Cleveland Guardians at Kansas City Royals

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Cleveland Guardians

51-29, 25-20 Away

Final
3 - 10

Kansas City Royals

46-38, 29-15 Home

Royals hit 4 home runs and send AL-leading Guardians to their 3rd straight loss, 10-3

Perez hit his 13th homer of the season in the second inning, a 447-foot shot over the bullpen in left to tie the game at 1-all. Renfroe followed with his eighth homer of the season that put the Royals ahead to stay. Pasquantino added a two-run shot in the eighth inning, his ninth of the season that extended the Kansas City lead to 10-3. The KC trio went a combined 6 for 12 with six RBI and five runs scored.

“We have a great offense and its always great to show it,” Renfroe said. “Our bullpen has been great for us as well.”

Guardians starter Triston McKenzie (3-5) lasted just 2 1/3 innings, allowing five runs on five hits, with three strikeouts and three walks.

“I wasn't commanding the zone early on, but I thought I did a good job working around that,” McKenzie said. “Some of those guys were able to put good swings on the pitches when they were ahead of the count. I thought my stuff looked good I just fell behind guys and never gave myself a chance to get ahead of guys.”

Isbel hit his sixth homer of the season in the fourth inning, and Freddy Fermin added an RBI in the fifth.

“I thought there was good discipline and good patience when we needed to be,” Royals manager Matt Quatraro said. “And then to continue to expand later in the game was really good.”

José Ramírez hit his 22nd homer of the season, a 436-foot blast in the first inning that gave Cleveland the early lead.

Alec Marsh (6-5) gave up the homer to Ramírez and worked six innings, giving up four hits. He struck out five and walked two.

Over the last 10 games, Royals starting pitchers have a combined 1.98 ERA and have thrown six quality starts.

Kansas City has won four of its last five games. Cleveland dropped its third straight.

“Every series is important for us no matter where we are playing,” Guardians manager Stephen Vogt said. “This is a very important series for us and we lost the first two but we've got two more to turn this around.”

Cleveland sends RHP Tanner Bibee (6-2, 3.50 ERA) to the mound to face LHP Cole Ragans (5-5, 3.03) for Kansas City on Saturday.

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Matchup Prediction

Royals: 46.2%

Guardians: 53.8%

*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Rocchio struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Freeman struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Giménez grounded out to first, Fry to third.
	9th Inning	Fry doubled to left.
	9th Inning	Hernández relieved Anderson
	9th Inning	Blanco in center field.

Statistics

CLE		KC
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
1	Hit By Pitch	0
9	Ground Balls	11
10	Strikeouts	4
3	Runs Batted In	9
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
8	Hits	13
1	Stolen Bases	3
2	Walks	8
0	Catcher Interference	0
3	Runs	10
3	Ground Into Double Play	3
1	Sacrifice Flies	1
31	At Bats	32
1	Home Runs	4
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
17	Runners Left On Base	13
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	1
4	Doubles	1
13	Fly Balls	18
1	Caught Stealing	1
137	Pitches	163
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	1
15	Total Bases	26
35	Plate Appearances	41
162.0	Projected Home Runs	648.0
5	Extra Base Hits	5
3.6	Runs Created	11.1
.258	Batting Average	.406
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.484	Slugging Percentage	.813
.290	Secondary Average	.719
.314	On Base Percentage	.512
.798	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	1.325
0.7	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.6
3.5	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	12.5
32.0	Batter Rating	68.0
31.0	At Bats Per Home Run	8.0
0.50	Stolen Base Percentage	0.75
3.91	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.98
.226	Isolated Power	.406
0.20	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	2.00
.057	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.195
.032	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.313
6.0	Runs Produced	19.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	0.9
0.5	Patience Ratio	0.9
0.4	Balls In Play Average	0.4
80.8	MLB Rating	114.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0