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Kansas City Royals Win Game 2 of ALCS, But May Lose P Yordano Ventura

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The Kansas City Royals have not only survived this postseason on tremendous defense, solid pitching and clutch hitting — they’ve been able to dominate with all three.

Through five innings of Game 2 of the ALCS, Yordano Ventura was cruising along with more solid pitching. He wasn’t tearing down the house by any means, but he was keeping his team in a position to win the game. He was certainly doing a better job of it than James Shields did in Game 1.

But unfortunately for the Royals, Ventura’s outing ended abruptly. The rookie RHP started to experience shoulder tightness, and left the game with two outs in the top half of the sixth.

Obviously after that tweet was sent out the Royals were able to grab the lead in the top of the ninth. They did it again this postseason using the most simple of philosophies, as Ernie Johnson pointed out during the broadcast — “get ‘em on, get ‘em over, get ‘em in.”

The other main story for KC in Game 2 was the play of Lorenzo Cain. The OF knocked in the go-ahead run, went 4 for 5 at the plate and once again dazzled in the outfield with his speed and glove. (Check out his amazing diving grab in the sixth inning HERE.)

Cain is quickly becoming the breakout star of the 2014 MLB Playoffs.

As for the Baltimore Orioles, they have zero momentum headed back to KC down 0-2. But it’s October baseball, so don’t write them off quite yet.

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