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Kansas City Royals OFFICIAL GAME NOTES Kansas City Royals (78-61) @ New York Yankees (72-67) Yankee Stadium - Saturday, September 6, 2014 Game #141 - Road Game #70 FS 1 & KCSP Radio (610 Sports) UPCOMING PITCHING PROBABLES Sunday, September 7 @ New York Yankees: RHP Yordano Ventura (11-9, 3.38) vs. RHP Shane Greene (4-2, 3.88), 12:05 p.m. (CDT), FSKC & TBS & 610 Sports Monday, September 8 @ Detroit Tigers: RHP Jeremy Guthrie (10-10, 4.31) vs. RHP Justin Verlander (12-12, 4.80), 3:08 p.m. (CDT), FSKC & 610 Sports Tuesday, September 9 @ Detroit Tigers: LHP Jason Vargas (11-7, 3.14) vs. RHP Max Scherzer (15-5, 3.25), 6:08 p.m. (CDT), FSKC & 610 Sports Wednesday, September 10 @ Detroit Tigers: RHP James Shields (13-7, 3.23) vs. RHP Rick Porcello (15-10, 3.30), 6:08 p.m. (CDT), FSKC, ESPN & 610 Sports Today’s game is being broadcast in Kansas City on KCSP Radio (610 Sports) and the Royals Radio Network with 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 FS 1 with Daron Sutton and Tom Verducci...the remaining four games on this trip will be televised on Fox Sports Kansas City. Royals vs. Yankees AND THAT’S HOW YOU GET THE NAME ‘BIG GAME’--Runs were at a premium in the road trip The Royals took a 3-2 lead in the season work with last opener last night, but James Shields and Wade Davis managed to make one hold up as the duo combined night’s cliffhanger...Kansas City still trails the all-time series by to open this journey with a 1-0 victory...Shields, who upped his record to 13-7 on the year, fired the first a 186-270 margin, including an 80-151 deficit in the Big Apple, 8.1 frames allowing only three hits and hitting a batter, and then Davis recorded the first save of his career but just 8-10 in this ballpark. by fanning the only two hitters he faced...the win was Kansas City’s fourth in a row as the Royals upped Date Site Score WP LP Att. 6/6 KC L, 2-4 Whitley Guthrie 23,418 their lead in the A.L. Central to two games over Detroit and remained six up on Cleveland...the only run of 6/7 KC W, 8-4 Crow Phelps 26,991 the game came across in the third inning when Nori Aoki singled in Alcides Escobar, who had hustled into 6/8 KC W, 2-1 Shields Kuroda 24,614 second base after a ball he hit toward third was scored an error...the Royals made the most of their chance last 8/25 KC L, 1-8 Pineda Shields 31,578 9/5 @ NY W, 1-0 Shields Pineda 36,284 night, going 1-for-1 with runners in scoring position, while Shields and Davis held the Yankees to 0-for-3. 9/6 @ NY MOUND MILESTONES--The twosome who came to Kansas City prior to the 2013 season started and 9/7 @ NY then sealed last night’s 1-0 win over the Yankees, with James Shields and Wade Davis combining for the shutout...for Shields, his 8.1 innings of shutout ball upped the durable hurler’s inning total to 200.1 on the year, his eighth consecutive season of at least 200.0 frames... last night’s win was his 19th road victory since joining the Royals, tying him with Madison Bumgarner and Adam Wainwright for the big league lead in that span...the save for Davis was the first of his career in 122 relief appearances and the 140th different hurler to record a save in franchise history. ROAD WARRIORS--Kansas City upped its road ledger to 40-29 with last night’s victory, the second most road wins and winning percentage in the American League... the Royals started the year 0-5 away from ‘The K’, but has gone 40-24 since, including a 14-4 mark since July 22...KC is unbeaten in its last six road series, winning stops in Chicago, Oakland, Arizona, Minnesota and Texas and splitting a 2-game set in Denver vs. the Rockies...last year’s club won 42 road games. STARTERS ON A ROLL--The starting rotation has stepped it up as the schedule starts to wane...in the last three games, the trio of Jeremy Guthrie, Jason Vargas and James Shields have combined to allow one earned run in 