Great start from Sanchez: Jays beat Royals

Royals 2 Blue Jays 6

So Aaron Sanchez was absolutely terrific again. 8 innings of 3 hit ball. Other than the Kendys Morales home run, he was never in trouble. He only had 3 strikeouts and he had more hard hit balls to the outfield than normal. And Kevin Pillar made a couple of very nice catches, to help him out, but Sanchez kept the Royals off balance all night. GameDay had him at 9 ground outs and 5 fly outs. Aaron also made a very nice catch on a hard line drive right back at him.

We are going to want his parents watching every game.

Brett Cecil gave up a 2-out home run in the 9th, that just barely scraped over the wall, but with a 5-run lead, that was ok.

On offense, we scored a run in the first on 2 walks and 2 ground outs. And then nothing, until the seventh inning.

In the 7th we finally got to Edinson Volquez. We loaded the bases on a Russell Martin walk, a Troy Tulowitzki single and Pillar taking a pitch off the elbow. I was worried he was hurt.

Volquez was out, after 99 pitches, and Luke Hochevar came in. Hochevar:

• Walked Devon Travis to bring in the go ahead run.
• Gave up a single to Darwin Barney, scoring 2.
• Watched Ezequiel Carrera bunt Travis and Barney to third and second. Carrera came close to beating it out.
• And gave up a Josh Donaldson single to make it 6-1.