After giving up a first inning run, Kenny Rogers settled down and pitched six more innings without yielding another run on the scoreboard. He improved his ERA to an AL-best 1.69. "He never pitches according to the score. He's trying to put a shutout inning up there and get us back in the dugout," manager Buck Showalter said. "He didn't have his great stuff. He went more with his fastball because his changeup wasn't that sharp," catcher Sandy Alomar said. "But he got people out. He just creates stuff. He mixed it up. He knows how to survive."