Volquez sharp as Royals beat Blue Jays 5-0 in ALCS opener, Edinson Volquez gave the Blue Jays addition acumen to rue him Friday night.
The Royals right-hander accumulated with three relievers on a three-hitter, Salvador Perez hit a aerial home run off Toronto amateur Marco Estrada, and Kansas City formed to a 5-0 achievement in Bold 1 of their American Alliance Championship Series.
Volquez (1-1) ramped up his fastball to 97 mph to allotment through a almighty Blue Jays offense, never acceptance a agent accomplished additional abject over six innings. His alone agitation occurred if he absolved the aboriginal two batters in the sixth, but he wiggled out of it after any damage.
The Royals' abode accomplished off the club's eighth after ALCS victory.
"There was a lot of energy," said Volquez, who had been 0-3 with an 8.76 ERA in three postseason starts. "I don't know. I was just authoritative my pitches."
Alcides Escobar and Lorenzo Cain collection in runs off Estrada (1-1), while Eric Hosmer and Kendrys Morales tacked on two added off LaTroy Hawkins to put the bold away.
The Blue Jays' three hits were their atomic anytime in a postseason game.
"Tonight was the Volquez show. He was tremendous," Blue Jays administrator John Gibbons said. "He shut down a good-hitting team, I apperceive that. His brawl was bath and darting everywhere."
As if the aftereffect wasn't bad abundant for them, appointed hitter Edwin Encarnacion larboard in the eighth inning to get X-rays on the average feel of his larboard hand. The antecedent address was a ache of the bond and Encarnacion was listed as day-to-day.
"He's been aggressive this thing," Gibbons said. "We'll see how it goes."
The Royals will try to yield a 2-0 alternation advance if they forward Yordano Ventura to the bank on Saturday. Toronto will adverse with above Cy Young Award champ David Price.
The teams entered the best-of-seven alternation with affluence of history.
To alpha with, the arresting AL champs exhausted Toronto in the 1985 alliance championship series, again exhausted the St. Louis Cardinals for the Royals' alone World Alternation triumph. But far added afresh were the tense, benches-clearing bold that the teams played at Rogers Centre in August.
Volquez was appropriate in the blubbery of things.
The adept amateur kept casting the Blue Jays inside, assuredly hitting Josh Donaldson with a fastball. Tensions escalated as the bold went on, with Toronto analgesic Aaron Sanchez abiding the favor by hitting Escobar to activate the aboriginal of two benches-clearing scuffles.
Afterward, Volquez said Donaldson was "crying like a baby" over his central approach. And to nobody's surprise, Donaldson was booed audibly by the Kansas City army on Friday night.
That was the alone acumen for the arranged abode to boo, though.
After abandonment a scoring adventitious in the aboriginal inning, the Royals jumped advanced in the third. Alex Gordon led off with a double, Escobar beatific an RBI bifold down the right-field line, and Cain's two-out individual helped Kansas City -- so acclimatized to arena from abaft -- to a 2-0 lead.
Perez added his third adjudicator of the postseason on the aboriginal angle he saw in the fourth, the auspicious of the throaty, flag-waving army extensive a acme as it anesthetized over the wall.
As all-a-quiver was Estrada was, Volquez was absolute aloof as he circled the mound.
He did not acquiesce a hit until his 56th pitch, if Chris Colabello chopped a individual up the average with two outs in the fourth. It airtight a postseason hitless band of 10 2-3 innings for the Royals, one out shy of analogous the almanac set by the New York Yankees in 1939.
The better of the Blue Jays' big bats fabricated the quietest outs, too.
Jose Bautista went down searching in the fourth inning, while Encarnacion addled out searching in the sixth. Donaldson managed a airing off Volquez but little else, while Tulowitzki -- one of the Blue Jays' big borderline acquisitions -- went 0 for 4 with two strikeouts.
"Eddie was superb," Royals administrator Ned Yost said. "He had aggregate going."
The Royals right-hander accumulated with three relievers on a three-hitter, Salvador Perez hit a aerial home run off Toronto amateur Marco Estrada, and Kansas City formed to a 5-0 achievement in Bold 1 of their American Alliance Championship Series.
Volquez (1-1) ramped up his fastball to 97 mph to allotment through a almighty Blue Jays offense, never acceptance a agent accomplished additional abject over six innings. His alone agitation occurred if he absolved the aboriginal two batters in the sixth, but he wiggled out of it after any damage.
The Royals' abode accomplished off the club's eighth after ALCS victory.
"There was a lot of energy," said Volquez, who had been 0-3 with an 8.76 ERA in three postseason starts. "I don't know. I was just authoritative my pitches."
Alcides Escobar and Lorenzo Cain collection in runs off Estrada (1-1), while Eric Hosmer and Kendrys Morales tacked on two added off LaTroy Hawkins to put the bold away.
The Blue Jays' three hits were their atomic anytime in a postseason game.
"Tonight was the Volquez show. He was tremendous," Blue Jays administrator John Gibbons said. "He shut down a good-hitting team, I apperceive that. His brawl was bath and darting everywhere."
As if the aftereffect wasn't bad abundant for them, appointed hitter Edwin Encarnacion larboard in the eighth inning to get X-rays on the average feel of his larboard hand. The antecedent address was a ache of the bond and Encarnacion was listed as day-to-day.
"He's been aggressive this thing," Gibbons said. "We'll see how it goes."
The Royals will try to yield a 2-0 alternation advance if they forward Yordano Ventura to the bank on Saturday. Toronto will adverse with above Cy Young Award champ David Price.
The teams entered the best-of-seven alternation with affluence of history.
To alpha with, the arresting AL champs exhausted Toronto in the 1985 alliance championship series, again exhausted the St. Louis Cardinals for the Royals' alone World Alternation triumph. But far added afresh were the tense, benches-clearing bold that the teams played at Rogers Centre in August.
Volquez was appropriate in the blubbery of things.
The adept amateur kept casting the Blue Jays inside, assuredly hitting Josh Donaldson with a fastball. Tensions escalated as the bold went on, with Toronto analgesic Aaron Sanchez abiding the favor by hitting Escobar to activate the aboriginal of two benches-clearing scuffles.
Afterward, Volquez said Donaldson was "crying like a baby" over his central approach. And to nobody's surprise, Donaldson was booed audibly by the Kansas City army on Friday night.
That was the alone acumen for the arranged abode to boo, though.
After abandonment a scoring adventitious in the aboriginal inning, the Royals jumped advanced in the third. Alex Gordon led off with a double, Escobar beatific an RBI bifold down the right-field line, and Cain's two-out individual helped Kansas City -- so acclimatized to arena from abaft -- to a 2-0 lead.
Perez added his third adjudicator of the postseason on the aboriginal angle he saw in the fourth, the auspicious of the throaty, flag-waving army extensive a acme as it anesthetized over the wall.
As all-a-quiver was Estrada was, Volquez was absolute aloof as he circled the mound.
He did not acquiesce a hit until his 56th pitch, if Chris Colabello chopped a individual up the average with two outs in the fourth. It airtight a postseason hitless band of 10 2-3 innings for the Royals, one out shy of analogous the almanac set by the New York Yankees in 1939.
The better of the Blue Jays' big bats fabricated the quietest outs, too.
Jose Bautista went down searching in the fourth inning, while Encarnacion addled out searching in the sixth. Donaldson managed a airing off Volquez but little else, while Tulowitzki -- one of the Blue Jays' big borderline acquisitions -- went 0 for 4 with two strikeouts.
"Eddie was superb," Royals administrator Ned Yost said. "He had aggregate going."
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