Royals Win Nail-biter

Scott Elarton had another excellent outing tonight, going 6 innings, and giving up just one earned run. But he still doesn't have a win to show for his efforts, even though he lowered his ERA to 3.86. He left the game with it tied at 1-1. The game stayed tied until the bottom of the eighth when the White Sox took a 2-1 lead.

Aaron Guiel contributed right away tonight by walking to lead off the ninth. Berroa somehow managed to get down a sacrifice bunt. Graffanino walked. And German drove Guiel in with a single. Then Robinson followed with an RBI single to give the Royals the lead. After a base-running error by Robinson (how many of those have we had already?), Mientkiewicz walked, and Matt Stairs came up with a big single to drive in two runs and to give us a 5-2 lead. We needed both runs because the White Sox mounted a come back in the bottom of the ninth, but they fell one run short and the Royals won 5-4.

We actually have back to back wins on the road.

Tomorrow we get to find out if we can win three in a row. Runelvys Hernandez (1-1, 2.63) goes against Javier Vazquez (3-1, 3.00).