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Indians finish off Royals three weeks later in 10th inning of suspended game
Three weeks, three outs, and two ballparks in two different cities later, the Cleveland Indians beat the Kansas City Royals 4-3 in 10 innings Monday night in the resumption of a suspended game from Aug. 31.
In the scheduled second game at Progressive Field, the Royals won 2-0 behind left-hander Danny Duffy — who also happened to start the suspended game that began at Kauffman Stadium.
The Indians maintained a 4-2 lead for three weeks until the teams could meet again in Ohio, where they resumed in the bottom of the 10th. Scott Atchison got three outs for the save, thwarting a Royals rally that put the tying run at second base and two down. Omar Infante popped out with pinch runner Jarrod Dyson at second.
As a result of the split, the Indians stayed within 3 1/2 games of the Royals in the American League wild-card race, with Kansas City trying to reach the playoffs for the first time in 29 years.
''It was a good day for us,'' manager Ned Yost said. ''We wanted to get that suspended game behind us. We knew that was looming over our heads. It's like we've been saying, nobody knows what's going to happen.''
The resumed game could have been an anticlimactic tenth inning that lasted 90 seconds, but with both clubs having so long to gameplan, and with expanded rosters giving managers deep benches, the possibility remained for lots of maneuvers, and even stranger events in which the visiting Royals could walk-off in the home team's ballpark. That didn't happen, but the Royals did drum up some drama in their lone turn at-bat.
Mike Moustakas fought off a pitch and beat Cleveland's defensive shift with a bloop single to lead off. With two outs, Nori Aoki brought home pinch-runner Terrance Gore — who began the game at Class AA in the minors — with a sharp RBI single to left. After Dyson stole second base, Atchison put the Indians away.
The Royals lose, 4-3. They are 84-71. The bottom of the 10th inning took three weeks and nine minutes.
— Andy McCullough (@McCulloughStar) September 22, 2014
On Aug. 31 in front of a national TV audience, Alex Gordon hit a tying home run in the bottom of the ninth before the Indians nicked closer Greg Holland for two runs in the top of the 10th, just before a deluge hit Kauffman Stadium. It being a Sunday night and Cleveland's final visit to Kansas City for the regular season, Major League Baseball decided to resume when the teams next played at Cleveland.
The Royals were the home team for the resumed game but wore road gray uniforms.
In the nightcap, Duffy overcame shaky command to toss six scoreless innings, and Kansas City's bullpen was no easier for Cleveland to attack. Duffy had thrown just one pitch in September after sustaining a sore shoulder in his previous outing.
The Indians have two more chances to close ground on K.C., and likely need to win both games to have a chance at the playoffs. As a result of Detroit's loss to Chicago, the Royals also closed within a game of first in the AL Central.
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