CHICAGO -- The Chicago Cubs placed infielder Luis Valbuena on the 15-day disabled list on Sunday because he strained a muscle on his right side. Chicago recalled infielder Logan Watkins from Triple-A Iowa to take his place. He was in the lineup at second base and batting seventh against the Dodgers on Sunday for his major league debut. Watkins was the Cubs 2012 minor league player of the year after batting .281 with 93 runs scored and nine home runs for Double-A Tennessee. He was added to the 40-man roster in November, and he was hitting .243 with eight home runs in 107 games at Triple-A. "Thats a big part of my game, drawing walks," said Watkins, who has a career on-base percentage of .365 in the minors. "This is the first year Ive ever hit leadoff in Triple-A. Ive always been the two-hole hitter. I was learning a lot. It was a good year for me as far as learning a lot and getting better." With the addition of Watkins, second baseman Darwin Barney can occasionally move to shortstop and give Starlin Castro a day off, manager Dale Sveum said. Valbuena was batting .225 with nine home runs in 89 games for the Cubs. He aggravated an injury Friday in the Cubs 6-2 loss to the Dodgers. "He did it four or five days ago, felt it and then when he pinch hit the other night, he got it pretty good," Sveum said. Cheap Fake Yeezys . -- Most satisfying to Russ Smith about No. Fake Yeezys Shoes . Duchene scored two goals and had an assist, helping the Colorado Avalanche beat the Carolina Hurricanes 4-2 on Friday night to match the best 10-game start in team history. http://www.fakeyeezychina.com/ . The International Olympic Committee released the official list of bid cities on Friday after the deadline for applications had passed. The candidates -- all previously announced in their own countries -- are: Almaty, Kazakhstan; Beijing; Krakow, Poland; Lviv, Ukraine; Oslo, Norway; and Stockholm. Fake Yeezys China . That left plenty of energy for pitching books and swatting away free agency questions. Anthony had 24 points and nine rebounds, and the Knicks avenged an embarrassing home loss with a rout of their own, beating the Boston Celtics 114-88 on Wednesday night for their third straight victory. Fake Yeezys Shoes . Having already announced that the race will start May 9 with three stages in Northern Ireland and Ireland and finish in Trieste on June 1, the rest of the route was unveiled Monday. TORONTO -- The Kansas City Royals record on the road has been unbecoming of a reigning World Series champion.After losing 6-2 to the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday night, the Royals dropped to 16-28 on the road this season.Theyll try to begin reversing that trend in Tuesdays game against the Blue Jays, the second of a three-game series at the Rogers Centre.The difference in their home and away records is as glaring example as any of their inconsistency this season; at Kauffman Stadium, they are 27-11.Injuries have been part of the problem for the Royals. They entered their rematch of the 2015 American League Championship Series participants without such players as Lorenzo Cain (left hamstring strain) and Mike Moustakas (torn ACL).Of course, the Blue Jays have been without one of their key players in Jose Bautista (turf toe).Im not going to use injuries as an excuse, Royals manager Ned Yost said. Weve been inconsistent at times offensively. When we got our pitching and hitting together, thats when we have gone on runs. But then weve had inconsistency, too, with our starting pitching. Its a lot of things.The Royals will start right-hander Chris Young on Tuesday.Young has been consistent this season in that he has allowed at least one home run in each of his 12 starts, for a total of a major league leading 22. The club record is held by Runelvys Hernandez, who allowed homers in 13 straight starts Oct. 2, 2005-Aug. 10, 2006.The ball could be flying in Tuesdays contest.The Blue Jays will be starting knuckleballer R.A. Dickey, who has allowed 19 homers this season.ddddddddddddt is a rematch of the Game 4 starters in the ALCS. That one did not go well for Dickey. He allowed four hits (including two home runs), two walks, and five runs (four earned) in 1 2/3 innings. The Royals won 14-2.Young did not pitch far enough into that game to get the win. He allowed three hits, two walks and two runs in 4 2/3 innings.Young is 2-1 with a 4.98 ERA in four regular-season starts against the Blue Jays.Dickey is 4-3 with a 4.20 ERA in 14 regular-season games against the Royals, including four starts.Dickey could have redemption in mind when he faces the Royals, but both teams have underachieved in the first half of the season, so they will take any wins they can get to stay in contention.There was some nastiness between the teams last year in a four game series in which the Blue Jays took three games at Rogers Centre.Both managers have played down suggestions that this fuels a rivalry.The Blue Jays, however, are quite aware that the Royals kept them from a chance at the World Series.More than anything this is the defending World Series champs, Blue Jays center fielder Kevin Pillar said. Naturally you want to elevate your game for that.This is the team that knocked us out of the postseason, took everything that we worked extremely hard for away from us. We had some altercations with them, some incidents with them so, yeah, its formed a little bit of a rivalry. ' ' '