{"id":236348,"date":"2026-07-06T01:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T01:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/236348\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T01:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T01:03:07","slug":"aaron-nola-goes-7-innings-for-first-time-this-season-but-philadelphia-phillies-fall-to-kansas-city-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/236348\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Nola goes 7 innings for first time this season, but Philadelphia Phillies fall to Kansas City Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salvador Perez drove in two runs, Luinder Avile went five innings, and the Kansas City Royals snapped a four-game losing streak with a 5-2 win over the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>Avila (4-3) held Philadelphia to one run in five innings. He had four strikeouts and one walk. Alex Lange pitched the ninth for this eighth save.<\/p>\n<p>The Royals scored a pair of runs in the first inning when Lane Thomas knocked a two-out double to right-center field. Michael Massey followed with an RBI single.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia&#8217;s Bryson Stott extended his on-base streak to 12 games with a triple in the fifth inning and scored on a sacrifice fly from Gabriel Rincones Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Avila left after the next out.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City&#8217;s Isaac Collins led off the fifth with a double after successfully challenging a third-strike call for the second time in the game. He scored on a sacrifice fly to center from Jac Caglianone.<\/p>\n<p>Stott struck again in the seventh with a leadoff single. He advanced on a fielder&#8217;s choice and throwing error, then scored on another force out.<\/p>\n<p>Phillies starter Aaron Nola (3-6) struck out seven across seven innings, including the last three batters he faced.<\/p>\n<p>Perez sealed the game for the Royals with a two-run double in the eighth inning that scored Bobby Witt Jr. and Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>With a walk in the sixth, Kyle Schwarber has reached base in 11 consecutive games.<\/p>\n<p>Before the game, the Royals inducted former player, coach and manager John Wathan into the organization&#8217;s Hall of Fame. He played 10 seasons in the majors and won the 1985 World Series with Kansas City.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Phillies LHP Christopher S\u00e1nchez (10-3, 2.00 ERA) faces Royals LHP Noah Cameron (4-6, 4.95).<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Salvador Perez drove in two runs, Luinder Avile went five innings, and the Kansas City Royals snapped a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5520,101807,4607,11199,69,71,70,1425,726],"class_list":["post-236348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kyle-schwarber","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}