{"id":687952,"date":"2026-05-23T05:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/687952\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T05:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:49:14","slug":"mitch-garvers-two-run-homer-sends-seattle-mariners-to-win-over-punchless-kansas-city-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/687952\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitch Garver\u2019s two-run homer sends Seattle Mariners to win over punchless Kansas City Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Mitch Garver<\/a> hit a two-run homer, Logan Gilbert<\/a> threw 5 2\/3 sharp innings and the Seattle Mariners<\/a> beat the Kansas City Royals<\/a> 2-0 on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Cole Young<\/a> walked to open the seventh inning before Garver squared up a 1-0 sinker from Nick Mears<\/a> (2-3) and launched a 406-foot shot to left field.<\/p>\n

Gilbert surrendered two hits and struck out six while walking four. Eduard Bazardo<\/a> (3-2) followed with 1 1\/3 hitless innings, Matt Brash<\/a> worked out of trouble in the eighth and Andr\u00e9s Mu\u00f1oz pitched the ninth for his ninth save.<\/p>\n

The teams combined for nine hits. Julio Rodr\u00edguez doubled and singled for Seattle, and Garver also went 2 for 4.<\/p>\n

Kansas City\u2019s Noah Cameron<\/a> struck out a career-high eight while allowing four hits in six innings, his first scoreless start in nine outings this season.<\/p>\n

The Royals have lost five straight at home and have scored nine runs in their last six games.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

RHP George Kirby<\/a> (5-3, 3.45 ERA) takes the mound for the Mariners while RHP Stephen Kolek<\/a> (2-0, 4.24) gets the start for the Royals on Saturday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Mitch Garver hit a two-run homer, Logan Gilbert threw 5 2\/3 sharp innings…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-687952","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\/687952","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=687952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}