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Alcides Escobar (Spanish: [alˈsiðes eskoˈβaɾ]) (born December 16, 1986) is a Venezuelan professional baseball infielder who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Milwaukee Brewers , Kansas City Royals and Washington Nationals , and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows .
2015: Salvador Pérez, Eric Hosmer, and Alcides Escobar; 2016: Salvador Pérez; 2017: Alex Gordon; 2018: Alex Gordon and Salvador Pérez; 2019: Alex Gordon; 2020: Alex Gordon (Gordon-Rawlings Platinum Gold Glove Award Winner) 2021: Andrew Benintendi and Michael A. Taylor; 2024: Seth Lugo and Bobby Witt Jr.
The former Royals shortstop made two pitching appearances for the Nationals.
Former general manager Dayton Moore (from left), Lorenzo Cain, Eric Hosmer, Alcides Escobar and other members of the Kansas City Royals’ 2014 American League championship team were honored at ...
Terrance Gore came in to pinch-run for Infante and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt after Zach Britton relieved O'Day, and the speedy runner scored easily on Alcides Escobar's double. After Jarrod Dyson reached on an error, Lorenzo Cain's single made it 6-4 Royals. Greg Holland threw a scoreless bottom of the ninth for his second save of the ...
In the bottom of the 7th, Will Harris relieved Fields, but surrendered an immediate triple to Alcides Escobar. Zobrist then drove in Escobar with an RBI single to give Kansas City the 5–4 lead. That was all the vaunted Royals bullpen needed as Ryan Madson and Wade Davis pitched scoreless 8th and 9th innings respectively to even the series. [18]
On October 27, 2015, Alcides Escobar of the Kansas City Royals hit an inside-the-park home run in Game 1 of the 2015 World Series. It was the first in a World Series game since Mule Haas in the 1929 World Series [2] [3] and the first hit by a leadoff batter since Patsy Dougherty did it for the Boston Americans (now Red Sox) in 1903. [23]
The 2015 American League Championship Series (ALCS) was a best-of-seven playoff in Major League Baseball's 2015 postseason contested between the second-seeded Toronto Blue Jays and the top-seeded Kansas City Royals for the American League (AL) pennant and the right to play in the 2015 World Series.