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- Updated: May 4, 2016
KANSAS CITY — Royals first baseman Eric Hosmer stood next to manager Ned Yost in the dugout when Alex Gordon started the ninth inning with a single as the Royals trailed, 6-4, on Tuesday night.
Hosmer turned to Yost and said confidently, “This is how it starts. This is how it starts.”
Hosmer’s forecast was spot on. The reeling Royals, losers of six of seven before Tuesday, rallied for three runs off closer Jonathan Papelbon and stunned the Nationals, 7-6.
Certainly a spirited comeback from a game that seemed lost could pull the Royals out of their recent slump. And the stirring win could do wonders for several slumping Royals who played big parts.
Gordon was just 2-for-his-last-25 but got the rally started. Lorenzo Cain, who finished third in the American League Most Valuable Player Award voting last season, entered the game hitting .231. And Cain won Tuesday’s game with a two-out single to left-center, driving in Mike Moustakas, whose …
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