王室のs shoot for another quick start vs. 後見人s
It's hard to think of the lowly 王室のs as an attacking baseball team, but when Kansas City comes out hot and hitting, the club finds a way to 後継する.
にもかかわらず owning the second-worst 記録，記録的な／記録する in the majors, the 王室のs are 22-5 on the season when they have led after six innings. That 傾向 continued Monday when they jumped to an 早期に advantage against the host Cleveland 後見人s and held on for a 5-3 勝利，勝つ.
"I think everywhere we go, when we start 早期に, we've got a lot of 適切な時期, a chance to 勝利，勝つ the game," said Salvador Perez, Kansas City's eight-time All-星／主役にする catcher. "I hope we can keep doing that (Tuesday)."
In the opener of the three-game series on Monday, 王室のs leadoff man Maikel Garcia and cleanup hitter Perez both ホームランd and No. 2 乱打する Bobby Witt Jr. went 2-for-4 with a run.
"生産／産物, 関わりなく where we get it from, is a 特別手当," Kansas City 経営者／支配人 Matt Quatraro said. "Those guys, we have them 近づく the 最高の，を越す of the order because we feel they have the chance to be the most 生産力のある guys. Guys go through streaks, but we hope we can keep them all 生産力のある going 今後."
Cleveland 経営者／支配人 Terry Francona is always 用心深い of an 待ち伏せ／迎撃する when 直面するing the 王室のs.
"They are ultra-積極的な 早期に, and that's typical of that team," Francona said. "They swing the bats 早期に, they're hitting the ball or fouling balls off, and your 投手s' pitch count goes up. And for us, いつかs we have a hard time keeping the line moving. I wish that wasn't the 事例／患者, but that's just the way it is."
The scheduled Tuesday starting 投手s -- Kansas City's 39-year-old 権利-hander Zack Greinke and Cleveland's Aaron Civale, a five-year 退役軍人 -- have plenty of career experience against their 対抗者s.
Civale (3-2, 2.71 ERA) （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 the 王室のs 3-0 on July 7 in Cleveland, throwing seven two-攻撃する，衝突する innings with nine strikeouts and no walks.
In his career, Civale is 3-1 in eight starts against Kansas City with a 3.50 ERA over 46 1/3 innings, striking out 44 against nine walks. However, he has 許すd eight career ホームランs to the 王室のs.
Greinke (1-10, 5.40) has logged a 12-9 記録，記録的な／記録する and 3.40 ERA against the Cleveland franchise in 36 games (31 starts) during his 20-year career. He has 152 strikeouts in 188 innings vs. Cleveland -- but many of those were in better times for the 退役軍人 投手.
On June 29 in Kansas City, Greinke got a no-決定／判定勝ち（する） after giving up 11 攻撃する，衝突するs and two runs in six innings against the 後見人s in a game the 王室のs won 4-3 in 10 innings. It was a contest typical of late-career Greinke, who 許すd a lot of soft 接触する and 記録，記録的な／記録するd seven outs on ground balls and eight on 飛行機で行く balls.
Greinke also showed off his 退役軍人 savvy and 防御の 技術s (he has won six Gold Glove awards) in the fifth inning of that game by covering third base to tag out Josh Bell after all the 王室のs infielders had 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金d into shallow left field to chase a bloop 選び出す／独身 by Andres Gimenez.
"I think there were three extra outs on the bases, which helped," said Greinke, who also 選ぶd off a 走者 in the game. "They 勝利，勝つ a lot of games doing that (存在 積極的な), and it just 肉親，親類d of worked out good for us today."
--Field Level マスコミ
