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THURSDAY, MAY 9, 2013
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
BASEBALL
Royals allow five runs, lose second straight to Orioles
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Kansas City Royals starting pitcher Luis Mendoza walks off the field after the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles in Baltimore, Wednesday, May 8. Baltimore scored three runs in the fifth.
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BALTIMORE — J.J. Hardy homered, Chris Tillman won his third straight start and the Baltimore Orioles took advantage of three errors by the Kansas City Royals in a 5-3 victory Thursday night.
Manny Machado scored a run and hit an RBI single for the Orioles, whose season-high fourth consecutive win moved them eight games over .500 (21-13) for the first time this year.
Tillman (3-1) allowed three runs and five hits in six innings. The right-hander came in 0-2 with a 10.93 ERA in three career starts against the Royals.
Baltimore has been outhit in each of its past three games, including 7-5 in this one. The Orioles are 3-6 when outhit by their opponent.
Troy Patton pitched the seventh, Darren O'Day and Brian Matusz worked the eighth and Jim Johnson got three outs for his 13th save.
Alex Gordon hit his second home run in two games and Mike Monstakas went 3 for 4 with a homer for Kansas City.
It was the 34th successive save opportunity converted by Johnson, tying the club record set by Randv Mvers in 1997.
Luis Mendoza (0-2) gave up five runs, three earned, and five hits in six innings for the Rovals.
The game turned in the fifth inning, when the Orioles went up 5-1 with a three-run uprising fueled by three Kansas City errors and a wild pitch. After Chris Dickerson hit a leadoff double, shortstop Alcides Escobar grabbed Nate McLouth's sharp grounder and tried to get Dickerson at third, but the throw hit Dickerson to put runners at the corners.
McLouth promptly stole second, and Machado followed with a single to bring home Dickerson. Machado then stole second, and McLouth came home after Escobar couldn't handle the poor throw from catcher George Kottaras. Escobar's throw home was also off target, allowing Machado to take third, and he scored when Mendoza uncorked a wild pitch.
Baltimore took a 2-0 lead in the second when Matt Watters led off with a single and Hardy followed with a drive just inside the left-field foul pole. It was his sixth
home run of the season, the third in four games.
Mendoza didn't allow another base runner until Hardy drew a two-out walk in the fourth.
Tillman blanked the Royals on two hits through four innings, then retired the first two batters in the fifth before Gordon homered to right. That ended Tillman's run of consecutive scoreless innings at 15, a streak that began on April 27 in Oakland.
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HOCKEY
Minnesota Wild shoot poorly, lose to Chicago Blackhawks at home
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Chicago Blackhawks were beaten the last game in the corners, along the boards and by an overtime goal for the Minnesota Wild.
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By hurling their bodies in front of puck after puck, the Blackhawks stopped the Wild's momentum right where it started.
Chicago Blackhawks 'Bryan Bickell, second from right, celebrates with teammates after he scored against Minnesota wild backup goalie Darcy Kuemer in the third period of Game 4 of an NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoff series, Tuesday, May 7 in St. Paul, Minn. The Blackhawks won 3-0. At right is Michael Rozsival of Czech Republic.
Patrick Sharp scored two goals and the Blackhawks ratched up their defense to put the Wild on the brink of elimination with a 3-0 victory on Tuesday.
"It's just been a calm, collected confidence we've had all year. I think we definitely showed that tonight," said goalie Corey Crawford, who made 25 saves for his second career playoff shutout. "So many power play situations for them, and we just kept our cool. We didn't freak out on the refs or lose it on each other. We just stuck with it."
Bryan Bickell also scored for the Blackhawks, who built a 3-1 lead in this best-of-seven matchup. Game 5 is back in Chicago on Thursday night.
"People want to make a big deal of the hits. That's fine. We've won physical games before," Sharp said. "We've won games with our speed and playmaking ability. So whatever the type of game is out there, I feel confident in our guys."
The Wild had another goalie get hurt when Josh Harding's injury forced Darcy Kuemper into action after the first intermission. Sharp scored on Chicago's first shot at the rookie 62 seconds into the second period.
"It's just been a calm, collected confidence we've had all year."
went scoreless in six such situations (including one 66 seconds into the game and a back-to-back set in the third period) and is 0 for 15 in the series.
"Just being smart in lanes and battling for pucks. That's been a positive for our team all year," said Blackhawks defenseman Duncan Keith, who joined the team right before the game after being with his wife earlier in the day for the birth of their first child.
Minnesota, the only one of the 16 NHL, playoff teams without a power-play goal this postseason,
When Niklas Backstrom was injured warming up before Game 1, Harding was sent in. This time, Harding was hurt after Jonathan Toews landed on top of him during a collision in the crease. Harding's legs were straddled around the left
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post. He got up gingerly, staying in to finish the opening period after shaking his left leg back and forth several times and testing it with a slow skate behind the net. But Harding didn't return to the bench, and
Kuemper was in.
Harding stopped five of six shots, Kuemper made 16 saves. He also gave up Bickell's third goal of the series, in the third period on a shot that scraped the top of the net. Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville had little sympathy, and Wild coach Mike Yee declined to ask for any.
Kuemper, who made only three starts this season, had a tough initiation to the playoff. Sharp stole an off-target pass by Zach Parise at the Wild blue line, skated the other way with a one-on-one and sent a wrist shot between Kuemper's pads for a 2-0 lead that deflated the energy in the arena.
Ultimately, though, the guy between the pipes wasn't going to matter much for the Wild the way this game went.
"I was going to shoot that puck. It didn't matter who was in net," Sharp said.
"I've seen a lot of crazy things in the playoffs. You've got to predict
the unpredictable," Quenneville said.
The Blackhawks haven't been themselves as an offense in this series, save for the 5-2 victory in Game 2, but that's another testament to their dominance. They've got the depth everywhere on the roster to sustain a lagging top line. Marian Hossa, Toews and Brandon Saad have combined for only one goal, and Toews and Saad don't even have an assist yet.
But the Wild have had the same problem, and they're not nearly as equipped to withstand it. Parise, Mikko Koivu and Charlie Coyle have combined for only one goal themselves, and together they've posted a minus-14 rating over four games.
Even with Jason Pominville's sharp shot back on the point with the first power play unit, the home team kept misfiring. Whether a one-timer that zipped wide of the net or a slap shot blocked by one of the self-sacrificing Blackhawks, Chicago blocked 20 shots over the first two periods and finished with 26 for the game.
"It probably wasn't the greatest of nights. But I'll say this: If you know them the way that I do, you'd be really excited to watch them play the next game," Yeo said.
Minnesota attempted 68 shots to Chicago's 46.
And the Wild, in addition to their struggles with shooting accuracy, paid for a couple of sloppy plays. There was Parise's intercepted pass in the second period. And midway through the opening period, Hossa picked off a pass from Koivu to Parise in the Wild zone. Hossa sent the puck to Handzus, whose slap shot was tipped in by a perfectly positioned Sharp at the edge of the crease.
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