Recap: Cleveland vs. Kansas City
Sports Network | September 13, 2008
Cleveland, OH (Sports Network) - Ross Gload and Alberto Callaspo each collected a pair of hits and two RBI as Kansas City downed Cleveland, 8-3, in the opening contest of a day-night doubleheader.
Mark Teahen finished 3-for-5 with an RBI and a run scored, while Mike Aviles and John Buck also knocked in runs for the Royals, who have won two of three.
Zack Greinke (11-10) hurled six innings for the win, allowing nine hits and three runs with five strikeouts and a walk.
Jamey Carroll, Shin-Soo Choo and Andy Marte drove in a run each for the Indians, who have lost two of three. Starter Fausto Carmona (8-7) suffered the loss after yielding 11 hits and seven runs over 6 1/3 frames.
Game 2 is scheduled to begin at 7:05 p.m (et).
Kansas City broke open the contest with a four-run seventh.
David DeJesus began the frame with a double and Aviles followed with a single, and after a Jose Guillen pop out, Carmona's wild pitch allowed DeJesus to score and put Aviles at second.
Billy Butler walked and Rich Rundles came on to strike out Teahen. Gload's single scored Aviles for a 6-3 game and Callaspo followed with a base hit to plate pinch-runner Jason Smith. Edward Mujica got the call but gave up another hit, this time to Buck, which scored Gload to put KC up 8-3.
John Bale held Cleveland off the board in the seventh, then Leo Nunez added two innings of scoreless relief to wrap up the contest.
Weather pushed back the start of the game for two hours and 14 minutes, but that did not affect the Tribe, who picked up a run in the first on a Choo sacrifice fly.
The Royals countered with a pair in the third on RBI singles from Aviles and Teahen.
Cleveland knotted the game on Carroll's fifth-inning, run-scoring single, but the Royals responded in the sixth on back-to-back RBI hits by Gload and Callaspo.
Marte's run-scoring single in the home half cut the home team's deficit to 4-3 before the Royals' deluge pushed the game in their favor.
Cleveland has won 10 of the 16 meetings this season...Teahen is hitting .419 (13-for-31) with four RBI and five multi-hit games in his last eight contests...It was Carmona's first career loss to Kansas City.