22.0 innings for a 0.41 ERA, with the lone tally occurring in the fifth inning Wednesday’s performance by Guthrie...since that run, KC starters have a streak of 17.0 consecutive scoreless innings...in the last six games, the starting rotation has allowed five earned runs in 42.0 innings for a 1.07 ERA, limiting the opposition to a collective .206 average (32-for-155). THE RACE IS ON--At 78-61 Kansas City is now 17 games over the .500 mark for the first time since John Wathan’s 1989 club finished the year at 92-70...since July 22, the Royals have posted a Major League best 30-11 record and reversed an 8-game deficit in the Central into their current 2-game lead...the home sweep of Texas gave Kansas City its 11th series win out of the last 13 played, with the club taking sets in Chicago, vs. Oakland (home and road), Minnesota (two at home and one on the road), at Arizona, at Texas, vs. San Francisco and winning a series at home vs. Cleveland before dropping the lone set in this span to the Tribe last weekend...the only series split was a 2-game stop in Colorado. REMAINING WORK--Kansas City enters tonight with 23 games remaining on the 2014 docket, which includes the completion of the suspended game on September 22 with KC trailing 4-2 in the 10th...the Tigers are down to 21 games left while Cleveland, who enters today six back have 23 to go...KC’s remaining opponents include the Indians (3+ suspended game), the two remaining games here vs. the Yankees, the White Sox (7), Boston (4) and Detroit (6)...meanwhile, aside from the six with the Royals, Detroit has Cleveland (3), San Francisco (2), Minnesota (7) and the White Sox (3). TONIGHT’S STARTING PITCHERS: LHP Danny Duffy (8-11, 2.42) vs. RHP Brandon McCarthy (5-4, 2.80) 2014 2013 Career 2014 2013 Career Danny Duffy vs. Yankees 0-0 - 1-1 Major League Record 8-11 (2.42 ERA) 2-0 16-21 Brandon McCarthy vs. Royals - - 2-2 Major League Record 8-14 (4.19 ERA) 5-11 50-64 DANNY DUFFY makes his 23rd start and 29th overall appearance of the year, his 60th career outing (54th start)...it’s his second start of the year against the Yankees and fourth of his career, facing them for the first time here in the Bronx...Danny was selected by Kansas City in the third round of the 2007 June Free Agent Draft. ANOTHER NO-DECISION--Danny took his second-straight no-decision last Sunday Danny’s 2014 Major League starts in the Royals’ first appearance on “Sunday Night Baseball” since 2010, a game that has been DATE OPPONENT SCORE IP H R ER HR BB SO TP-K LEFT suspended with Cleveland up 4-2 in the 10th inning...Duffy pitched the 6.2 innings, allowing 5/3 Detroit L, 2-9 4.0 2 1 1 0 4 2 75-41 0-1 2 runs (1 earned) on 5 hits with 3 walks and 6 strikeouts...he allowed single runs in the third 5/8 at Seattle L, 0-1 6.0 2 1 1 0 3 4 88-49 0-1 5/17 Baltimore W, 1-0 7.0 2 0 0 0 0 2 97-65 1-0 and fourth frames, as Michael Brantley tied the game at 1-1 with a 2-out RBI double, while 5/23 at Los Angeles L, 1-6 6.0 9 5 5 2 2 2 87-59 1-5 5/28 Houston L, 3-9 4.0 7 6 5 2 5 3 86-47 1-6 Mike Aviles gave the Tribe the lead with a sacrifice fly, following an errant Duffy pickoff 6/2 at St. Louis W, 6-0 6.0 1 0 0 0 1 5 85-55 3-0 attempt at first base...Alex Gordon tied the game with a solo shot to lead off the ninth inning 6/7 New York ND, 8-4 5.2 5 3 3 0 3 4 100-60 3-3 6/14 at Chicago W, 9-1 7.0 5 0 0 0 1 9 98-65 6-0 and send the game to overtime...Cleveland scored a pair of unearned runs in the top of the 6/19 at Detroit L, 1-2 7.0 3 2 2 1 1 5 101-69 1-2 10th, before rain showers halted the action and ultimately forced the game to be resumed in 6/24 Los Angeles (NL) L, 0-2 6.0 4 1 1 0 4 5 105-67 0-1 6/30 at Minnesota W, 6-1 5.2 4 1 1 0 2 3 96-64 4-1 Cleveland on September 22...Danny is winless in his last 3 outings, despite posting a 1.33 7/6 at Cleveland L, 1-4 6.0 10 4 4 2 0 6 100-72 1-4 ERA (3 ER in 20.1 IP) and quality starts in each of those games.