Willy Adames slammed a three-run homer in the ninth inning as the visiting Milwaukee Brewers rallied past the Kansas City Royals, 6-5, on Tuesday night to even a three-game series.With two outs in the ninth and the Brewers trailing 5-3, William Contreras doubled and Gary Sanchez walked before Adames lined a curveball from James McArthur (1-2) into the left field bullpen for his seventh home run of the year.Jared Koenig (3-1) allowed two hits in 1 1/3 innings of scoreless relief for the win, and Trevor Megill pitched a perfect ninth for his third save.Adames' three-run shot spoiled a Royals rally, as Kansas City scored four runs in the fifth to take a 4-2 lead.With Kansas City down 2-0, MJ Melendez tripled to open the fifth before scoring on Kyle Isbel's one-out single. The Royals later got a two-run double from Vinnie Pasquantino and an RBI double from Salvador Perez to cap the outburst and drive Brewers starter Colin Rea from the game.Rea allowed four runs on seven hits and walked one in 4 2/3 innings. He struck out two.Milwaukee took an early lead when Rhys Hoskins and Joey Ortiz led off the second inning with back-to-back homers off Kansas City starter Seth Lugo.It was Hoskins' seventh blast of the season and Ortiz's second.

Maikel Garcia grounded a go-ahead, two-run single up the middle in the seventh inning as the host Kansas City Royals rallied for a 3-2 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Monday in the opener of a three-game series.With the Royals trailing 2-0, Michael Massey led off the home half of the seventh with his third home run of the season. Milwaukee reliever Jared Koenig (2-1) hit a batter and walked another before exiting after retiring just one of the four hitters he faced, giving way to Elvis Peguero, the second of three Brewers hurlers in the frame.Dairon Blanco reached on an infield single, loading the bases, and Garcia drove the first pitch he saw from Peguero to center, scoring two for a 3-2 Kansas City lead.Nick Anderson (2-1) struck out two in a hitless seventh for the win.Chris Stratton walked two in the ninth but induced a double-play grounder from Willy Adames en route to his second save of the year.The Royals benefited from a controversial call in the top of the eighth, when Jackson Chourio was caught trying to steal third. The Brewers challenged the close play, but third base umpire Angel Hernandez's call stood.

Nathaniel Lowe delivered a 10th-inning RBI single, lifting the visiting Texas Rangers to a 3-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals to win the three-game series.The Rangers rallied with single tallies in the eighth and ninth to tie the game 2-2. With one out in the top of the 10th, Lowe lined a 1-2 pitch into center field to score Leody Taveras with the go-ahead run, completing the come-from-behind win.Taveras doubled and scored on Corey Seager's eighth-inning sacrifice fly.With one out in the ninth, Jonah Heim connected for first-pitch homer off the right-field foul pole, snapping Texas' four-game drought without a home run and ending Royals closer James McArthur's string of nine consecutive scoreless outings.Kirby Yates (3-0) allowed one walk with two strikeouts in two scoreless, hitless frames for the win. David Robertson pitched a hitless inning to earn his first save as the Rangers improved to 2-0 in extra-inning games.The Royals grabbed a 2-0 lead as their first four hits went for extra bases against Texas starter Jon Gray.Bobby Witt Jr. tripled and scored on Vinnie Pasquantino's sacrifice fly in the first to open the scoring.With two outs in the third, Witt and Pasquantino hit consecutive doubles for a 2-0 lead.Witt's 19 extra-base hits lead the American League.

Nathaniel Lowe collected four hits and drove in two runs as the visiting Texas Rangers blasted the Kansas City Royals 15-4 Saturday evening.Adolis Garcia's first-inning sacrifice fly put the Rangers ahead 1-0.In the third, Lowe singled and scored ahead of Evan Carter's two-out, two-run triple. Carter scored on a wild pitch for a 4-0 lead.Lowe's third hit, a bases-loaded single to center, plated two in a three-run fourth, driving Michael Wacha from the mound after 3 2/3 innings.Texas ripped Wacha (1-4) for nine hits while building a 7-0 lead. Seven runs allowed are the most by a Kansas City starter since Cole Ragans also surrendered seven on April 20. Wacha walked one and struck out three.Lowe led off the seventh with his fourth hit and scored on Travis Jankowski's RBI grounder as the Rangers put the game out of reach with three runs in the frame. It was Lowe's fifth career game of four or more hits and first this season.Josh Smith's RBI triple highlighted a five-run ninth to cap Texas' highest scoring output so far and the most scored against Kansas City this season. The Rangers recorded a season-high 17 hits.Texas starter Dane Dunning retired the first nine batters in order before Maikel Garcia's leadoff single in the fourth. He needed just 49 pitches while facing the minimum through four innings.

