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<\/p>\nNEW YORK \u2014 It started with a Royal Mess. It ended with a toast fit for a king.<\/p>\n
The Kansas City Royals\u2019 16-12 win over the New York Mets on Tuesday at Citi Field was nobody\u2019s idea of a crisp baseball game. It looked, as it indeed was, like a matchup between the second-worst team in each league.<\/p>\n
But afterward, the Royals set out a tray of champagne flutes for a noisy toast to an unlikely bit of history: With hits in each of his first five at-bats Tuesday night, Tyler Tolbert tied a major-league record by collecting 12 consecutive hits over the last three days.<\/p>\n
Tolbert had gone 2-for-2 on Sunday, 5-for-5 on Monday and finished 5-for-6 (with a ninth-inning flyout) on Tuesday. The 12 consecutive hits tied a record held by Johnny Kling (1902), Pinky Higgins (1938), Walt Dropo (1952) and Jos\u00e9 Miranda (2024). In the process, the outfielder raised his batting average from .200 to .396.<\/p>\n
His bat is on its way to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I get older I can tell my kids and take them to Cooperstown because I\u2019ve never been,\u201d Tolbert said. \u201cAnd I have something there, a piece of history that will be there forever.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Tolbert\u2019s last three hits were all to the left side of the Mets\u2019 infield. They carried expected batting averages of .180, .060 and .050.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of them were luck \u2014 I had to leg some out \u2014 but it was just really cool,\u201d Tolbert said. \u201cIt was a ride, it was a journey, but I know this game has its ups and downs, and we\u2019ve just got to continue to ride the wave.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tolbert\u2019s offense helped Kansas City overcome the worst defensive play of the major-league season. In the first inning, the Royals committed three errors on one Carson Benge comebacker, turning a ball that traveled maybe 50 feet into three New York runs.<\/p>\n
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\n Carson Benge celebrates with his teammates Tuesday. (Adam Hunger \/ AP Photo)<\/p>\n
With two on and two outs in the first inning, Benge tapped a ball between the pitcher\u2019s mound and the third-base line. Starter Seth Lugo pounced on it, but his rushed throw against the speedy Benge skipped past Jac Caglianone\u2019s glove and into foul territory, allowing the first run to score.<\/p>\n
The runners had already stopped at second and third when Caglianone uncorked as wild a throw home as you\u2019ll see, with the ball nearly entering the visiting dugout up the third-base line, allowing Bo Bichette to scoot home and Benge to move to third.<\/p>\n
Nick Loftin recovered the ball and tried to get Bichette at the plate, but his throw was late and slid past Carter Jensen, permitting Benge to finish his circuit of the bases.<\/p>\n
The play was scored a single with an E1, E3 and E5 on Kansas City\u2019s throws.<\/p>\n
(The third throw is cut off here, but was also wild.)<\/p>\n
[image or embed]<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Tim Britton (he\/him) (@timbritton.bsky.social<\/a>) July 7, 2026 at 7:34 PM<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cEven in pregame, the ball was wet,\u201d Royals manager Matt Quatraro said. \u201cIt\u2019s just a really unfortunate play.\u201d<\/p>\n This is just the second time in the last decade that a team has committed three errors on a play, according to Elias Sports Bureau. Last September, the Miami Marlins achieved the ignominious feat in the second inning of a 2-0 loss to the Detroit Tigers.<\/p>\n The Royals scored 15-plus runs in consecutive games for the first time in franchise history. Conversely, the Mets lost a home game in which they scored at least 11 runs for the first time in their history.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve been doing this a long time,\u201d Quatraro said. \u201cThe more I do it, the less I think I have this thing figured out.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2014 Tyler Kepner\u00a0contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 It started with a Royal Mess. It ended with a toast fit for a king.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30930,9,11,320,10],"class_list":["post-290367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}