KANSAS CITY -- Four straight quality starts certainly would have been a great way for right-hander Ian Kennedy to close out his 2018 season.
And Kennedy appeared on his way Friday night against the Indians at Kauffman Stadium. Kennedy stifled the Indians on three hits and one run through six innings. But in the seventh, Kennedy gave up three straight hits, and all three runners scored, tainting his line in an eventual 14-6 loss.
The loss snapped the Royals' four-game winning streak.
Still Kennedy, who missed two months because of a strained oblique, came back strong from that injury in September, giving up just four runs over his previous three starts, two of them wins.