After a one-hour rain delay, the Royals were quickly beaten by the Colorado Rockies on Friday night, 3-1.
Michael Wacha surrendered a two-out RBI single in the bottom of the first, which put the Royals down 1-0.
The Royals were completely stumped against Tomoyuki Sugano, the Japanese righty was efficient and effective, going 6.2 innings, allowing 5 hits, 1 run, striking out 2. Sugano induced tons of weak contact, outside a very few select at bats. He finished his night at just 83 pitches.
The Rockies
scored the two game deciding runs in the bottom of the 4th inning, when with two outs and a runner on second, a routine grounder to second caused the Royals trouble. The ball was hit right to Massey for the third out, but Jac Caglianone, who was playing first, made a move to field the ball, he was out of position to cover the base, so Wacha sprinted over to get there, unfortunately, Massey’s throw didn’t connect, it was an error, and 2-0 Rockies. The next batter, Brenton Doyle doubled in another run making it 3-0.
The Royals got their only run of the night on Carter Jensen’s 15th home run of the season. It was a towering shot into the right field seats. With two outs in the 6th inning, Lane Thomas followed up with a single, but Cags lined out to center, ending the threat.
The Royals had another shot in the 7th, when Salvador Perez singled, and moved to second on a groundout. With two outs, John Rave singled, but Salvy couldn’t score. Josh Rojas flied out to end the inning.
Michael Wacha was really good again, and again, like all season, received no run support. His final line was 6 innings, 5 hits, 3 runs (1 earned) and 7 strikeouts. Nate Pearson and Easton McGee each looked good in their one inning of work.
The Royals will try and even the series tomorrow night, with first pitch at 6:40 p.m. CT. Luinder Avila will get the start.