Salvador Perez and Hunter Renfroe homered as the Kansas City Royals rallied past the visiting Texas Rangers 7-1 on Friday evening.With one out in the fifth, Renfroe belted Michael Lorenzen's 1-2 slider 373 feet down the left-field line for his third homer of the year to tie the score 1-1.The Royals broke the game open in the seventh. Kansas City scored six times on six hits in the inning, capped by Perez's three-run homer to give the Royals a 7-1 lead.MJ Melendez broke a 0-for-27 slump with a leadoff single. Dairon Blanco pinch-ran for Melendez and stole second. Kyle Isbel singled to center to drive in Blanco and give the Royals a 2-1 lead.Bobby Witt Jr. and Vinnie Pasquantino added RBI singles before Perez's blast to left.Perez's eighth homer of the season extended his career-best on-base streak to 22 games. His 30 RBIs lead the American League.Cole Winn (0-1) gave up four runs on four hits in one-third of an inning.John Schreiber (3-0) allowed two hits and two walks in the seventh but escaped damage by striking out Marcus Semien with the bases loaded to end the inning.

Michael Massey hit a three-run homer, right-hander Seth Lugo allowed two hits over seven innings, and the visiting Kansas City Royals defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 6-1 Wednesday afternoon.Danny Jansen hit a solo home run for the Blue Jays in the rubber match of the three-game series. The Royals also take the season series between the teams, 5-2.Toronto right-hander Chris Bassitt (2-5) allowed three runs, four hits and one walk with four strikeouts in six innings. He also hit a batter and did not allow a hit until the three-run sixth.Lugo (5-1) allowed one run, and two walks while striking out eight.It was a pitching duel for the first five innings.Bassitt walked Vinnie Pasquantino with two out in the first and then retired nine in a row until he hit Salvador Perez with a pitch with two out in the fourth.Lugo allowed a one-out single to Vladimir Guerrero Jr. in the first and retired eight straight before walking Guerrero to lead off the home fourth. He also walked Daulton Varsho before finishing the inning.The Royals scored three runs in the sixth inning. Kyle Isbel led off the sixth by lining a double down the left-field line for Kansas City's first hit of the game.

Michael Massey hit a two-run home run, left-hander Cole Ragans struck out nine and the visiting Kansas City Royals defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 4-1 on Tuesday night.The Royals ended a three-game losing streak and evened the three-game series with the Blue Jays.Toronto right-hander Jose Berrios (4-2) allowed two runs and five hits in seven innings. He walked one and struck out three.Ragans (2-2) yielded one run, four hits and three walks in 6 2/3 innings. He left the game with a left calf cramp.Kansas City took the lead in the second on Massey's first home run of the season. Salvador Perez led off the inning with a single, and Massey followed by blasting a slurve to right-center.Davis Schneider smacked a single with one out in the bottom of the frame, but he was thrown out by right fielder Hunter Renfroe while attempting to stretch it into a double.Berrios retired nine batters in a row before Freddy Fermin singled to open the fifth, but Berrios soon got Renfroe to ground into an inning-ending double play.Toronto scored a run in the sixth. Isiah Kiner-Falefa opened the inning with a single and took third on Vladimir Guerrero Jr.'s two-out base hit. Bo Bichette, who entered Tuesday in a 2-for-22 funk, then hit an RBI single.

Justin Turner hit two homers and drove in three runs as the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the visiting Kansas City Royals 6-5 on Monday.Danny Jansen added a solo homer for the Blue Jays in the opener of a three-game series. Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Davis Schneider and Isiah Kiner-Falefa each had two hits for Toronto, which has won two in a row since dropping five straight.Kyle Isbel and Freddy Fernin each had a solo homer and a single for the Royals, who took their third consecutive loss. Maikel Garcia also finished with two this.Toronto starter Yariel Rodriguez allowed three runs (two earned), six hits and three walks in 3 2/3 innings. He struck out one.Genesis Cabrera (1-0), the first of five Blue Jays relievers, threw 1 1/3 scoreless innings for the win. Nate Pearson pitched around two hits in the ninth for his first save of the year.Royals right-hander Jonathan Bowlan (0-1) was recalled from Triple-A for the start. He allowed four runs on six hits and three walks in 2 2/3 innings while fanning three.Each team scored twice in the first inning.Bobby Witt Jr. singled with one out for Kansas City, stole second with two outs and scored on Nelson Velazquez's bad-hop double past third baseman Addison Barger. After Barger threw wildly to second, Velazquez took third and scored on Michael Massey's infield single to shortstop.Guerrero walked with one out in the bottom of the first before Turner homered down the left field line.

