Adalberto Mondesi is back with the Kansas City Royals as part of a roster shuffle.
The Royals made six moves Sunday before playing Houston.
Mondesi Bart Starr Jersey , the first player to make his major league debut in a World Series game, was recalled from Triple-A Omaha.
The
Royals also called up outfielder Rosell Herrera and purchased the
contract of right-hander Wily Peralta from Omaha. They optioned
right-hander Scott Barlow and infielder Ramon Torres to their Pacific
Coast League affiliate. They transferred left-handed pitcher Eric
Skoglund to the 60-day disabled list.
Mondesi struck out
as a pinch-hitter in the 2015 World Series against the New York Mets. He
was once the Royals’ top prospect, but has been derailed by injuries
and a 50-game drug suspension in 2016.
The 22-year-old
opened the 2017 season as Kansas City’s starting second baseman, but was
sent back to the minors after hitting .109 in his first 14 games.
Mondesi, the son of former major league outfielder Raul Mondesi, has a
.181 batting average with 60 strikeouts in 188 at-bats in 72 games in
the majors.
”He’s never had success up here,” Royals
manager Ned Yost said. ”He’s a young guy. You just try to pace him a
little bit, play a couple of games here, a couple of games there and get
his feet on the ground, let him start to have some success, which we
all know he’s going to have, just let him ease into that.”
Yost said he plans to play Mondesi about four days a week.
”Every year he’s been hurt Bryan Bulaga Jersey ,
so that’s the concern,” Yost said. ”We want to try to get him through
the year healthy. We wanted to get Mondesi back playing and get him up
here, again to get some of our younger kids up that we’re going to move
forward with up here and gaining that experience.”
Mondesi hit .250 with 16 extra-base hits, 21 RBIs and 10 stolen bases in 29 games at Triple-A.
The
Royals claimed Herrera off waivers from Cincinnati on June 2. He hit
.278 in 10 games with Omaha. He went 2 for 11 in 13 games earlier this
season with the Reds.
”Herrera is very athletic,” Yost
said. ”As an organization we haven’t seen him that much. He can play
multiple positions. He can play all three positions in the outfield, can
play some third base. It will be interesting to get a look at him.”
Peralta,
a 17-game winner in 2014 with Milwaukee, signed with the Royals on
December 5 as a free agent, but in spring training allowed 14 runs on 16
hits, including four home runs, and eight walks over eight innings. He
began the year in the minors and posted a 4.37 ERA in 18 outings with
Omaha, but had a 1.96 ERA on his last nine outings.
”Our whole goal with (Brandon) Maurer and Peralta was to get them throwing good and get them back here. That has been the case Dave Robinson Jersey ,” Yost said.
WASHINGTON
— Red-hot Mark Reynolds and the Washington Nationals will go for the
sweep in the finale of their four-game series against the Miami Marlins
on Sunday.
Reynolds followed up his dramatic walk-off
homer Friday night with two homers and a career-high 10 RBIs Saturday
night as the Nationals demolished the Marlins 18-4.
In
five at-bats, Reynolds homered, doubled, singled, homered and singled to
tie his career high for hits along with the Nationals’ RBI mark.
“Yeah
that’s like a good two weeks,” Reynolds said. “I mean like my last hit a
guy dove and it went off his glove and went into left field. You got a
little luck involved. Sometimes you just take a good swing the night
before and feel confident going into the next day and that’s what
happened.”
Since their team meeting following a July 4 loss to the Red Sox the Nationals (45-43) have won three straight, scoring 35 runs.
Manager
Dave Martinez should rest easy, but now has a pleasant problem: where
to put the righty Reynolds on Sunday when the Marlins pitch a
right-hander and his other two first base options are lefty hitters.
“I’ve
seen him like this, when he gets hot like this he can stay hot for a
while, so we’ll have to figure something out,” Martinez said.
The
Marlins got homers from Starlin Castro, J.T. Realmuto and Yadiel Rivera
against Max Scherzer in a game that was tied 3-3 going to the bottom of
the fifth before Washington pulled away for its 14th straight win over
Miami.
“We haven’t had any success with them in a while now Ryan Jensen Color Rush Jersey ,” manager Don Mattingly said. “They’re a good lineup up and down, but we’ve pitched better than this.”
Scherzer (11-5) picked up his first win since June 5. Washington had been shut out in three of his past five starts.
“I remember I said after Tampa the run support is going to be there,” he said. “These guys are too good.”
Miami rookie Trevor Richards (2-5, 5.26 ERA) opposes right-hander Tanner Roark (3-10, 4.60) in the finale.
Roark
is looking for his first win since June 6. Last time out he allowed
nine runs on 10 hits — including two home runs — over seven innings of a
loss to the Red Sox as he stayed in after a six-run fifth to save the
arms in a tired bullpen.
“That’s the best I’ve felt in a
long time,” Roark told MLB.com. “So other than two pitches, I feel like
they base-hit me to death. What are you going to do?”
Roark
is 5-8 with a 3.99 ERA in 22 games against the Marlins. Martin Prado is
10-for-23 against Roark and J.T. Realmuto is 10-for-26. Justin Bour is
5-for-29 but three of the hits were home runs.
Richards,
who will make his first start against Washington, allowed four runs on
nine hits with no walks across five innings in a no-decision Tuesday
against the Rays. He struck out five. He is 2-3 with a 5.52 ERA since
being recalled from Triple-A New Orleans on June 7.
