CINCINNATI \u2014\u00a0Michael Massey hit a tiebreaking RBI single in the ninth inning, Vinnie Pasquantino and Nick Loftin homered and the Kansas City Royals beat the Cincinnati Reds 5-2 on Wednesday night to win the three-game series.<\/p>\n
Massey\u2019s line drive to right field off Tony Santillan (1-3) scored pinch-runner Tyler Tolbert and Loftin\u2019s first home run this season capped the scoring.<\/p>\n
Daniel Lynch IV (2-0) relieved starter Stephen Kolek in the eighth and did not allow a run before Alex Lange pitched a scoreless ninth for his first save \u2014 and his first save opportunity \u2014 since 2024 with Detroit. Kolek gave up two runs with eight strikeouts in seven innings.<\/p>\n
The Royals won their second road series and their first since a three-game sweep May 1-3 at Seattle. Kansas City is 2-4 in rubber games and 6-14 in series finales.<\/p>\n
Kansas City had lost seven of its previous eight games overall.<\/p>\n
Pasquantino, Massey and Jac Caglianone had two hits apiece.<\/p>\n
Reds starter Chase Burns allowed two runs and four hits with nine strikeouts in six innings. The 23-year-old has 81 strikeouts in 70 1\/3 innings this season.<\/p>\n
After Bobby Witt Jr. walked with one out in the first, Pasquantino’s shot over the wall in right field made it 2-0.<\/p>\n
Tyler Stephenson grounded into a 6-4-3 double play before Matt McLain singled and Blake Dunn followed with a two-run homer that tied it at 2 in the fifth.<\/p>\n
Dunn finished with two hits.<\/p>\n
Up next\n<\/p>\n
Kansas City kicks off a four-game set Thursday at Minnesota. Neither team has announced its starter.<\/p>\n
Reds RHP Brady Singer (2-5, 6.18 ERA) starts Friday in the opener of a three-game series at St. Louis against RHP Kyle Leahy (5-3, 4.25).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI \u2014\u00a0Michael Massey hit a tiebreaking RBI single in the ninth inning, Vinnie Pasquantino and Nick Loftin homered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[58195,16738,3979,64,63,10027,591,44,12293,91812,58194,85,39],"class_list":["post-714808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cincinnati","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-ohio","tag-ohio-cincinnati-reds","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}