Tarik Skubal pitched seven strong innings, Wenceel Perez blasted his first career home run and the host Detroit Tigers defeated the Kansas City Royals 4-1 on Sunday afternoon.Skubal (4-0) limited the Royals to one run, four hits and one walk while striking out six. Shelby Miller tossed a scoreless inning before Jason Foley escaped a jam for his ninth save.Perez was playing in his 13th game after being called up from Triple-A Toledo.Jake Rogers had two hits, including a solo homer, and scored two runs for the Tigers. Detroit won two of three games during the weekend series.Royals starters Michael Wacha (1-3) gave up four runs and nine hits in 5 2/3 innings. Bobby Witt Jr. drove in the only run for the Royals.Kansas City took a 1-0 lead in the first. Leadoff man Maikel Garcia hit a bouncer that got by third baseman Matt Vierling. Garcia was credited with a double. Witt then singled to center to bring home Garcia.Detroit gained a 2-1 advantage in the bottom of the inning. Mark Canha smacked a one-out double to right before Perez hit a 1-0 Wacha changeup over the right field wall.The Tigers tacked on a run in the second. Rogers hit a one-out single and moved to third on Parker Meadows' double, then scored on Riley Greene's sacrifice fly.

Matt Vierling hit a three-run homer in the seventh inning to lift the Detroit Tigers to a 6-5 win over the visiting Kansas City Royals on Saturday.Vierling's two-out home run to left-center off Kansas City reliever Chris Stratton capped a five-run inning for the Tigers after they trailed 3-1 going into the seventh.After a leadoff walk to Jake Rogers and a single by Riley Greene, Mark Canha singled home Rogers to cut the Kansas City lead to 3-2.Kerry Carpenter hit a one-out RBI single to drive in Greene and tie the score at 3-3, setting up Vierling's heroics.Andrew Chafin pitched a scoreless eighth inning.Kansas City scored two runs in the ninth inning off Detroit closer Jason Foley to trim its deficit to 6-5. Maikel Garcia had an RBI groundout and Bobby Witt, Jr. hit an RBI single to make it a one-run game.But Vinnie Pasquantino flied out to center field to end the game.Garcia, Witt, Salvador Perez and Dairon Blanco each had two hits for the Royals.

Seth Lugo pitched seven dominant innings and the visiting Kansas City Royals scored seven ninth-inning runs to notch an 8-0 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Friday afternoon.Lugo (4-1) allowed only three hits and tied his career-best with nine strikeouts. John Schreiber and Will Smith completed the shutout.Bobby Witt Jr. drove in three runs and Maikel Garcia knocked in a pair during the opener of the three-game series. Adam Frazier scored two runs, drove in another and made a sparkling defensive play.Detroit starter Reese Olson (0-4) limited the Royals to one run and three hits in seven innings.Neither side had a baserunner until Frazier hit a one-out single in the top of the third. Kyle Isbel followed with another single and Garcia drew a walk, loading the bases. Witt then hit a sacrifice fly to center to score Frazier.Frazier saved two runs in the bottom of the frame. Javier Baez drew a leadoff walk and, with one out, Parker Meadows ripped a long fly to right. Frazier made a leaping grab to rob Meadows of a home run, then doubled Baez off first.The Tigers didn't have a hit until Mark Canha's one-out single in the fourth. Spencer Torkelson reached on an infield single but Kerry Carpenter lined out to short and Matt Vierling flied out, ending the threat.

Salvador Perez homered as the host Kansas City Royals outlasted the weather and the Toronto Blue Jays to win a rain-shortened 2-1 contest on Thursday afternoon.The five-inning contest marked their third straight victory by one run and gave the Royals their first series win against the Blue Jays since April 15-18, 2021.Perez lined a first-pitch, two-run homer down the left-field line in the first inning. His seventh home run of the year gave him 837 career RBIs, tying him with Mike Sweeney for fifth all-time in franchise history. Perez is batting .375 with five homers and 15 RBIs in his last 12 games and hit .435 with eight RBIs during the club's 4-3 homestand.Perez's home run, his seventh this season, snapped a career-best 21 2/3 scoreless innings streak by Toronto starter Jose Berrios (4-1).Berrios surrendered two runs on three hits and three walks with one strikeout in five innings. Four of the five runs allowed by Berrios in his six starts this year have scored via home runs.Cole Ragans (1-2) rebounded from his career-worst start against Baltimore on Saturday to hurl five innings, allowing a run on three hits and three walks while striking out four.Ragans pitched out of trouble in the second by retiring Alejandro Kirk on a liner with runners at the corners. The left-hander was assisted in the fifth inning on a diving, over-the-shoulder catch at the warning track by center fielder Kyle Isbel of a George Springer flyball.

