The Cleveland Baseball Club pounded out 17 hits en route to a 14-6 win over the visiting Kansas City Royals.
While the Cleveland Baseball Club did not win via the walk-off home run for the third straight game, they did manage to come away with a comfortable eight-run victory over the Royals. The Cleveland batters were all over pretty much everything that the Royals pitchers had to offer. Mike Minor was Kansas City’s first pitcher and he surrendered six run on nine hits in just four innings. It was the 4th inning which gave Minor the most trouble as Bobby Bradley drove in the first for Cleveland on a RBI double. Cesar Hernandez would come up later in the inning and add three more to the scoreboard with a three-run shot.
In the 6th it was Roberto Perez taking Erving Santana deep for his fifth of the year.
Santana would give up another run as Amed Rosario drove in Bradley Zimmer on a RBI double.
The homer-fest did not end in the 6th as Oscar Mercado crushed a three-run homer for his first of the season.
Jose Ramirez would cap off the 14-run effort in the 8th with a solo shot. It was Ramirez’ 19th home run of the year.
Cleveland pitching did just enough
Cal Quantrill got the start for Cleveland Saturday and pitched admirably. Quantrill did have two mistake pitches which resulted in two home runs, one to Salvador Perez in the 4th and another to Andrew Benintendi in the 6th. Quantrill would finish the game allowing just the three runs on rive hits while striking out and walking one.
Nick Sandlin would follow Quantrill with three runs coming across to score, although none of them were earned.
With Sunday’s game postponed due to rain, Cleveland enters the All-Star break with a 45-42 record. Cleveland is 7.5 games back of the Chicago White Sox entering Sunday and four games back of Oakland for the second Wild Card spot. A trip to Oakland after the break should provide some intrigue in regards to the playoff hunt.
