The Kansas City Royals scored a pair of runs in the top half of the sixth inning to extend their lead over the San Francisco Giants to 3-0 in Game 3 of the World Series.
Royals extend lead over Giants to 3-0 in 6th inning
Alex Gordon and Eric Hosmer came up with run-scoring hits for the Royals.
Thearon W. Henderson
Alcides Escobar picked up his second hit of the game with a one-out single to set the stage for Alex Gordon, who drove a 1-0 sinker from Tim Hudson over the head of Gregor Blanco to plate Escobar. Hudson was pulled after getting Lorenzo Cain to ground out for the second out of the inning. Javier Lopez came on in relief and gave up a line-drive single to Eric Hosmer on a 3-2 pitch, scoring Gordon.
Hudson allowed three runs on four hits in 5⅔ innings. He struck out two batters and walked one.
Gordon’s RBI was his 10th run in 11 games in the 2014 playoffs. He’s now tied for the Royals’ all-time postseason lead in the category with Willie Aikens, who accomplished the feat in nine games in 1980.
Royals starter Jeremy Guthrie has tossed five scoreless innings and allowed only two hits. Guthrie has not walked or struck out a batter. If that holds, he would become the first pitcher in postseason history to complete an outing of more than 5⅓ innings without a walk or a punch-out, notes Joel Sherman of the New York Post.
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