The Kansas City Royals placed right-hander Alec Marsh on the 15-day injured list Thursday, one day after he was struck in his throwing forearm by a line drive.Fellow right-hander Will Klein was recalled from Triple-A Omaha in a corresponding move.Addison Barger led off the fifth inning with a comebacker that hit Marsh. Undaunted, Marsh picked up the ball and threw to first to get the out before exiting the game."We feel like we got pretty lucky," Royals manager Matt Quatraro said after his team's 3-2 win. "It got him in like just above the elbow, on the forearm, but squaring him up. I mean, you could see (the laces) pretty good."He was saying, 'Oh, it's coming back. It's coming back.' We've got to use our heads there a little bit."

The host Kansas City Royals took advantage of some miscues to beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-2 on Wednesday evening.Making his major league debut, left fielder Addison Barger misplayed Kyle Isbel's second-inning fly ball into a double, then allowed Isbel to advance to third on an error. Isbel scored on Maikel Garcia's two-out single to give the Royals a 2-0 lead.After two walks in the first inning, Salvador Perez drove in Kansas City's first run with a sharp RBI single to left.Royals starter Alec Marsh allowed two hits and two walks over 4 1/3 scoreless innings but was forced from the game after being struck near his pitching elbow on a hard comebacker by Barger leading off the fifth.After Marsh exited with a right forearm contusion, George Springer hit his third home run of the season to center against reliever �ngel Zerpa, cutting the Blue Jays' deficit to 2-1 in the fifth.After back-to-back singles by Isbel and Garcia to lead off the fifth, Bobby Witt Jr. hit an RBI single, ending the night for Yariel Rodr�guez (0-1), who allowed three runs on six hits with two walks, striking out two in four-plus innings.Kansas City led 3-1 after leaving the bases loaded against reliever Genesis Cabrera.

Bobby Witt Jr. doubled in two runs as the host Kansas City Royals rallied past the Toronto Blue Jays, 3-2, on Tuesday evening.Trailing 2-0 with two outs in the fifth, the Royals took advantage of Vladimir Guerrero Jr.'s error. On a potential inning-ended grounder, Guerrero failed to catch third baseman Isiah Kiner-Falefa's throw, allowing Michael Massey to score Kansas City's first run.After Maikel Garcia's single, Witt followed with a two-run double to give Kansas City a 3-2 lead. The RBIs were Witt's first since April 11, and it marked the Royals' first lead in 32 innings.The Blue Jays flooded the basepaths early against Royals starter Michael Wacha, putting eight runners on over the first three innings via five singles and three walks. However, Toronto stranded six while managing only one run on Justin Turner's run-scoring infield single in the third.Turner scored on Alejandro Kirk's fifth-inning sacrifice fly for a 2-0 Blue Jays lead.In 4 1/3 innings, Wacha allowed two runs on eight hits and three walks. He struck out four.Toronto starter Kevin Gausman (0-3) -- the reigning American League strikeout leader -- didn't fan a batter until the final out of the fourth. He pitched 6 2/3 innings, allowing three unearned runs on seven hits and a walk, with two strikeouts.

Bo Bichette's three-run triple led the Toronto Blue Jays past the host Kansas City Royals, 5-3, on Monday evening.The Blue Jays took a 3-0 lead in the third after a pair of walks and Cavan Biggio's opposite-field double loaded the bases. With one out, Bichette's slicing liner to right-center tipped off the glove of diving center fielder Garrett Hampson, clearing the bases.Daulton Varsho took Kansas City starter Brady Singer's 1-2 slider out to right for a two-run homer in the sixth, expanding Toronto's lead to 5-0. Varsho leads the Blue Jays with six homers this season.Toronto scored more runs on Bichette's swing than Singer (2-1) had allowed in any of his four previous starts this year. Singer threw six innings, allowing five runs on five hits and three walks, striking out five.Blue Jays starter Yusei Kikuchi (2-1) made quick work of the Royals through five scoreless innings, only allowing a bad-hop infield single.But he ran into trouble in the sixth, as Dairon Blanco doubled with one out and scored on Maikel Garcia's two-run blast that drew Kansas City within 5-2. The homer broke a streak of 16 scoreless innings for the Royals.

