Washington Nationals at Kansas City Royals

· Major League Baseball

Washington Nationals

47-72, 25-36 Away

Final
5 - 8

Kansas City Royals

60-60, 30-28 Home

Pasquantino doubles, homers, drives in 5, leading the Royals past the Nationals 8-5

After a two-out, third-inning walk by Maikel Garcia and Bobby Witt Jr.’s infield hit, Pasquantino hit Mitchell Parker’s first-pitch fastball into the second row of the right field stands, a few feet inside the foul pole, expanding Kansas City’s lead to 4-0.

Pasquantino opened the scoring with a first-inning sacrifice fly and capped the Royals scoring with an RBI double in the seventh.

Jonathan India’s two-run homer extended Kansas City’s lead to 7-2 in the sixth.

Michael Wacha (7-9) allowed two runs on five hits and two walks with three strikeouts in 5 2/3 innings, his sixth consecutive start permitting fewer than three runs.

Lucas Erceg earned his second save with a hitless ninth.

In 5 1/3 innings, Parker (7-13) allowed five runs on two hits with three walks and three strikeouts. Over his last three starts — all losses — Parker has allowed 17 runs in 14 1/3 innings.

Leaping at the center field wall, Robert Hassell III robbed Randal Grichuk of a solo home run in the fifth.

In the sixth, CJ Abrams scored when Witt misplayed Paul DeJong’s deep pop fly, cutting the Royals lead to 4-2.

Abrams and James Wood collected two-out RBI in the seventh. Wood recorded his fourth straight multihit game.

Key moment On Witt’s soft ground out between the plate and mound, Garcia hustled from first to third before scoring on Pasquantino’s sacrifice fly as Kansas City took a 1-0 lead in a hitless first inning.

Key stat Pasquantino leads the Royals 32 two-out RBI and ranks second in the majors with 23 go-ahead RBI.

Up next Nationals RHP Jake Irvin (8-7, 4.90 ERA) opposes Royals RHP Seth Lugo (8-6, 3.46)

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Abrams lined out to center.
	9th Inning	Wood flied out to left.
	9th Inning	Hassell III grounded out to second.
	9th Inning	Erceg relieved Clarke
	9th Inning	Tolbert in left field.
	9th Inning	Loftin at second base.

Statistics

WSH		KC
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
11	Ground Balls	9
4	Strikeouts	6
5	Runs Batted In	8
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
10	Hits	6
0	Stolen Bases	1
2	Walks	6
0	Catcher Interference	0
5	Runs	8
1	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	1
36	At Bats	29
0	Home Runs	2
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
11	Runners Left On Base	9
2	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	2
21	Fly Balls	15
0	Caught Stealing	0
133	Pitches	149
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	1
15	Total Bases	14
38	Plate Appearances	36
0.0	Projected Home Runs	324.0
3	Extra Base Hits	4
4.5	Runs Created	5.4
.278	Batting Average	.207
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.417	Slugging Percentage	.483
.194	Secondary Average	.517
.316	On Base Percentage	.333
.732	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.816
0.5	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.6
4.5	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	6.1
37.0	Batter Rating	49.0
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	14.5
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.50	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.14
.139	Isolated Power	.276
0.50	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	1.00
.053	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.167
-.083	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.310
10.0	Runs Produced	16.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.5	Patience Ratio	0.6
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.2
87.0	MLB Rating	89.8
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0