KANSAS CITY: After enduring the embarrassment of failing to go deep in the Home Run Derby, and the near-constant jeering from fans of the Kansas City Royals, Robinson Cano finally hit one into the seats at Kauffman Stadium yesterday.
It proved to be important, too. The two-run shot by the Yankees second baseman gave his team the lead in the third inning, and that was just about all the offense Hiroki Kuroda needed on the mound. He pitched into the eighth inning as New York beat Kansas City 4-2 to finish off a three-game sweep. Cano, of course, was captain of the AL squad for last year’s derby in Kansas City, and had said he would choose the Royals’ Billy Butler for his team. But he went back on his word. Agencies
