Kansas City 3, St. Louis 0
When: 8:10 PM ET, Friday, May 20, 2011
Where: Kauffman Stadium, Kansas City, Missouri
Temperature:
70°
Umpires:
Home -
Joe West, 1B -
Angel Hernandez, 2B -
Angel Campos, 3B -
Chad Fairchild
Attendance:
26816
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Jeff Francis outdueled Chris Carpenter to earn his first win as the host Royals beat St. Louis 3-0 in the I-70 series opener Friday night.
Francis (1-5) went 7 2/3 innings, allowing six hits, striking out six and walking two.
The game was scoreless until Kansas City's three-run seventh. Billy Butler led off with a single, went to third on Wilson Betemit's double and scored on Brayan Pena's sacrifice fly. Alcides Escobar's RBI single made it 2-0 and Melky Cabrera plated a third run with a sacrifice fly.
Aaron Crow got the final out of the eighth and Joakim Soria pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for his seventh save.
Carpenter fell to 1-4 as he continued to get little run support. The righthander allowed three runs and nine hits in 6 1/3 innings.
The Royals won their second straight after five losses while snapping the Cards' four-game win streak. K.C. improved to 27-34 against its in-state rival since the creation of interleague play.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| St. Louis |
|
Kansas City |
|
Chris Carpenter
|
Player |
Jeff Francis |
|
Loss |
W/L |
Win |
|
6.1 |
IP |
7.2 |
|
5 |
Strikeouts |
6 |
|
9 |
Hits |
6 |
|
4.26 |
ERA |
0.00 |
Hitting
| St. Louis |
|
Kansas City |
|
Jon Jay
| Player |
Chris Getz
|
|
2 |
Hits |
2 |
|
0 |
RBI |
0 |
|
0 |
HR |
0 |
|
2 |
TB |
2 |
|
.500 |
Avg |
.667 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| St. Louis
|
6 |
0 |
7 |
.194 |
13 |
8 |
0 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
| Kansas City
|
9 |
0 |
10 |
.300 |
10 |
5 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
0 |