With the first swing of the game on Saturday, Royals left fielder Alex Gordon had already added to his great spring.
Gordon, who is still hitting above .400 in the Cactus League, led off the game by crushing a 2-0 offering from D-backs starter Trevor Cahill high onto the grassy hill in right field. It was the first of six runs the Royals crowned in their 6-5 victory over Arizona at Salt River Fields.
Cahill only allowed one more run in the first, but he settled in after that, looking sharp in the 4 2/3 innings he gave,only allowing just those two runs, while striking out six and giving up five hits. The newly acquired righty retired 13 of the last 15 hitters he faced, including 10 in a row after he allowed the second Royals run on a Jeff Francoeur single.
The D-backs first broke through against Sanchez on a Paul Goldschmidt RBI single that plated Chris Young. They scored two more off of Sanchez in a sixth-inning rally, but only one was earned.
Gordon was one of four Royals with two hits. Francoeur, Lorenzo Cain and Brayan Pena combined for six of the Royals' 12 hits in the game, grabbing 2 a piece.
Kansas City took the lead for good with a three-run homer in the seventh, off of the D-backs' Tyler Skaggs, who struggled mightily, allowing four runs in his three innings of work.
The D-backs strung together a rally in the bottom of the eighth, but it ended when Royals left fielder Jason Bourgeois gunned the tying run at the plate.
The Royals are finally clicking at all cylinders, hopefully they can keep it join from now till the All-Star break. Cain is hitting .488 right now right behind him is Gordon at .422, up next Butler, who is at .415, and Hosmer and Pena are hitting in the .360`s. This is great to hear from these guys, not to mention the bench players got the memo too as they are all hitting over .220. Not to bad, we are only 2 weeks away from the season beginning. How excited are you ? can we Repeat 2003, or can we do better?
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