Kansas City Royals at Miami Marlins

· Major League Baseball

Kansas City Royals

48-52, 24-26 Away

Final
7 - 4

Miami Marlins

46-52, 22-28 Home

Bubic pitches 5 scoreless innings, Perez homers to help the Royals beat the Marlins

Jesus Sanchez makes stellar diving catch for Marlins

Bubic (8-6) gave up three hits and a walk. Andrew Hoffmann came on in the ninth and gave up four runs — none earned — in two-thirds of an inning before Carlos Estévez got the final out for his 26th save.

Perez hit his 15th homer of the season in the eighth.

Kansas City took a 3-0 lead in the fourth, and made it 6-0 in the fifth.

In the fourth, Bobby Witt Jr. scored on Maikel Garcia's sacrifice fly, Perez hit a ground-rule double and Jac Caglianone followed with a two-run double off starter Janson Junk (4-2). In the fifth, Jonathan India had a two-run double and Vinnie Pasquantino added an RBI sacrifice fly.

Xavier Edwards and Agustín Ramírez each had two RBI for Miami.

Key moment After India popped out to open the fourth, Witt hit his major league-leading 33 double of the season and moved to third on a single by Pasquantino to spark Kansas City's three-run fourth inning.

Key stat The Royals, who went into the game with the fourth-most doubles (172) in the major leagues behind the Boston Red Sox (202), Arizona Diamondbacks (178) and New York Yankees (175), had five doubles by five players.

Up next Miami's Eury Pérez (3-2, 3.18 ERA) was scheduled to start Monday night at home against San Diego. Noah Cameron (3-4, 2.31) was set to start for Kansas City on Monday night in Chicago against the Cubs.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Hicks fouled out to left.
	9th Inning	Lopez to second on fielder's indifference.
	9th Inning	Hicks hit for Wagaman
	9th Inning	Lopez reached on infield single to shortstop, Ramírez to third.
	9th Inning	Estévez relieved Hoffmann
	9th Inning	Ramírez doubled to center, Edwards scored and Sanoja scored.

Statistics

KC		MIA
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
1	Hit By Pitch	0
0	Ground Balls	0
4	Strikeouts	6
7	Runs Batted In	4
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
9	Hits	7
0	Stolen Bases	0
3	Walks	4
0	Catcher Interference	0
7	Runs	4
1	Ground Into Double Play	0
2	Sacrifice Flies	0
34	At Bats	36
1	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
14	Runners Left On Base	20
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
5	Doubles	1
0	Fly Balls	0
0	Caught Stealing	0
140	Pitches	140
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	0
17	Total Bases	8
40	Plate Appearances	40
162.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
6	Extra Base Hits	1
5.7	Runs Created	2.3
.265	Batting Average	.194
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.500	Slugging Percentage	.222
.324	Secondary Average	.139
.325	On Base Percentage	.275
.825	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.497
0.0	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.0
5.5	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	2.1
50.0	Batter Rating	25.0
34.0	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.50	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.50
.235	Isolated Power	.028
0.75	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.67
.075	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.100
.059	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	-.056
14.0	Runs Produced	8.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.6	Patience Ratio	0.3
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.2
93.3	MLB Rating	74.3
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0