Texas Rangers at Kansas City Royals

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Texas Rangers

62-65, 25-39 Away

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Kansas City Royals

65-61, 35-29 Home

Pasquantino and Witt back Lugo's stellar start, powering Royals to 5-2 win over Rangers

Bobby Witt Jr. added a two-run shot in the eighth for his 100th career homer, and Mike Yastrzemski went deep for the Royals, who have won five straight and improved to 7-1 on their season-high 10-game homestand.

Rangers reliever Hoby Milner (1-3) allowed three consecutive hits to start the seventh, including Pasquantino's double. Cole Winn then entered the game and hit India with his first pitch, giving Kansas City its first lead of the game.

Angel Zerpa (4-1) got five outs for the Royals before John Schreiber took care of the ninth for his first save.

Royals starter Seth Lugo and Rangers counterpart Merrill Kelly had matched each other pitch-for-pitch for most of the night.

Lugo surrendered a homer to Corey Seager with two outs in the first, then allowed one more hit before Joc Pederson’s homer in the fourth. Those were the only three hits that Lugo allowed, and he walked two while striking out five.

Kelly gave up the homer to Pasquantino, which just scraped over the right-field wall, with two outs in the first. He did not allow another hit until Yastrzemski's shot into the right-field bullpen with two outs in the sixth.

Those were the only two hits Kelly allowed over six innings. He struck out three without a walk.

Key moment Jonah Heim led off the eighth for Texas with a single, but Zerpa got pinch-hitter Cody Freeman to ground into a double play.

Key stat Kansas City is 5-0 against the Rangers this season.

Up next The Rangers have not announced their starter for Wednesday after disclosing pregame that RHP Jacob deGrom would skip a turn due to shoulder fatigue. LHP Noah Cameron (7-5, 2.47 ERA) is due on the mound for Kansas City.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Jung flied out to right.
	9th Inning	Semien walked.
	9th Inning	Carter lined out to right.
	9th Inning	Pederson grounded out to second.
	9th Inning	Schreiber relieved Zerpa
	8th Inning	Grichuk struck out swinging.

Statistics

$https://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=/i/teamlogos/mlb/500/tex.png&h=100&scale=crop&w=100&location=origin$ TEX		KC
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
1	Hit By Pitch	2
11	Ground Balls	9
5	Strikeouts	6
2	Runs Batted In	5
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
4	Hits	6
0	Stolen Bases	0
4	Walks	1
0	Catcher Interference	0
2	Runs	5
1	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
29	At Bats	29
2	Home Runs	3
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
7	Runners Left On Base	8
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	1
13	Fly Balls	14
0	Caught Stealing	0
142	Pitches	118
0	Games Started	0
3	Pinch At Bats	1
0	Pinch Hits	1
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	0
10	Total Bases	16
34	Plate Appearances	32
324.0	Projected Home Runs	486.0
2	Extra Base Hits	4
2.5	Runs Created	4.4
.138	Batting Average	.207
.000	Pinch Hit Average	1.000
.345	Slugging Percentage	.552
.345	Secondary Average	.379
.265	On Base Percentage	.281
.610	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.833
0.8	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.6
2.6	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	4.9
18.0	Batter Rating	37.0
14.5	At Bats Per Home Run	9.7
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
4.18	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.69
.207	Isolated Power	.345
0.80	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.17
.118	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.031
.207	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.172
4.0	Runs Produced	10.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.5	Patience Ratio	0.6
0.1	Balls In Play Average	0.2
70.8	MLB Rating	84.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0