{"id":770,"date":"2010-04-08T01:40:17","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T05:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=770"},"modified":"2010-04-08T01:40:17","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T05:40:17","slug":"hochevar-strong-ankiel-lifts-royals-in-11th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2010\/04\/08\/hochevar-strong-ankiel-lifts-royals-in-11th\/","title":{"rendered":"Hochevar strong, Ankiel lifts Royals in 11th"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:right;margin-left:5px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/default.aspx?iid=4776808&amp;term=%5c%22luke+hochevar\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.picapp.com\/ftp\/Images\/1\/e\/5\/7\/Oakland_Athletics_vs_b670.JPG?adImageId=12208456&amp;imageId=4776808\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Oakland Athletics vs Kansas City Royals\/SPORTS\" width=\"234\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Rick Ankiel connected for a walk-off double in the bottom of the 11th inning to help the Royals defeat the Tigers 3-2. However just as importantly for the Royals may have been the strong outing from Luke Hochevar.<\/p>\n<p>Hochevar, a 26-year-old right hander, held the Tigers scoreless for 7 2\/3 innings on five hits. He had his fast ball working well into the game and held down what figures to be a good Tigers offense. It&#8217;s a good sight for a pitcher who was 7-13 with a 6.55 ERA and a 1.49 WHIP last season.<\/p>\n<p>After an RBI single by Chris Getz in the bottom of the seventh The Royals held a 1-0 lead. They kept that lead going into the ninth but closer Joakim Soria gave up a solo homer to Miguel Cabrera. Carlos Guillen would drive in Don Kelly in the top of the 11th to give the Tigers the lead.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t take long for things to unravel for Detroit from there, Alberto Callaspo hit a solo home run of his own off Tigers closer Jose Valverde in the bottom of the frame to tie the game and the next batter Billy Butler reached on a single. Following the placement of Willie Bloomquist as a pinch runner outfielder Rick Ankiel stepped to the plate. Ankiel then ripped a double to right and the Royals were off to their first win of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Ankiel connected for a walk-off double in the bottom of the 11th inning to help the Royals defeat the Tigers 3-2. However just as importantly for the Royals may have been the strong outing from Luke Hochevar. Hochevar, a 26-year-old right hander, held the Tigers scoreless for 7 2\/3 innings on five hits. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,353,387],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-baseball","8":"tag-kansas-city-royals","9":"tag-luke-hochevar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}