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Month: July 2012

Smyly Strikes Out 10 in Tigers Win Over Royals

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Kansas City Royals’ Brayan Pena is greeted in the dugout after scoring in the fifth inning on teammate Jason Bourgeois’ single during a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers in Detroit, Friday, July 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

DETROIT  — In a lost year for Jonathan Sanchez, even a small improvement is something to hold on to.

Sanchez failed to end his 10-game winless streak Friday night in a 4-2 loss to the Detroit Tigers, but even four runs in 5 2/3 innings was better than what he has done lately. In his previous two starts, he allowed 12 runs on 14 hits and 12 walks in 10 innings.

“He was definitely better,” Royals manager Ned Yost said. “His strike ratio was better and his command was better. He just made two mistakes — one was a two-run triple and one was a two-run homer.”

Sanchez acknowledged that he made progress, but was far from content.

“The results are still not good enough,” he said. “Today was better, yes, but I have to do more in the second half of the season. I just have to do better.”

The Royals couldn’t do much with Tigers rookie Drew Smyly, who struck out a career-high 10 batters in six innings. Nine of the strikeouts came in the first four innings.

“You just can’t see much here in the first four innings,” Yost said. “That’s not an excuse — we have a pitcher out there who can take advantage of it as well, but it is really tough for hitters.”

The win got the Tigers (42-42) back to .500 for the first time since May 15. They had failed the last eight times when needing one win to reach the mark.

Smyly (4-3) allowed two runs on six hits. He didn’t walk a batter. Four Detroit relievers finished, with Jose Valverde pitching the ninth for his 16th save in 19 tries.

“Tonight was exceptional, because he’s not an overpowering pitcher,” Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. “But he’s got a good feel for pitching, and I like him a lot. I think he has a chance to be an outstanding pitcher in two or three years, and some people don’t think it will take that long.”

The Tigers broke the scoreless tie in the third, when Ramon Santiago and Austin Jackson singled before coming home on Quintin Berry’s fourth triple.

Smyly only allowed one hit through four innings, but the Royals tied it in the fifth. With one out, Mike Moustakas bounced a ground-rule double over the 420-foot sign in center field, and Smyly seemed in pain after the pitch. He was checked by trainer Kevin Rand, but stayed in the game.

“On that pitch, I just tweaked my side,” he said. “I just needed to stretch it out a bit.”

The next batter lined out, but Brayan Pena made it 2-1 with a double and Jason Bourgeois tied the game with a run-scoring single. The Royals put runners on second and third in the sixth. Smyly got Moustakas to end the inning.

In the bottom of the inning, Delmon Young hit a 3-1 pitch deep over the bullpens in left for his eighth homer — his second in two days — and a 4-2 Detroit lead.

NOTES: Smyly was the first Tigers rookie to reach double figures in strikeouts since Mark Leiter had 10 in 1991, and the first to do it without a walk since Eric Erickson in 1918. … Sanchez walked three batters, giving him 15 in his last three starts. … The Tigers are 67-47 against Kansas City since Jim Leyland took over in 2006.

– Associated Press –

One Injured In I-70 Rollover Accident

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A Kinsley woman was injured in a single vehicle accident along I-70 in Lincoln County, 17 miles west of Salina, Friday evening.

According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 16-year-old Joseph Rennaker from Kinsley was driving a car west on I-70. For an unknown reason he veered off the road, and into the median. Rennaker then overcorrected, traveled back across the westbound lanes and into the north ditch. The car overturned and came to rest on its wheels.

A passenger, 37-year-old Traci Daubert of Kinsley, was transported to Salina Regional Health Center with injuries. Her condition was not immediately known.

Rennaker was not injured.

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No Firework Citations Issued in Hays

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When the City of Hays decided to ban the sale and use of fireworks in Hays, after they had already been on sale, the Hays Police Department thought that they would see a lot of illegal use of fireworks. Instead they found that the people of Hays, for the most part, obeyed the ban.

Lt. Brandon Wright with the Hays Police Department said that there were no citations issued and the Hays PD has issued just one warning since the ban went in effect. Wright said the warning was issued to the renter of a property that was hosting a party because they were unable to determine who was lighting the fireworks.

Wright also said that the majority of the calls they received were people asking questions after the ban was already in place.

Hays Police Department Respond to 23 Calls on Thursday

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The Hays Police Department performed 19 traffic stops and responded to  four animal calls on Thursday. According to the police activity log the Hays Police Department responded to an unattended death in the 1100 block of Fairway drive at 11:10 am on Thursday. Lt. Brandon Wright with the Hays Police Department said that the death was an elderly person and that there was no suspicious activity.

