CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0Bo Naylor hit a three-run home run in the seventh inning and Kyle Manzardo a two-run double that opened the scoring in the first to lead the Cleveland Guardians over the Kansas City Royals 8-5 on Thursday.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
The Guardians greeted Seth Lugo with five hits in a three-run first inning highlighted by Manzardo\u2019s double to the wall in right-center
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Naylor\u2019s homer into the right-field bullpen cemented the victory
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Cleveland hosts a weekend series against Minnesota<\/p>\n
The Guardians greeted Seth Lugo with five hits in a three-run first inning highlighted by Manzardo\u2019s double to the wall in right-center.<\/p>\n
Petey Halpin got his first career RBI with a third-inning single, extending Cleveland\u2019s lead to 4-0.<\/p>\n
In the sixth, Halpin walked, stole second and scored on Carter Jensen\u2019s passed ball for a 5-1 lead.<\/p>\n
Naylor\u2019s homer into the right-field bullpen cemented the victory.<\/p>\n
In 5 1\/3 innings, Slade Cecconi (2-4) limited the Royals to two runs on six hits while walking three and striking out three.<\/p>\n
Cecconi walked two in the first, but escaped a bases-loaded situation as the Royals twice left the bases full. Kansas City left 10 runners on base, six in scoring position.<\/p>\n
Cade Smith struck out two to earn his 10th save.<\/p>\n
With the four-game series split, the Guardians have won or split nine consecutive series against American League Central division rivals, going 22-8 since losing 2 of 3 in Kansas City on July 26-27, 2025.<\/p>\n
Chase DeLauter doubled to extend his hitting streak to a career-best 11 games while batting. 487.<\/p>\n
Each Guardians hitter in the starting lineup recorded a hit.<\/p>\n
Maikel Garcia\u2019s RBI single got Kansas City on the scoreboard in the fifth.<\/p>\n
Bobby Witt Jr. collected four hits, matching a career high.<\/p>\n
The Royals scored three against Cleveland’s bullpen, including back-to-back seventh-inning homers by Witt and Vinnie Pasquantino.<\/p>\n
Lugo (1-2) labored through four innings, throwing 102 pitches while surrendering four runs on seven hits and four walks, striking out five.<\/p>\n
Royals pitchers walked eight as the Guardians piled on 20 base runners.<\/p>\n
Up next\n<\/p>\n
Cleveland hosts a weekend series against Minnesota as Guardians LHP Parker Messick (3-1, 2.40 ERA) opposes Twins LHP Connor Prielipp (1-0, 3.86).<\/p>\n
Kansas City hosts Detroit with Tigers RHP Keider Montero (2-2, 3.48) opposing Royals LHP Kris Bubic (3-1, 3.32).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0Bo Naylor hit a three-run home run in the seventh inning and Kyle Manzardo a two-run double…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[1014,3550,6643,49,48,4850,462,44,6376,224287,122429,82,39],"class_list":["post-655905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-ca","tag-canada","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\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655905","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=655905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}