Settling the Score: Saturday’s results

By Drew SilvaJun 15, 2014, 8:58 AM EDT
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Danny Duffy struck out nine batters over seven scoreless innings and the Kansas City offense rattled off nine runs on 16 hits Saturday in a 9-1 victory against the host White Sox. It was the sixth consecutive win for the Royals, who are now 9-3 in June and just a game-and-a-half back of the Tigers for first place in the American League Central.

Duffy, a 25-year-old former top prospect, opened the 2014 season with a 4.75 career ERA and 1.57 career WHIP in 157 1/3 major league innings. He boasts a 2.83 ERA and 1.11 WHIP in 54 frames this year.

The Royals will wrap up their three-game series in Chicago on Sunday afternoon and then head to Detroit for a massively-important four-game set.

Your box scores and recaps from Saturday:

Royals 9, White Sox 1

Cubs 4, Phillies 7

Blue Jays 2, Orioles 3

Indians 3, Red Sox 2

Rockies 5, Giants 4

Twins 9, Tigers 12

Rays 3, Astros 7

Padres 5, Mets 0

Pirates 8, Marlins 6

Reds 2, Brewers 4

Nationals 1, Cardinals 4

Angels 11, Braves 6

Yankees 1, Athletics 5

Rangers 4, Mariners 3

Diamondbacks 4, Dodgers 6

Dodgers-Cubs game was postponed by rain and faulty lighting

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By Craig CalcaterraJun 19, 2018, 9:29 AM EDT
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Last night’s Dodgers-Cubs game at Wrigley Field was postponed, but not just for rain. They had a lighting malfunction as well.

The storms rolled in a little after the game would’ve started, and the Cubs had the tarp on the field in preparation. It was a pretty big rain, though. Check this out:

Still, modern drainage is a wonderful thing, so the Cubs did have a chance to get this one in not too long after the rain stopped. But then something else happened: the lights on top of the right-field roof went dark:

(AP)

That got fixed, but then got un-fixed again soon after. By then there was another storm system getting ready to come in, so the Cubs just called it a night, citing the weather and “a partial power outage.” The lights are fixed this morning and the Dodgers and Cubs will play a split doubleheader starting today at 1PM Eastern.

In other news, it’s been almost 30 years since the first game with lights was played at Wrigley Field. The first effort at that was rained out, by the way, so they had to do it again the next day. It would seem that neither then nor now are the Baseball Gods terribly thrilled with night baseball on the North Side.