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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Dan Reichert stepped on the scales and
could hardly believe what he saw.
After pitching against Boston for almost two hours in
strength-sapping 100-degree heat, Kansas City's thin young
right-hander weighed exactly what he'd weighed before the game.
"I was amazed," said Reichert, who got the win in the
heat-soaked 11-7 victory Sunday. "I figured I must have lost seven
to eight pounds at least. But I was at 171½ before the
game, and I checked it after the game and it was 171½ right on the nose.
"I was drinking four to five cups of water between innings."
Dave McCarty and Jermaine Dye each hit two-run homers and
Reichert won his fourth straight decision as the Royals split their
four-game series.
The official temperature in downtown Kansas City in the sixth
inning was 102, while the thermometer at a hotel across from
Kauffman Stadium read 103.
"It wears on the players," said Kansas City manager Tony
Muser, who guessed that Reichert's weight had probably dropped to
about 155.
"Mark Quinn and Dye have been dragging. Some players
take it better than others."
Reichert (8-6) got his fourth win in five starts, giving up
three runs on six hits with five strikeouts and two walks in 5 2/3
innings.
Reichert has not lost since July 16, the date of Boston
knuckleballer Tim Wakefield's last victory.
Wakefield (6-9), who began the year 7-2 lifetime against Kansas
City, lost to the Royals for the second time this month and fell to
0-4 over his last eight starts.
He lasted five innings and was charged with nine runs -- seven
earned -- on eight hits, striking out five and walking three.
The Royals jumped on Wakefield for three runs in a second inning
that had Boston manager Jimy Williams yelling at home plate umpire
Pat Spieler.
After Wilson Delgado's bases-loaded RBI single, Jeff Reboulet
hit a tapper back to the mound. But Spieler ruled that McCarty was
safe coming in from third because catcher Scott Hatteberg's foot
was not on the plate when he took Wakefield's throw.
"I think it must have been a full sun day," Williams said
sarcastically. "He called it late. Hatte was out by the grass
trying to clear himself and go to first just to see if he had a
play."
The next batter, Johnny Damon, hit a sacrifice fly on what would
have been the third out if Hatteberg had been on the plate.
"If you want to factor that play in there, you know -- the next
guy hits the ball to left field and would have been the third
out," Williams said. "Ifs and buts, you know."
After Damon's sacrifice fly, Dye made it 5-0 with his two-run
homer in the third, his 31st.
In the fifth, Mike Sweeney hit an RBI single and later scored
from third on an unusual fielder's choice when Lou Merloni caught
Quinn's foul pop behind third base and threw to first in a futile
try for a double play.
McCarty hit Wakefield's next pitch for a two-run homer, his
11th, and a 9-1 lead.
Merloni had two sacrifice flies, then ignited a four-run eighth
inning against Chris Fussell with an RBI double.
Trot Nixon, who had an RBI single in the sixth, added a
sacrifice fly in the eighth before Mike Lansing's RBI single.
Boston cut it to 11-7 when Damon bobbled Jose Offerman's single to
center.
The Royals got two runs in the sixth on Dye's sacrifice fly and
Quinn's fielder's choice.
Game notes
Wakefield got three outs on just five pitches in the first
inning. ... The Red Sox have had big disputes with Spieler three
games in a row. On Friday night when he was working second, he
called Offerman out at second on a close play. Saturday night, the
Red Sox were furious when he called out Manny Alexander on a very
close play at first. ... Dye is five homers away from Steve
Balboni's club-record 36. ... Royals 3B Joe Randa sat out the game
after getting hit on the left forearm Saturday night.
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