Greinke and Pena lead Royals past Jays

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07/21/2010 - Kansas City, MO (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Zack Greinke allowed two runs and struck out nine in eight strong innings, leading the Kansas City Royals to a 5-2 win over the Toronto Blue Jays in the rubber match of a three-game series.

Greinke (6-9) scattered six hits in the outing and did not walk a batter, as the Royals won for the seventh time in their last eight series tiebreaking games. Brayan Pena recorded a career-high three hits and an RBI, as five different players scored a run in the win.

Joakim Soria notched his AL-leading 26th save of the season.

Vernon Wells had three hits and scored once for the Blue Jays, who fell to 0-5-2 in their last seven series in Kansas City. Lyle Overbay and John McDonald each drove in a run in defeat.

Mark Rzepczynski (0-1) allowed five runs on nine hits in 4 2/3 innings in a spot start to receive the loss.

Soria came on to finish the game in the ninth -- holding a three-run lead -- but ran into some trouble.

Wells singled with one away and moved to third when Adam Lind reached on an error. Soria, though, recovered to strike out Aaron Hill before inducing a weak groundout from Overbay to end the game.

McDonald's RBI double in the third put Toronto ahead, but Kansas City scored twice in the home half to move in front for good

Yuniesky Betancourt led off the inning with a triple to right and Willie Bloomquist singled on the next pitch to tie the game. Bloomquist moved to second on a Mike Aviles single and to third on a Wilson Betemit walk before Jose Guillen's sacrifice fly made it 2-1.

Three more runs by the Royals' offense in the fifth helped build a four-run lead.

Aviles tripled and scored on Billy Butler's double to start the inning, and Butler moved up to third on a wild pitch with one away. Guillen's double plated Butler, and Pena's RBI base hit off Casey Janssen extended the margin to 5-1.

Greinke retired 10 straight batters from the end of the third through the end of the sixth, a streak that ended when Wells singled to begin the seventh. Hill sent Wells to second with a base hit, and Overbay cut Toronto's deficit to three with a run-scoring single.

Edwin Encarnacion, however, grounded into an inning-ending double play to thwart the rally.

Game Notes

The Blue Jays fell to 4-2 on a 10-game road trip...The teams split the season series, 3-3...The Jays failed to homer, snapping a streak of going deep in 13 straight games, a season-high...Toronto shortstop Yunel Escobar (hand) did not play.

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