10B SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2009
MLB
Kansas City Royals starting pitcher Zack Greinke throws in the first inning of a baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday. Greinke got his Major League leading fifth victory of the season in an 11-3 triumph.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Greinke collects fifth win
Billy Butler chips in two home runs as Royals defeat Blue Jays 11-3
BY DOUG TUCKER Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Zack Greinke gave up an earned run for the first time in 43 innings, but Billy Butler backed him up with two homers and the Kansas City Royals had 11 extra-base hits in an 11-3 rout of the Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday night.
Vernon Wells' RBI single with two outs in the first produced the first earned run off Greinke (5-0) since last September, a span of six starts. After throwing complete game shutouts his two previous starts, Grienke went seven innings, allowing five hits and two runs with two walks and eight strikeouts. He leads the AL with 44 strikeouts.
His ERA climbed from 0.00 to 0.50.
Butler, hitting .193 when the game began, was 4 for 4 with two homers, a double, four RBIs and four runs scored. He homered, doubled and homered in three at-bats off left-hander Brian Tallet (1-1), who was charged with 10 runs on 11 hits in four-plus innings.
Besides Butler's two homers, the Royals had Mark Teahen's two-run shot, Mike Aviles' two-run triple, and seven doubles. The Royals had 15 hits in all.
Marco Scutaro doubled leading off against Greinke, the first pitcher in Royals history to post a 5-0
April. After Aaron Hill and Alex Rios struck out, Wells dropped an RBI single into right-center. Before that, the only run off Greinke this year was unearned, off a throwing error by shortstop Aviles.
He gave up another run in the third when Scutaro walked leading off and eventually scored from third on a double-play grounder. Greinke, whose 43 innings without an earned run are a club record, joined former Los Angeles Dodger great Fernando Valenzuela as the only pitchers since the early 1900s to not allow an earned run through their first four starts of a season.
Aviles also had one of the Royals' doubles while Coco Crisp had two doubles and scored twice.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kansas City Royals second baseman Alberto Callaso, left, throws to first past Toronto Blue Jays' Alex Rios as he completes a double play in the eighth inning Wednesday. Jose Bautista was at first,
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