The Royals scored early and often against a banged-up Jake Peavy and the Giants bullpen to force a Game 7.
The Kansas City Royals scored seven runs in the second inning behind rookie starter Yordano Ventura on Tuesday en route to a 10-0 victory in Game 6 of the World Series.
Giants starter Jake Peavy, who was battling a sore thumb leading up to his second start of the series, surrendered five runs on five hits in that inning alone before being pulled from the game with only four outs under his belt. Yusmeiro Petit entered the game in relief and gave up two more runs, and the rout was officially on in Kansas City.
Five Royals players had two hits, including Lorenzo Cain, who also knocked in three runs. Yordano Ventura, the Royals' 23-year-old rookie making his second start of the Fall Classic, tossed seven shutout innings to lower his ERA as a starter this postseason to 2.52. Ventura allowed a pair of singles and just one extra-base hit -- Hunter Pence's second-inning double -- against a Giants lineup that racked up 28 total hits in Games 4 and 5.
Want to win a World Series game? Start a rookie at home
After Ventura's dominant outing, home teams starting a rookie pitcher in the World Series are now 16-2.
Ventura certainly looked like a rookie in one aspect: He allowed five walks. However, Ventura threw enough gas to keep the Giants from being able to capitalize on the wildness. Of his 100 pitches, 64 traveled 95-plus mph, and four of those reached triple digits on the radar gun, according to the FOX broadcast. The strong velocity helped Ventura induce 10 groundouts and a lot of otherwise weak contact.
He's human, after all
Petit entered Tuesday having held the opposition scoreless while striking out 13 batters and allowing only four hits in 12 innings this postseason. He had to come back down to Earth sometime, and it just happened to be in a situation where the Giants needed him to stop the bleeding. Despite allowing a pair of runs on three hits in the second inning, Petit is the owner of a still-shiny 1.42 ERA in the 2014 playoffs.
Strickland's horrific postseason just became historic
Mike Moustakas homered in the seventh inning to give the Royals a 10-0 lead -- and give Giants reliever Hunter Strickland a place in baseball history that he probably didn't want. The home run was the sixth allowed by Strickland in the 2014 playoffs, setting a new MLB record for most deep flies allowed in a single postseason. For what it's worth, Strickland held his opponents scoreless and gave up only five hits in nine appearances during the regular season.
The difference between bad and good postseason pitchers
If Madison Bumgarner gives up 52 straight HRs, he'll still have a lower career postseason ERA than Jake Peavy.
— Michael Rosenberg (@Rosenberg_Mike) October 29, 2014
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