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KANSAS CITY Josh Donaldson Jersey , Mo. (AP) — A little break in the action did Javier Baez some good.Baez bounced back from a couple of strikeouts with a big home run, Cole Hamels pitched six strong innings and the Chicago Cubs beat the Kansas City Royals 3-1 on Monday night.Baez has homered in back-to-back games for the fifth time this season and has six in his past 10 games with 14 RBIs.He struck out swinging in his first two at-bats before a 22-minute rain delay in the fourth.“I was so mad,” Baez said. “Not that I struck out, but it was pitches way out of the zone. After the rain delay I went out there with a different attitude and just trying to be patient. The first AB I was, like, damn, it’s my first time here and they’re yelling for me. I was really nervous and really happy.”Baez hit the first pitch from reliever Kevin McCarthy (4-4) in the sixth inning to center for his 25th home run, putting the Cubs ahead 2-1.“It was just a bad pitch,” McCarthy said. “It was down the middle and he got it. He’s just hot right now. He’s seeing the ball well and he got that one.”Baez doubled in the eighth to score Jason Heyward, upping his RBI total to an NL-leading 88.“He’s just a dangerous, dangerous hitter,” Royals manager Ned Yost said. “He’s going to attack. You don’t have to throw him strikes. He struck out the first two times with pitches way out of the zone. But he’s got 25 homers, so there are enough mistakes being made. But you make a pitch that’s not way out of the zone, he’s so talented and so strong, he’ll drive it out of the ball park.”Hamels (7-9) is 2-0 since the Cubs acquired him in a July 27 trade with the Texas Rangers. He allowed one run and seven hits.“I’ve faced these guys twice before this season,” Hamels said. “Pretty familiar with what they’re able to hit, what they’re not able to hit. I think noticing the curveball being pretty effective we’d like to stick with that and I think that was the case.”Alcides Escobar’s two-out second-inning single scored Rosell Herrera for the first earned run Hamels allowed at Kauffman Stadium in four career starts, covering 21 2/3 innings.Royals starter Jakob Junis worked out of a bases-loaded http://www.bluejaysfanproshop.com/authentic-curtis-granderson-jersey , one-out jam in the fifth. Ben Zobrist and Heyward hit ground ball outs to end the inning.The Royals loaded the bases with two outs in the bottom of the inning, but Hamels retired Hunter Dozier on a grounder to first baseman Anthony Rizzo on a full-count pitch.Junis was removed after five innings and 87 pitches, allowing one run and five hits while striking out eight, one shy of his career high.Zobrist led off the fourth with a triple and scored on Junis’ wild pitch.Cubs relievers Steve Cishek, Brandon Kintzler and Pedro Strop limited the Royals to one single over the final three innings. Strop earned his eighth save in 11 chances, working a spotless ninth.The Royals have lost five straight and are tied with the Baltimore Orioles for the worst record in the majors at 34-78.ZOBRIST RETURNSZobrist, who hit .303 with two home runs in 16 postseason games for the Royals in 2015, was back in Kansas City for the first time since the club won the World Series. He received a standing ovation before his first at-bat.ROYALS LONG TRIPThe Royals were home for the first time since July 25, after a 3-7, three-city, 11-day trip to New York, Chicago and Minnesota. It included a rainout in New York, which was made up with a day-night doubleheader, plus two rain delays in Minnesota. “It seemed like it was a year,” Royals manager Ned Yost said.TRAINER’S ROOMCubs: 3B Kris Bryant (left shoulder inflammation) threw before the game for the first since going on the disabled list on July 24. “It was good to get him out there doing some baseball stuff. It was good for him and for his head, too,” Cubs manager Joe Maddon said. “There’s no regress, but there’s no finish lines attached.” … RHPs Brandon Morrow (right biceps inflammation) and Yu Darvish (right triceps tendinitis) played catch before the game. Darvish is scheduled to throw another bullpen session Wednesday.Royals: OF Brian Goodwin (left groin strain) took batting practice. He is eligible to come off the disabled list Wednesday.UP NEXTCubs: LHP Mike Montgomery J.A. Happ Jersey , who was a 2008 Royals’ first-round pick, starts the middle game of the series.Royals: Rookie RHP Brad Keller is 3-3 with a 3.90 ERA in 11 starts since moving into the rotation on May 30. The Dodgers have received little help from their bullpen this series and find themselves one game away from season’s end. They place their hopes in Clayton Kershaw once again."LOS ANGELES — The sting of defeat is a poison the Dodgers have tasted