IMOLA, Italy -- The crowd resembled the kind of gathering normally reserved for a Formula One podium celebration.
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members plus fellow and current drivers attended a solemn but also festive
memorial Thursday to mark the exact 20th anniversary of Ayrton Sennas death at
the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix. The ceremony was held on the Imola circuits
Tamburello curve where Senna crashed into a concrete wall at about 300 kph (185
mph). Austrian rookie Roland Ratzenberger, who died in qualifying a day before,
was also remembered. Among those in attendance were Gerhard Berger, Sennas
teammate with McLaren, and current Ferrari drivers Fernando Alonso and Kimi
Raikkonen. Berger says "I think we all agree that he was the best driver of all
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shooting too much.CLEVELAND -- Yordano Venturas dominating performance Friday
night produced plenty of superaltives. "He was extraordinary," Kansas City
manager Ned Yost said after the rookie right-hander pitched 8 1-3 stellar
innings in the Royals 7-1 win over the Cleveland Indians. Ventura (6-7) blanked
the Indians on four hits until Michael Brantley hit a leadoff homer in the
ninth. He was pulled after Jason Kipnis one-out single. Ventura allowed six hits
and struck out four in the longest outing of his career. Indians centre fielder
Michael Bourn had one of the hits off Ventura, a double in the eighth. "Well he
throws 100 (mph), first of all," Bourn said. "He has a good changeup and a good
curveball. We had a couple chances but for the most part he was on tonight."
Mike Moustakas, who hit a three-run homer in the sixth gave Kansas City a 5-0
lead, was also impressed with Ventura. "Hes got such electric stuff," Moustakas
said. "Thats what hes capable of doing." Salvador Perez and Christian Colon,
making his first major-league start, had three hits apiece while Lorenzo Cain
snapped an 0 for 11 skid with an RBI single in the third and a run-scoring
double in the fifth. The Royals, who are a major league-best 11-2 on the road
since June 2, rode Ventura to their latest win away from home. He retired the
first 10 hitters before Brantley singled with one out in the the fourth.
Carlos Santanas single moved Brantley to third, but Kipnis bounced into a double
play. Ventura entered the ninth with 103 pitches, making it an easy decision for
Yost to let him start the inning. "I wanted to throw the complete game shutout,
but I couldnt do it," Ventura said through teammate Bruce Chen, who translated
for the pitcher, "I was getting ahead of the hitters early in the game. They
made some really good plays behind me and that gave me a lot of energy."
Ventura, who finished with 113 pitches, came within two outs of recording Kansas
Citys first complete game of the season. "I wasnt going to take him past 120
pitches," Yost said. "After the home run it was like, OK the next guy who gets
on thats it. He pitched very well." Josh Tomlin (5-6), coming off a one-hit,
no-walk, 11-strikeout performance against Seattle, allowed five runs and 11 hits
in 5 2-3 innings. Mousstakas homer to right on a 3-2 pitch broke the game open.
Tom Barrasso Jersey. The rally began on singles by Perez and Alcides Escobar. Colon, a late addtion to the lineup when
second baseman Omar Infante was scratched with lower back tightness, was 3 for
4, including a triple in the second for his first major league hit. Colon added
a double in the fifth and an RBI double in the ninth. "That was a lot of fun,"
he said. "I was taking my ground balls (in pregame activities) and was told I
was going to play." Ventura has allowed three runs in 21 innings in three career
starts against Cleveland. He held the Indians to one run in seven innings in a
4-1 win on June 11 in Kansas City. Ventura gave up two runs and seven hits in
four innings Los Angeles Angels in his last start, an outing that was cut short
by a four-hour rain delay. He had pitched seven innings in each of his previous
three starts. The Royals, who are second in the AL Central, are 3-1 on a
nine-game road trip and lead third-place Cleveland by four games. The Indians,
who opened a 10-game homestand, have lost four straight at home after winning 11
of 12 at Progressive Field. Cleveland was swept by Detroit in a three-game
series June 20-22. Tomlin turned in the best performance of his career against
the Mariners last Saturday. He retired the first 12 hitters before allowing a
leadoff single to Kyle Seager in the fifth, Seattles only baserunner. Tomlins
gem marked the sixth time an Indians pitcher recorded 11 strikeouts with no
walks in a shutout over the past 100 years. It was also only the third time
since 2002 that a pitcher has recorded a one-hit shutout with at least 11
strikeouts and no walks. Kansas City left fielder Alex Gordon was hitless in
four at-bats and is in a 2-for-36 slump. Indians shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera was
0 for 4 and is in a 4 for 35 skid. NOTES: The Indians announced the game as a
sellout, their third of the season. ... Indians C Yan Gomes, a native of Brazil,
wore his countrys soccer jersey during batting practice. He kept an eye on the
scoreboard, which showed Brazils 2-1 win over Colombia in the World Cup. ...
Raul Ibanez, signed by the Royals on Monday, started in right field. He made an
awkward sliding catch on Gomes line drive in the fifth. ... Royals RHP
Jeremy Guthrie (5-6) faces LHP T.J. House (0-2) on Saturday.
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