The Toronto Blue Jays scored six runs in the bottom of the 6th inning, as they beat the visiting KC Royals, 6-3. This was after the Royals led 3-0.

Outside of two innings, the game in Toronto was scoreless.

The Royals scored three runs off Blue Jays starter Brett Cecil in the top of the 3rd inning. Jeff Francoeur and Salvador Perez led off the inning with back-to-back singles. Jason Bourgeois tripled both of them in. Alex Gordon followed with a sac fly and that was all the scoring for the Royals.

Cecil retired nine in a row before Mike Moustakas doubled to lead off the 7th inning to chase him from the game. The Royals could do nothing against the Blue Jays bullpen.

The top four in the Royals order went 0-for-4. The bottom half went 6-for-17.

Now let’s talk about that six-run 4th inning for the Blue Jays. With one out and runners at the corners, Edwin Encarnacion singled in a run. After Royals starter Vin Mazzaro struck out Kelly Johnson, Yunel Escobar singled to load the bases for Rajai Davis, who singled in two runs.

That brought a coaching visit, that did not help, as Adam Lind homered to cap the scoring.

Yet, Mazzaro kept on pitching. He was eventually removed in the bottom of the 6th inning with one on and one out. Here’s his final line: 5.1IP, 13H, 6R, 0BB, 3K.

After giving up all those hits, I guess we can be thankful Mazzaro didn’t give up more runs.

The Royals and Blue Jays continue their series up in Toronto, with Luis Mendoza facing Carlos Villanueva on Wednesday.

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I had my fingers crossed that Vin Mazzaro wouldn’t get spanked this time around. It didn’t start out well as he allowed three first inning runs to the visiting Toronto Blue Jays. Adam Lind, who has been back off the DL for a whole four days, hit a two-homerun.

In the bottom of the first the KC Royals came right back as Jeff Francoeur drove in one run with one out. With runners at first and third, Billy Butler hit into an inning-ending double-play.

The Blue Jays would score a single run in the second and two more in the 5th. The Royals scored two in the bottom of the 5th, but it could have been a LOT more. Melky Cabrera and Eric Hosmer led off the inning with back-to-back singles and moved up a base on a wild pitch by Blue Jays starter Kyle Drabek (he had four wild pitches in the game). However those two scored on RBI ground outs from Francouer and Butler. Has anyone heard of hitting the ball into the gap (or out of the park)? The Royals lack of power is seriously an issue.

So Mazzaro allowed six runs on eight hits over five innings. Oh but he lowered his ERA to 17.47. Yikes!

The Blue Jays would tack on two more runs in the top of the 8th on JP Arencibia’s two-run homerun off reliever Tim Collins and won 8-5 despite the fact that the Royals had more hits (11-9).

The bright spots in the loss? Rookie reliever Louis Coleman pitched 1.2 perfect innings of relief, while striking out two (he threw 18 pitches, 14 for strikes). Hosmer went 2-for-4 to raise his average to .310. Maybe he’ll get some Rookie of the Year votes?