Kansas City Royals at Chicago White Sox

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Kansas City Royals

67-65, 31-35 Away

Final
0 - 7

Chicago White Sox

48-83, 29-37 Home

Shane Smith gives up 1 hit in a career-high 7 innings, White Sox beat the Royals 7-0

Smith (4-7) pitched into the seventh inning for the first time in his career, facing just 23 batters on 80 pitches.

Lee, in his first start since getting called up from Triple-A Charlotte, drove a shot over the left-field wall for his first home run of the season for a 5-0 lead in the fourth. Brooks Baldwin followed with a home run near the same spot for a six-run lead.

Chicago has won three straight games after losing 14 of 18.

Kansas City dropped to 13-10 in August. The Royals entered having scored at least five runs in 20 of 34 games (58.8%) since the All-Star break, tied with Milwaukee for the most in the majors.

Kansas City starter Noah Cameron (7-6) allowed six earned runs and eight hits in five innings.

Mike Yastrzemski hit a double in the third and Bobby Witt Jr. had one in the ninth for the Royals' two hits.

Key moment Chicago scored three runs on four hits in the first inning. Edgar Quero hit a shot into the gap in left-center field to score Chase Meidroth from first to open the scoring. Lenyn Sosa followed with a hit into the right-field gap for back-to-back doubles. Curtis Mead added Chicago’s third double for his third RBI of the season and a 3-0 lead.

Key stat Chicago scored in the first inning for the third time in four games after doing so just once in the previous nine.

Up next Royals RHP Michael Lorenzen (5-8, 4.50) is scheduled to make his 21st start of the season while White Sox LHP Martín Pérez (1-3, 2.51) will be making his sixth start.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Pasquantino popped out to pitcher.
	9th Inning	Witt Jr. doubled to left.
	9th Inning	Grichuk fouled out to catcher.
	9th Inning	Grichuk hit for Yastrzemski
	9th Inning	Tolbert flied out to right.
	9th Inning	Tolbert hit for Isbel

Statistics

KC		CHW
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
7	Ground Balls	7
4	Strikeouts	1
0	Runs Batted In	7
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
2	Hits	11
0	Stolen Bases	0
1	Walks	1
0	Catcher Interference	0
0	Runs	7
1	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
29	At Bats	35
0	Home Runs	2
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
4	Runners Left On Base	11
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
2	Doubles	5
18	Fly Balls	27
0	Caught Stealing	0
102	Pitches	138
0	Games Started	0
3	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	0
4	Total Bases	22
30	Plate Appearances	36
0.0	Projected Home Runs	324.0
2	Extra Base Hits	7
-1.2	Runs Created	7.2
.069	Batting Average	.314
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.138	Slugging Percentage	.629
.103	Secondary Average	.343
.100	On Base Percentage	.333
.238	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.962
0.4	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.3
-1.2	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	8.0
6.0	Batter Rating	55.0
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	17.5
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.40	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.83
.069	Isolated Power	.314
0.25	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	1.00
.033	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.028
.034	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.029
0.0	Runs Produced	14.0
0.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.2	Patience Ratio	0.6
0.1	Balls In Play Average	0.3
57.5	MLB Rating	100.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0

Game Information

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2025 American League Central Standings

TEAM	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Detroit	-	62	L1	0.5694444	82
Cleveland	8.5	70	W4	0.5104895	73
Kansas City	9	71	L2	0.5069444	73
Minnesota	18	80	W2	0.44444445	64
Chicago	27	89	W1	0.38194445	55

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