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Royals lose early and often in 8-3 drubbing

With a runner on by way of a Melky Cabrera flare to shallow left, José Abreu accepted Ian Kennedy’s gift of a two-seamer down the pipe and sent a screaming liner (113 MPH) into the stands in deep left center. This hung dong put the White Sox up 2-0 in the first. In other words, the game was basically over with eight-and-half innings left to go.

When the game is over because two runs were scored in the first, any further description of the goings-on is probably unnecessary, but here goes.

An inning later, Kennedy missed his spot with a changeup, and third baseman Matt Davidson sent that pitch careening 452 feet into the waterfall in left.