{"id":594203,"date":"2026-04-10T06:22:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/594203\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:22:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:22:36","slug":"anthony-kay-earns-first-mlb-win-since-2021-as-white-sox-shut-out-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/594203\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Kay earns first MLB win since 2021 as White Sox shut out Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"

KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 Anthony Kay<\/a> allowed three hits in 5.2 innings to pick up his first major league victory since July 2021 as the Chicago White Sox<\/a> beat the Kansas City Royals 2-0 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Kay (1-0), who pitched the last two seasons in Japan, walked three but struck out six, getting Vinnie Pasquantino, Jac Caglianone and Kyle Isbel twice each.<\/p>\n

Seranthony Dom\u00ednguez picked up his second save as the White Sox snapped a 14-game losing streak at Kauffman Stadium.<\/p>\n

Kansas City starter Seth Lugo (1-1) was nearly as good as Kay, allowing two runs in 6 1\/3 innings. He allowed four hits and struck out four, but issued a season-high four walks, twice his total so far this season.<\/p>\n

Two of those walks came in the seventh, with Andrew Benintendi, who reached via the first walk of the inning, scoring Chicago’s second run on Luisangel Acu\u00f1a’s sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n

The White Sox got on the board in the fourth. Munetaka Murakami coaxed a leadoff walk from Lugo. He then scored on a one-out double by Colson Montgomery.<\/p>\n

Lugo was bailed out by a couple of stellar double plays. In the second, third baseman Maikel Garcia fielded a hard grounder in the hole, raced to second and then fired a throw to first to turn two.<\/p>\n

In the sixth, Bobby Witt Jr. grabbed a line drive by Murakami behind second. He raced to the bag and got Murakami at first.<\/p>\n

The Royals had their best chance to score in the seventh after Garcia and Witt hit two-out singles. But Grant Taylor got Pasquantino to ground out to end the inning.<\/p>\n

The White Sox and Royals will play the second game of a four-game series on Friday night. Chicago will send RHP Davis Martin (2-0, 2.45 ERA) to the mound to face Kansas City LHP Kris Bubic (1-1, 4.09).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 Anthony Kay allowed three hits in 5.2 innings to pick up his first major…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-594203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}