SB Nation St. Louis - Royals Put Full Denkinger On Cardinals In Rubber Gamehttps://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/49009/stl-fave.png2010-06-28T03:59:27-05:00http://stlouis.sbnation.com/rss/stream/13048902010-06-28T03:59:27-05:002010-06-28T03:59:27-05:00Royals Put Full Denkinger On Cardinals In Rubber Game
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Kansas City, MO (Sports Network) - <span>Jason Kendall</span> drove in four runs, and <span>Wilson Betemit</span> hit a three-run homer, as Kansas City took the finale of a three-game series with the <a style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #c61c17; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" href="http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/teams/STL" class="sbn-auto-link">Cardinals</a>, 10-3, at Kauffman Stadium.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Kendall went 3-for-5 and scored twice, <span>David DeJesus</span> collected three hits and knocked in two and <span>Jose Guillen</span> extended his hitting streak to 21 games with a 2-for-3 effort while driving in a run.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Betemit ended with two of the <a style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #c61c17; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" href="http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/teams/KAN" class="sbn-auto-link">Royals</a>' 15 hits and scored two runs. <span>Bruce Chen</span> (4-2) went five innings in the start and gave up two runs on only two hits with four walks.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">St. Louis' <span>Jaime Garcia</span> (7-4) had his worst outing of the season, lasting just two-plus innings and giving up five runs on four hits and two walks.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span>Albert Pujols</span> and <span>Colby Rasmus</span> each slugged home run No. 16 of the season for St. Louis, which dropped two of the three games in the series and has lost three of four overall.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">St. Louis squandered a chance to blow the game open in the first inning after loading the bases with nobody out.<span>Matt Holliday</span> lifted a sacrifice fly and <span>David Freese</span> struck out before a walk to Rasmus re-loaded the bases.<span>Randy Winn</span> was then rung up on strikes.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">"It's hot and I'm throwing like 64 pitches in the first two innings. I say, 'You know what? I'll give them everything I have from now on.' It worked out real well," said Chen.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">The Royals went ahead in the second on Betemit's three-run blast out to right- center and both DeJesus and Guillen had run-scoring singles in the third to up the margin to 5-1 as Garcia was forced from the game.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Kendall came through with a two-out double to chase home two more runs in the fourth and Pujols answered with a solo home run in the fifth for a 7-2 game.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">"We had a our chance today to score some runs, but you've got to give credit to Bruce Chen. He made some pitches to get out of that inning," said Pujols of the Cards' early chances. "Hot weather like that, we made him (Chen) throw 30- something pitches. After that, he pretty much settled down and cruised with it."</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">KC tacked on a trio of insurance runs in the eighth as Kendall doubled in <span>Willie Bloomquist</span> and <span>Scott Podsednik</span> off <span>Adam Ottavino</span> and <span>Dennys Reyes</span> came on to yield an RBI single to DeJesus.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Rasmus took <span>Blake Wood</span> deep to open the ninth and round out the scoring.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Garcia came in holding the majors' second-best ERA at 1.79...Chen had lost his last two starts...The Royals had lost six of eight overall coming in...The Cardinals have won eight of the past 11 meetings between the clubs...St. Louis will host Arizona in a three-game series starting Monday while Kansas City hosts the <a style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #c61c17; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" href="http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/teams/CWS" class="sbn-auto-link">White Sox</a> for three games...Pujols has 51 RBI this year...Podsednik had two hits, scored three runs and stole his 21st and 22nd bases of the season. Bloomquist also had two hits...The Royals were 8-for-15 with runners in scoring position. Betemit doubled his RBI total on the year to six...Ottavino pitched 4 1/3 innings in relief, allowing five runs on nine hits...St. Louis ended with a 9-6 interleague record...Kansas City was 8-10 against the National League.</p>
https://stlouis.sbnation.com/2010/6/28/2317104/royals-put-full-denkinger-on-cardinals-in-rubber-gameDan Moore