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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. Moustakas homer to right on a 3-2 pitch broke the game open. 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. Kevin Mchale Jersey . Sopoaga hit the upright with his first shot at goal from 15 metres. 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Gasquet next plays third-seeded Jerzy Janowicz of Poland, who won had 18 aces in a 6-2, 6-4 win against seventh-seeded Edouard Roger-Vasselin of France.Got a question on rule clarification, comments on rule enforcements or some memorable NHL stories? Kerry wants to answer your emails at cmonref@tsn.ca. Hey Kerry, In the Canucks/Predators game on Tuesday, a shot hit the post behind Eddie Lack midway through the first period. The referees were unsure whether it was a good goal or not. The play continued down into the Predators zone. The referee, however, only blew the whistle so that he could attend a video review once the puck was back in the neutral zone. My question is: Why does the referee not wait until a natural stoppage in play occurs and then attend to his video review? I understand waiting until the puck is in the neutral zone with neither team having an advantage, but why seek video replay at the next available whistle? Surely, any subsequent goals would be erased. Is this to prevent injuries? Thank you, Tariq Teja Tariq: The normal procedure is, as you suggest, for the officials to wait until the first natural stoppage of play if the referee is unsure that the puck entered the net. This is also the process as spelled out in rule 38.2 when the Video Goal Judge observes an incident involving a potential goal that was undetected by the on-ice officials. In that situation the horn is blown at the first stoppage of play and a formal review is instituted. If video review confirms that a goal had been scored we know that the clock (and penalty clock if applicable) is reset to the time the goal was scored. No subsequent goal can be scored during that dead time when play was allowed to continue but any penalties are assessed in the normal manner. None of this process precludes the referee from blowing his whistle to stop play if he has a reasonable suspicion that the puck may have entered the net. No different than hockey players, referees develop and rely on their instinct in the fast-paced game they are called upon to officiate. Things happen very quickly and the referees initial perception that the puck may have hit the post must have changed as play continued for him to blow his whistle. Player reaction can sometimes provide additional information for the referee as he replays the incident through his minds eye. Once the referee concludes that the puck did perhaps enter the net he would much prefer to shut the play down and get video confirmation prior to having to call a minor penalty or worse. Needless injury could also be avoided for all participants once play was stopped and video confirmation was providedd regardless of the outcome.dddddddddddd As play continued and the puck entered the neutral zone in Smashville on Tuesday night I would suspect that the referee had more than reasonable suspicion that his initial take was inaccurate and subsequently deduced that the puck had in fact entered the net. Additional information might have also been shared by the closest linesman as play moved into the neutral zone to support this thought process. Many times, especially during the one referee system, I asked a linesman for his perspective as I skated past him and chased the play. Stopping the play in this situation is certainly more of an exception than the rule. I dont believe for a second that the referee decided to make a safety call to stop the play and cover his butt. His decision to shut the play down in the neutral zone resulted from fact gathering and hindsight to confirm the scoring of a goal in that moment. I have no problem with the referees decision in this circumstance. Tariq, you touch on something here that I have continually thought about since the Bruins-Blue Jackets game on December 27. With approximately two minutes remaining in the second period the puck struck the spectator netting and was undetected by the officials. Play continued for an extended period until the next stoppage of play occurred with the scoring of a Columbus goal. Video review was provided expanded discretion this season under rule 38.4 (viii) that specifically deals with this situation. We found out that if the goal scored had been immediate (whatever their definition entails) after striking the netting it could have been disallowed. Even though rule 85.1 (pre-existing rule) provides for play to continue in this situation, how much better would the game be served if the horn blown was blown to shut down play once video review confirmed the puck had left the playing surface? This information became available to all of us very quickly through the broadcast feeds. Perhaps once this season ends, some consideration will be given to apply expanded Video Goal Judge discretion and allow for an immediate press of the horn once they confirm the puck has struck the spectator netting. The referee in the Canucks-Predators game on Tuesday night didnt have the benefit of accurate confirmation when he stopped play. Instead, through his instinct he determined it more reasonable to kill the play than allow it to continue when the puck was in a no-harm-no-foul position in the neutral zone. 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