CLEVELAND \u2014 Josh Rojas had his second career game with four RBIs, Salvador Perez hit two doubles and the Kansas City Royals defeated the Cleveland Guardians 8-3 on Saturday for their 12th win in 13 games.<\/p>\n
Rojas came into the game as a pinch hitter in the sixth inning. He lined a two-run single to left to extend Kansas City\u2019s lead to 6-2 and added a two-run homer in the eighth. Rojas\u2019 other game with four RBIs was with Arizona in 2022.<\/p>\n
Cleveland’s Angel Mart\u00ednez had two hits, including a two-run homer, and drove in three runs. The Guardians have dropped their last two after a seven-game winning streak.<\/p>\n
Anthony Gose (1-0) pitched 1 2\/3 scoreless innings as five Royals relievers combined to allow one run and two hits in 5 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
Kansas City broke it open with a four-run sixth as its first five batters reached base. Perez’s double to left-center off Colin Holderman (6-4) drove in Bobby Witt Jr. with the go-ahead run.<\/p>\n
After Jo Adell led off the second with a walk, Mart\u00ednez drove a low changeup into the bleachers in left field off Royals starter Daniel Lynch IV.<\/p>\n
Kansas City tied it in the fifth when the first three batters reached base. Nick Loftin hit a leadoff double and Tyler Tolbert got aboard on an infield single before Collins’ double down the left field line tied it at 2.<\/p>\n
Lynch, making his fifth start since being moved from the bullpen to Kansas City’s rotation, allowed two runs in 3 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
Foster Griffin allowed two runs in five innings in his fifth start for Cleveland since being acquired from Washington at the trade deadline.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Kansas City sends RHP Seth Lugo (6-7, 4.61 ERA) to the mound for the series finale. Lefty Parker Messick (10-8, 2.50 ERA) goes for Cleveland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014 Josh Rojas had his second career game with four RBIs, Salvador Perez hit two doubles and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[58195,16738,3979,64,63,6115,591,44,12293,129815,58194,85,39],"class_list":["post-874009","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-cleveland","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-ohio","tag-ohio-cleveland-guardians","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874009","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=874009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}