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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Yordano Ventura was not at his best, but good enough to end a personal losing drought.Ventura pitched effectively into the seventh inning, Kendrys Morales hit a grand slam, and the Kansas City Royals beat the Toronto Blue Jays 7-1 Sunday.As far as stuff-wise and command, it obviously wasnt one of his best games, but his mental toughness was great, Royals catcher Drew Butera said. Thats what we need out of him. Somedays youre not going to have your best stuff. He came out and battled. He didnt get too flustered on the mound and stayed within himself.Ventura (7-9), who was 0-5 in seven starts since a June 17 victory over the Detroit Tigers, limited the Blue Jays to one run and five singles in 6 2/3 innings, walking four and striking out four.The Blue Jays had four hits and two walks in the first four innings, but wound up stranding eight men and went 0 for 4 with runners in scoring position.I was fighting the whole game, Ventura said with catching coach Pedro Grifol as his interpreter. I didnt feel comfortable with my mechanics early, but the goal was to keep us in the ball game until we could score some runs and we did.Morales third career grand slam and his first since July 30, 2012, while with the Los Angeles Angels came off left-hander Brett Cecil with two out in the eighth to break the game open. Raul Mondesi, Alcides Escobar and Cheslor Cuthbert led off the inning with singles. It appeared Toronto might escape unharmed after Lorenzo Cain and Eric Hosmer struck out, but Morales hit Cecils first pitch out to straight-away center.I went up to the plate with an aggressive mindset and he threw a fastball and I was able to make good hard contact, Morales said through a translator. It was a high fastball, mask high and I was able to catch it out front.Blue Jays right-hander Marcus Stroman (8-5) allowed three runs and seven hits in five innings. He threw 95 pitches before being replaced by Scott Feldman.Drew Butera and Mondesi delivered run-producing singles in the second. Butera cracked his bat on his hit to bring home Alex Gordon, while Mondesis bunt single scored Paulo Orlando, who logged his fourth straight multi-hit game.Theyre a dynamic team with their speed, Stroman said. They dont have to beat you with homers. Theyre looking to move the ball, move guys. Very fast and they put the ball in play.Escobar homered -- only his second of the season -- to lead off the fifth.Ventura was pulled after walking Darwin Barney and giving up a single to Devon Travis with two out in the seventh. Peter Moylan replaced Ventura and struck out Jose Bautista, but not before a wild pitch allowed Barney to score.Today was a little frustrating, Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. Its always tough to play here. Theyre world champs. Theyre that for a reason and they held us in check. We really havent been swinging that good since the beginning of the last homestand. Weve been in kind of a rut, so were due to explode.TRAINERS ROOMBlue Jays: CF Kevin Pillar jammed his left thumb sliding into second base Saturday and not in the lineup as a precaution.UP NEXTBlue Jays: RHP R.A. Dickey, who is second in the AL with 12 losses, will start against the Rays in the opener of a six-game homestand. 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After dropping their final six games of December, the Wild opened the new calendar year with four consecutive wins. Following a loss to Colorado on Saturday, Minnesota rebounded the following night to blank Nashville 4-0, but then had the tables turned on them Tuesday.ST. LOUIS -- A controversial 4-3 Cardinals?win could prove critical in the National League postseason race after umpires ruled that the Cincinnati Reds didnt declare their intention to challenge a call quickly enough at the conclusion of Thursday nights game.Yadier Molina doubled to left field with two outs and Matt Carpenter at first base in the bottom of the ninth inning at Busch Stadium. The ball caromed off an advertisement for the Missouri Lottery beyond the wall, and Carpenter raced home with the winning run.?However, the ball should have been ruled dead, forcing Carpenter to return to third. Cincinnati manager Bryan Price followed the umpires off the field and spoke with them in the tunnel, but according to the crew chief, the Reds call to review the play was too late and the winning run stood.?In this situation, Bryan Price did not come up on the top step [of the dugout],?crew chief Bill Miller told a pool reporter. We stayed there. I waited for my partners to come off the field. I looked into the dugout, the Cincinnati dugout, and Bryan Price made no eye contact with me whatsoever and then, after 30 seconds, he finally realized. Somebody must have told him what had happened, and we were walking off the field.Miller said none of the four umpires had an inkling the ball hit the sign, or they would have reviewed it themselves.Teams are supposed to demonstrate their intent to review a play within 10 seconds and make up their mind within 30 seconds, but on plays that end the game, that decision must be immediate, according to Replay Review Rule II D-3.Its a terrible rule, Price said. I mean, thats rridiculous.dddddddddddd.Price and staff didnt get the message fast enough from their video review crew.?Because of the crowd noise, we couldnt hear the phone ring, Price said. There was no siren or blinking light to let you know.As the Cardinals mobbed Molina between first and second base, several Reds players milled about on the field as if awaiting a replay review.I saw the Reds still on the field, but I didnt know what happened, so I came inside, and they were saying it was a ground-rule double, Molina said. I didnt know what happened at the moment.Reds left fielder Adam Duvall said the ball definitely hit the sign.I saw it. I heard it. Theres a gap in between the sign and the fence. I wasnt sure if it was in play or not, he said.Duvall retrieved the ball and made a relay home.Cardinals manager Mike Matheny, whose team trails the San Francisco Giants by one game for the final wild-card spot, acknowledged that the ground rules at Busch Stadium made that a dead ball.The Cardinals didnt stick around long to see if there would be a review.They celebrated on the field, and theres no reason to hang around, Matheny said.Carpenter was about halfway between second and third base when the ball hit the padded sign, so he would have been ordered back to third had umpires realized it was a dead ball.When the balls hit, Im running as hard as I can. I never looked or saw where it was, Carpenter said. Im picking up the third-base coach and got the wave, and thats a fun way to win a game. ' ' '