and he scored on a sac fly...just prior to the suspension of the game, KC committed 9/3 KC an infield error in the 10th that opened the door for a pair of run and gave Cleveland a lead they’ll hold when play resumes in three weeks...last night marked the first game suspension for Kansas City since a power outage halted play in Milwaukee on June 15, 2001, and the contest was resumed the following day. LET THE MOVES BEGIN--The Royals made a plethora of roster moves today adding two pitchers, a catcher, two infielders and two outfielders...Kansas City selected the contracts of outfielder Carlos Peguero (#34) from Omaha and lefthanded pitcher Brandon Finnegan (#27) from Northwest Arkansas...to make room on the 40-man roster for those additions, KC designated righthanded pitcher Blake Wood and lefthanded pitcher Chris Dwyer for assignment...the Royals also returned first baseman Eric Hosmer from his injury rehab assignment to Omaha and reinstated him from the 15-day disabled list after missing a month due to a fractured third metacarpal in his right hand...Kansas City has also recalled righthanded pitcher Casey Coleman (#25), catcher Francisco Pena (#26), infielder Johnny Giavotella (#9) and outfielder Lane Adams (#45)...Finnegan was Kansas City’s first pick in this past summer’s First Year Player Draft out of TCU. A MARKED IMPROVEMENT--Despite a 2-5 week, Kansas City enters tonight in a position of controlling its own destiny as the final month begins...a year ago, KC was 69-66 as play began on September 1, 10 1/2 games out in the A.L. Central and 6 1/2 games shy in the Wild Card chase...the Royals and Tigers entered play today with KC leading the division by a half-game, with Kansas City showing 27 games on the slate with last night’s suspension and the Tigers 26 contests left, GET IT TO THE SEVENTH--Much of Kansas City’s success can be traced to the seventh, eighth and ninth innings thanks to the trio of Kelvin Herrera, Wade Davis and Greg Holland, respectively...the trifecta has combined to allow just 3 earned runs in 65.0 innings in this 26-9 span for a 0.42 ERA while fanning 70 and holding the opponents to a collective .158 average (35-for-222)...Herrera has a streak of 25.2 consecutive scoreless frames alive, which spans his last 25 outings...the only pitcher in baseball with a longer active streak is Davis, who is in the midst of a 28-game streak with 26.2-straight shutout innings...Holland is the only one of the three to be scored upon, allowing 3 earned runs in 19.2 innings (1.37 ERA) since July 22, but has converted 15 of his last 16 save chances, including his most recent on August 22 in Texas, his 14th straight conversion. TONIGHT’S STARTING PITCHERS: RHP Colby Lewis (9-11, 5.44) vs. RHP Yordano Ventura (10-9, 3.40) 2014 2013 Career 2014 2013 Career Yordano Ventura vs. Rangers 1-0 - 1-0 Major League Record 10-9 (3.40 ERA) 0-1 10-10 Colby Lewis vs. Royals 0-1 - 1-3 Major League Record 9-11 (5.44 ERA) 6-6 53-55 YORDANO VENTURA gets his 25th starting assignment, his 26th appearance overall and second straight outing against Texas...this is his 28th career big league start and 29th outing since debuting on September 17, 2013...he signed as a non-drafted free agent on October 8, 2008 out of Samana in the Dominican Republic. TEXAS TWO-STEP--Yordano faces the Rangers for a second straight start tonight Yordano’s 2014 Appearances WHEN after missing a turn in the rotation due to mid-back tightness...he won his first career DATE OPPONENT SCORE IP H R ER HR BB SO TP-K LEFT matchup 10 days ago at Globe Life Park, a 6-3 decision, allowing a run in the first, then 4/8 Tampa Bay ND, 0-1 6.0 2 0 0 0 0 6 95-62 0-0 4/15 at Houston W, 4-2 7.0 4 2 1 1 3 7 101-66 4-2 holding Texas scoreless through the sixth en route to becoming the first Royals rookie 4/20 Minnesota L, 3-8 4.0 6 4 4 0 4 6 94-56 0-4 4/25 at Baltimore W, 5-0 8.0 7 0 0 0 2 8 113-75 5-0 with double-digit wins since 2007...he allowed the run on 4 hits, with 3 walks and 6 4/30 Toronto ND, 4-2 5.0 2 0 0 0 2 4 92-57 2-0 K’s to add to his recent stretch in which he’s 3-1 with a 2.84 ERA over his last 6 starts, 5/5 at San Diego ND, 5-6 (12) 6.0 5 3 3 1 0 10 101-72 4-3 5/10 at Seattle L, 1-3 6.1 6 3 3 2 4 3 96-54 1-3 keeping opponents to a .203 average. 5/15 Baltimore L, 1-2 6.1 7 2 2 1 1 9 104-70 1-2 QUALITY MATTERS--The August 22 outing at Texas was Ventura’s 17th quality 5/20 Chicago L, 6-7 6.0 7 4 4 1 0 3 100-69 2-4 5/26 Houston L, 2-9 2.2 7 5 5 0 3 3 74-46 0-5 start, which placed him first among Major League rookies, ahead of New York’s 6/5 St. Louis W, 3-2 6.0 7 2 2 0 2 1 91-55 3-2 6/11 Cleveland W, 4-1 7.0 6 1 1 0 0 3 85-61 4-1 Masahiro Tanaka...he’s in select company, entering tonight in a tie with Kevin Appier 6/17 at Detroit W, 11-4 7.0 8 3 3 0 2 4 102-65 11-3 (1990), Rangers broadcaster Steve Busby (1973) and Rich Gale (1978) for third all-time 6/22 Seattle L, 1-2 7.0 6 2 2 1 2 6 101-69 1-2 6/28 Los Angeles (AL) L, 2-6 4.0 7 2 2 0 0 3 56-41 0-2 among Royals rookies, trailing only Bob Johnson (20 in 1970) and Dennis Leonard (18 7/4 at Cleveland W, 7-1 8.1 6 1 1 1 2 4 113-66 7-1 in 1975)...Yordano is the first KC rookie to record 6 straight quality starts since Appier 7/9 at Tampa Bay ND, 5-4 5.0 5 4 4 1 4 5 104-60 2-4 7/13 Detroit* W, 5-2 1.2 1 0 0 0 0 3 26-16 5-2 set a record for Royals freshmen with 8 in a row from July 31 to September 8, 1990.