Cleveland Guardians at Kansas City Royals

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Cleveland Guardians

52-29, 26-20 Away

Final
7 - 2

Kansas City Royals

46-39, 29-16 Home

Ramirez homers, Josh Naylor two RBIs lead Guardians over Royals 7-2

“It was really positive that we win with a chance to come back tomorrow, but we don’t pay too much attention to that,” Ramirez said about avoiding a four-game losing skid. “We’re going to win a lot of games in a row but also lose a lot of games in a row, but the important part is we compete.”

Vinnie Pasquantino hit his 10th homer of the season while Michael Massey belted his seventh into the right field bullpen to put the Royals ahead 2-1 in the second inning.

“Michael is a really good offensive player for us and today was a good day for him,” Royals manager Matt Quatraro said.

Those two homers were the only runs Tanner Bibee (7-2) gave up over six innings. He allowed four hits and struck out three.

“I felt like I was banging my head against the wall really, because that's what those guys do,” Bibee said. “They put together good at bats and battle. Today was a figure it out day from the get go. I don't think I made many bad pitches, but they just put balls in play.”

The Guardians took a 3-2 lead after a two-run homer by Jhonkensy Noel. The play was challenged, but was upheld as a home run.

“I hit too hard to see, but in my mind I was like ‘please be fair’,” Noel said, who has two homers since being called up four games ago. “It's been great, around these great players, great teammates and we're just trying to win ballgames.”

Ramirez extended the lead with an RBI double in the fifth and his 23rd homer of the season in the seventh inning to make it 7-2.

Cole Ragans (5-6) went 4 2/3 innings and allowed five earned runs. He gave up six hits and struck out six.

“I feel like I didn't command stuff overall and fell behind a lot,” Ragans said. “We've all seen the replay (of the video reviewed home run), it was a really bad pitch right own the middle and can't do anything about it."

Prior to the game, Bo Jackson was inducted into the Royals Hall of Fame. He played for Kansas City for four seasons and was named the All-Star Game Most Valuable Player in 1989.

TRAINER'S ROOM

Cleveland activated RHP Eli Morgan from the 15-day Injured List, signed and placed LHP Matthew Boyd on the 15-day Injured List, optioned RHP Darren McCaughan to Triple-A Columbus and Designated for Assignment RHP Zak Kent.

Cleveland sends LHP Logan Allen (8-3, 5.72 ERA) to the mound against RHP Seth Lugo (10-2, 2.29) for Kansas City.

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Matchup Prediction

Royals: 49.6%

Guardians: 50.4%

*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Perez struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Pasquantino struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Witt Jr. grounded out to shortstop.
	9th Inning	Barlow relieved Gaddis
	9th Inning	Ramírez popped out to shortstop.
	9th Inning	Freeman struck out looking.

Statistics

CLE		KC
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
1	Hit By Pitch	0
8	Ground Balls	8
10	Strikeouts	10
7	Runs Batted In	2
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
9	Hits	6
0	Stolen Bases	0
3	Walks	0
0	Catcher Interference	0
7	Runs	2
1	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
35	At Bats	31
2	Home Runs	2
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
12	Runners Left On Base	5
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
1	Intentional Walks	0
3	Doubles	0
17	Fly Balls	13
0	Caught Stealing	0
157	Pitches	146
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
18	Total Bases	12
39	Plate Appearances	31
324.0	Projected Home Runs	324.0
5	Extra Base Hits	2
5.7	Runs Created	1.9
.257	Batting Average	.194
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.514	Slugging Percentage	.387
.343	Secondary Average	.194
.333	On Base Percentage	.194
.848	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.581
0.5	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.6
5.7	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	2.0
49.0	Batter Rating	20.0
17.5	At Bats Per Home Run	15.5
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
4.03	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.71
.257	Isolated Power	.194
0.30	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.00
.077	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.000
.086	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.000
14.0	Runs Produced	4.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.6	Patience Ratio	0.4
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.2
92.0	MLB Rating	72.3
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0