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With a little luck, Singer, ranked by MLB Pipeline as the Royals’ No. 2 prospect, could have thrown five shutout innings.\n\nSinger showed the same type of command and stuff he displayed in Spring Training and Summer Camp -- well-placed sinkers on the corners and a biting slider that made some hitters chase.\n\n“There were obviously a few butterflies,” Singer said via a Zoom call. “But I just let the first pitch go as hard as I could. I just went to the scouting report and went from there.”
• Zimmer vs. Zimmer matchup on the horizon
Singer’s parents came to Cleveland from Florida, but had to watch the game from the hotel.\n\n“It was still great knowing there were here,” Singer said.\n\nThe Royals broke a 2-2 tie in the 10th inning. Under the new extra-inning rules, the Royals began the inning with an automatic runner at second base. Pinch-hitter
Singer was mostly on cruise control. He ran into some trouble in the third inning, when he stopped getting calls on the corners and some ground balls found holes.\n\nSinger threw a 1-1 changeup to Bradley Zimmer with one out that fooled Zimmer and looked like it was on the outside corner. Instead, Zimmer got ahead in the count 2-1 and yanked the next pitch, a slider, on the ground into right field for a single.\n\nCésar Hernández then pulled an 0-1 four-seamer into right field for a single, putting runners on first and third.\n\nJosé Ramírez followed by pulling a first-pitch slider on the ground into right field, just past diving second baseman
Singer threw 80 pitches, 49 for strikes\n\nThe Royals took a 2-0 lead in the first inning.
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