three times this World Series. Another catastrophic undoing of their bullpen Saturday brings the Fall Classic one Red Sox victory from reaching its end.It hasn’t mattered what move manager Dave Roberts has made, the bullpen has betrayed him. His relievers have hemorrhaged 13 of the 23 runs Boston has scored in this series and have had their stamp on 19.The Dodgers were eight outs away from a brand new best-of-three scenario when Roberts called on Scott Alexander as first man out. Having played 18 innings less than 24 hours earlier, the bullpen wasn’t fully stocked. Pedro Baez and Julio Urias — the Dodgers best relievers in this series — were both unavailable after appearing in each of the first three games,Alexander walked the only batter he faced, leaving another situation for Ryan Madson with multiple runners on for the third time in four games. Much like the previous two, Madson allowed the runners he inherited to score — a perfect 7-for-7 in total.With a four-run lead and limited options, Roberts placed his trust in the 38-year-old to get the final two outs of the inning. Mitch Moreland ruined whatever plans were set in motion, crushing a changeup into the seats in right for a three-run homer.“You’ve got Ryan, who has a very good track record of getting righties and lefties out, and actually left-handers considerably more, and we just didn’t execute,” Roberts said. “Moreland hit a changeup first pitch that was up, and he got the prior hitter to pop up to the catcher, and he made a bad pitch and unfortunately Mitch took a really good swing on it.”Given the fact that the top of the order was coming to plate in the eighth for Boston, the Dodgers turned to Kenley Jansen after pitching two innings in Friday’s marathon. Playing out like it did Friday — the whole reason for the strained bullpen — the big man gave up a solo homer to tie the game.It was the first time one reliever gave up game-tying homers on back-to-back nights in the World Series since 2001 — the only other time it happened.Even then, the Dodgers still had a chance to win the game. But when they failed to score in the home half of the eighth, Boston steamrolled what was left of the Dodger bullpen Kendrys Morales Jersey , scoring five times in the ninth.The performance was historically bad.A night after Max Muncy saved their season, the Dodgers are down three games to one to the best team in baseball this year. The bullpen — the strength of the first two rounds of the postseason — has brought them to this point.— —The Dodgers have no choice but to win Sunday or they will watch their opponent celebrate on their field for the second straight year. Clayton Kershaw gets the ball Sunday with the hopes of sending the series back to Boston. It will be the lefty’s sixth career start when his team is facing elimination. In the previous five, the Dodgers have won two while Kershaw has given up 21 runs (20 earned) in 28 2鈦? innings (6.28 ERA).The environment will be a lot different than the Game 1 start that saw Kershaw allow seven hits and three walks, ending his night in the fifth inning with five runs charged to his tally. The weather won’t be a factor this time around.Game 5 will be another chance for one of the greatest pitchers in baseball history to pitch well when his team needs it most. Does that matter to him?“Very little,” Kershaw said. “I don’t really care about legacy. I don’t really care what people think of me or perceive of me. Game 5 is a very important game to win the World Series, and I’m looking forward to pitching that game and hopefully putting us in a great spot going back to Boston.” “And that’s really all I care about. All that other stuff, people are going to have their opinions, you know, and that’s fine. I’m not here to change them. I’m here to pitch. And all that other stuff will take care of itself.”The Dodgers are as confident as they can be behind their long-time ace, as if they had any other choice.“He’s Clayton Kershaw. He’s the best pitcher in the game,” said third baseman Justin Turner “He’s going to go out there and he’s going to empty the tank for us tomorrow and give us the best chance we have to extend this thing.”The odds the Dodgers win the next three games are a long shot. Boston has proved how good they are over the last six months and are one game away from their goal.“Obviously, the 108 wins speaks for itself in the regular season,” Roberts said of the challenge ahead. “They’re very balanced. They pitch well. They put together good at-bats. They play defense. But, you know, we’ve still got to play. And we’re not out yet. We’ve got to go out there and still, yeah, respect what they’ve done but our guys aren’t done.” “We’ve got our best going tomorrow and we’re expecting to win a baseball game.”