Some extras from an eventful night in Kansas City:
Kurt Suzuki was having a great night, until he thought he was having one of the worst ever. But he's always been a survivor.
The Twins' catcher broke up Kris Medlen's no-hitter in the sixth inning, and did it in the best way possible: With a home run, his first in more than a month. "I was thinking, we've got to get some runs. It was 0-0 at the time," Suzuki said. "I faced [Medlen] a few times in my career when he was in Atlanta. Knowing what he has, I got a good pitch to hit and put the barrel on it."
It carried just to the left of the Royals' bullpen, his fifth of the season.
As the game went on, though, Suzuki's night got tougher. He threw a ball into center field for just his second error of the season, and first since April 9. And when the Royals' speedy pinch-hitters came on late in the game, they ran wild. Jarrod Dyson stole two bases, and Terrance Gore did two, a couple of them without a throw.
But the real scary play came in the 10th inning, when Lorenzo Cain bounced a one-hopper to Blaine Boyer as Dyson tore down the third-base line. Boyer looked at second, then turned to the plate and lobbed a high throw to Suzuki, who had to jump into the baseline to catch it.
He came down just as Dyson arrived, and the collision was abrupt and, it appeared, damaging. Suzuki's left knee buckled, and while the catcher held on to the ball for the game-saving out, he also rolled away in pain.
"The throw kind of took me into the runner. I didn't see the runner. He kind of slides into me as I'm tagging him," Suzuki said. "I guess that's a good thing. If he had slid around me, he probably would have been safe because it was a high throw. He slid into me and did me a favor, I guess."
