Indians 15, Royals 4: Carlos Santana belted a two-run homer in the sixth inning to snap a tie and added a three-run shot during a seven-run ninth as visiting Cleveland ended its seven-game losing streak against Kansas City.
Asdrubal Cabrera and Ezequiel Carrera also drove in two runs apiece and David Huff pitched 5 2/3 strong innings for the Indians, who won for just the fourth time in 15 games.
Cabrera forged a 1-1 tie with a one-out RBI single in the sixth, and Santana followed with his 17th blast off Jake Odorizzi (0-1), who yielded three runs and six hits over 5 1/3 innings in his major-league debut. Santana completed his second two-homer performance of the season in the ninth to cap the monstrous rally.
Huff (2-0) allowed one run and three hits while walking one and striking out one in his second start of the year. The left-hander improved to 3-2 in five career starts against Kansas City.
Adam Moore hit a solo homer and Jeff Francoeur collected three hits and an RBI for the Royals, who had their four-game winning streak snapped as they finished 5-4 on their nine-game homestand.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Cleveland 1B Casey Kotchman, who hit an RBI single during his team's five-run seventh, made two of the three outs in the ninth. ... Santana also homered twice against Toronto on April 8. ... Moore's blast, which came in his first at-bat as a Royal, was his first since 2010 while with Seattle.
Cleveland | Kansas City | |
David Huff | Player | Jake Odorizzi |
Win | W/L | Loss |
5.2 | IP | 5.1 |
1 | Strikeouts | 3 |
3 | Hits | 6 |
1.59 | ERA | 5.06 |
Cleveland | Kansas City | |
Michael Brantley | Player | Jeff Francoeur |
3 | Hits | 3 |
0 | RBI | 1 |
0 | HR | 0 |
4 | TB | 4 |
.600 | Avg | .750 |
Team | Hits | HR | TB | Avg | LOB | K | RBI | BB | SB | Errors |
Cleveland | 16 | 2 | 25 | .372 | 19 | 3 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 0 |
Kansas City | 7 | 1 | 12 | .219 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 3 |