Cole Irvin took a shutout into the seventh inning as the Baltimore Orioles beat the host Kansas City Royals, 5-0, Sunday afternoon to win the season series.Irvin (1-1) escaped first-inning trouble, then limited Kansas City to just three singles and a walk over the next six innings.In his longest outing since September 17, 2022, Irvin pitched 6 2/3 scoreless innings, allowing four hits and two walks, striking out two.Colton Cowser and Jordan Westburg opened the second inning with back-to-back homers, each connecting for their fifth of the year to give Baltimore a 2-0 lead.Two batters later, Gunner Henderson nearly added a third home run in the frame with a ringing double off the top of the right-field wall which was reviewed by umpires to determine if it might have cleared the railing. Henderson's liner was measured at 109.1 miles-per-hour exit velocity.Baltimore expanded its lead in the sixth as Ryan Mountcastle followed Anthony Santander's one-out triple with a first-pitch double to left. Seth Lugo (3-1) exited after walking Cowser to load the bases and reliever �ngel Zerpa walked Westburg for a 4-0 Orioles' advantage.

The Baltimore Orioles used a seven-run second inning to escape with a 9-7 win over the host Kansas City Royals on Saturday night to even their series.Corbin Burnes delivered five shutout innings before coming apart in the sixth.Burnes (3-0) recovered from being pelted by a sharp first-inning grounder from Royals leadoff hitter Maikel Garcia to limit Kansas City to two singles over the first five innings. No runners passed first base until Garcia's one-out double in the sixth.Burnes exited with two out in the sixth after surrendering a three-run homer to Salvador Perez, his sixth. Burnes allowed three runs on four hits and a walk, striking out four.Perez finished 3-for-5 with five RBIs.The Orioles built a 7-0 lead in the second, forcing 49 pitches from Cole Ragans (0-2) while sending 12 batters to the plate. Ragans allowed seven runs on nine hits while recording five outs -- four by strikeout.Jordan Westburg opened the second inning with a single and then capped the seven-run outburst with a two-run single. Ramon Urias and Anthony Santander each contributed RBI doubles.It was the Orioles' most productive inning since scoring nine in the sixth inning against the Angels on March 30.

MJ Melendez homered and drove in four runs and Alec Marsh tossed 5 2/3 scoreless innings as the host Kansas City Royals earned a 9-4 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Friday.Melendez snapped a 0-for-23 skid with a two-out RBI single to ignite a five-run sixth inning. He added a three-run homer in the seventh inning to propel the Royals to their ninth straight win at home.Marsh (3-0) scattered three hits, struck out six and walked two to defeat the Orioles for the second time this season. He allowed one run on two hits over seven innings in Kansas City's 4-1 win on April 2.Michael Massey had a two-run single in his season debut and Hunter Renfroe added a two-run double in the Royals' sixth-inning uprising. Massey had been sidelined since late in spring training due to a lower back strain.Vinnie Pasquantino homered for Kansas City.Baltimore's Adley Rutschman launched his first career grand slam to highlight his three-hit performance. The Orioles, however, predominantly were held in check as their four-game winning streak ended.Dean Kremer (0-2) retired the first 11 batters he faced before Pasquantino deposited a 1-1 splitter over the wall in right field with two outs in the fourth inning. The homer was the fourth for Pasquantino this season, all of them coming during his eight-game hitting streak.

Gavin Sheets homered and the Chicago White Sox beat the visiting Kansas City Royals 2-1 on Wednesday night in the second game of a doubleheader.It marked Chicago's first win against the Royals this season in seven tries. Kansas City took the opener of the twin bill, 4-2.In Game 2, the White Sox went ahead 1-0 in the bottom of the fourth when Andrew Vaughn doubled to left and Dominic Fletcher drove him in with a sharp single down the right field line.Sheets doubled Chicago's lead when he led off the sixth by turning on a first-pitch fastball from Royals right-hander Michael Wacha, driving it off the right field foul pole for his third homer of the year.The Royals cut the lead in half at 2-1 in the top of the seventh. Nick Loftin singled to right, went to second on Adam Frazier's groundout to first, took third on Tanner Banks' errant pickoff attempt and scored on Hunter Renfroe's groundout to third.Kansas City got the tying run on against reliever Deivi Garcia in the eighth, but with two outs, pinch runner Dairon Blanco was gunned down by Chicago catcher Korey Lee while trying to steal second.Garcia stayed in for the ninth and got his first save of the season. He logged two scoreless innings in all, giving up just one hit while walking one.