The Hays PD also investigated two incidents of criminal damage to property. The first was reported on Thursday and happened sometime between Monday afternoon and Thursday afternoon, in the 200 block of East 21st. There was also a report of suspicious activity with this incident. The Police department also reported criminal damage to property in the 3700 block of Thunderbird Drive on Thursday.

Officials responded to a motor vehicle accident at the Hays Showplex Cinema parking lot on Thursday as well.

Authorities Arrest Four in Connection With Western Kansas Pharmacy Burglaries

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Authorities investigating a string of burglaries at pharmacies in southwestern Kansas and northwest Oklahoma say they may have a break in the case.

KAKE-TV reports the Hodgeman County sheriff’s department arrested four people this week following reports of suspicious activity near a pharmacy in Jetmore, about 20 miles north of Dodge City.

Officials said the suspects are from the Dodge City area, and are in their mid-20s to early 30s. Two were arrested after a traffic stop and another while running from the scene. The fourth suspect was arrested when he tried to contact the others after they were taken into custody.

Investigators believe the thieves are responsible for at least 19 burglaries since January in which painkillers were stolen from pharmacies and sold on the street.

Running Of The Bulls… Would You Do It?

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Tens of thousands of revelers showered each other with sparkling wine and waved red kerchiefs Friday as the blast of a small rocket signaled the start of this year’s running of the bulls.

Spain’s most famous summer festival kicked off in the jam-packed and cobblestoned main square of the northern town of Pamplona. People from around the world, many wearing the traditional red kerchief and white shirt and pants, roared their approval as an official on a city hall balcony declared the San Fermin festival under way. He then lit the rocket, its boom echoing through the plaza.

Revelers sprayed each other with white wine, water and other liquids, and pelted each other with flour, making for a pasty but merry mess. Huge plastic balls used to advertise products and services bounced atop the crowd.

“It looked like a giant food fight,” said Andrea Smith, 33, a member of the U.S. military stationed in Italy. A native of Coxsackie, New York, she had come to Pamplona on leave just to watch all the fun — not to test her luck with the 500-plus kilogram (1,100-pound) beasts that are the stars of the show.

Lindsay Erdall, a 25-year-old nurse from Montana, called the opening party “the craziest thing I have ever seen.”

“I have been here for the setup, and now that it has started it is amazing. Not sure I will run because it is way too crowded,” she said.

The first of eight runs in which daredevils dash through the streets with six powerful fighting bulls begins Saturday.

The bulls thunder along with six bell-tinkling steers meant to keep the bulls running in a pack, with the goal of making the run safer. An isolated bull can get spooked and disoriented, becoming much more likely to charge at people.

Since record keeping began in 1924, 15 people have been killed by bulls in the early morning festival runs. The most recent such tragedy came in 2009 when a young Spaniard was gored in the neck as he tried to escape a bull by sliding feet-first under a fence separating the course from the crowd watching the run. It was the first death at San Fermin in nearly 15 years.

The party honoring San Fermin, the patron saint of Pamplona, was immortalized in Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Sun Also Rises.”

Wild Bill Hickok Deals Faro in Hays

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Wild Bill Hickok is in Hays for the Wild West Festival.

Well, OK, not the ORIGINAL Wild Bill.

This is actually historical re-enactor Dave Wood from Fort Morgan, Colorado.  He portrays the legendary lawman, who was elected sheriff of Ellis County in 1869.

You can meet Hickok/Wood Friday and Saturday as he deals cards at the  saloon in the Ellis County Historical Society Museum.

Special programs will be made Saturday at 1p.m. and 3p.m. in the 1879 Stone Church adjacent to the main museum building.

Fireworks Claim Multiple Homes In Kansas

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The toll from fires blamed on Fourth of July fireworks is adding up around Kansas.

In Hutchinson, authorities estimate the damage at $600,000 from a fire that left a home in ruins and killed a couple’s two dogs. Investigators say Thursday’s pre-dawn blaze apparently began when fireworks landed on the roof from somewhere in the neighborhood.

Fireworks are also suspected in several house fires in the Wichita area.

Even spent fireworks can spark a blaze. WIBW-TV reports a house in Emporia went up in flames Thursday when two children put a couple of spent sparklers in the ground. The sparklers ignited dry grass under the front porch, starting a fire that spread quickly. No one was injured.

City Discusses 2013 Budget

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The proposed 2013 budget for the City of Hays is very similar to previous years, according to City Manager Toby Dougherty.

Dougherty ran through the budget with the commission Thursday night. Some of the expenditures include a pay and benefit study and a reconfiguration of the public works building. The number of employees will not increase and the mill levy would stay at 25.

The commission will discuss the budget again on the 19th and that is when they will decide the allocations for the outside agencies.

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