Another day at the office, another pitiful performance by the Kansas City Royals. For the third straight game, the bullpen coughed up a late lead and they were defeated, this time 4-3 by the Pirates.<\/p>\n
Michael Wacha did everything he could, going 5.2 innings, allowing 4 hits, 2 runs, walking 4 and striking out 5, he also threw 113 pitches.<\/p>\n
The Royals jumped out to an early 1-0 lead, Bobby Witt Jr. and Jac Caglianone hit back-to-back one out singles, to make it 1st and 3rd for Salvador Perez. The Captain came through, singling to center, making it 1-0 in the top of the first.<\/p>\n
Oneil Cruz led off the bottom of the 4th, with a solo homer to tie the game at 1. Wacha got two quick outs in the bottom of the 6th, but a pair of back-to-back walks doomed him, as Spencer Horwitz blooped a go-ahead single making it 2-1.<\/p>\n
In the top of the 7th, John Rave bunt singled to 3rd, and scored on Vinnie Pasquantino\u2019s pinch hit go-ahead two run homer. 3-2 KC.<\/p>\n
Nate Pearson got the bottom of the 8th for the Royals, allowing a leadoff single to Ryan O\u2019Hearn, then Rafael Flores Jr. hit a long go-ahead two-run homer for the Pirates making it 4-3.<\/p>\n
With two outs in the top of the 9th, Luke Maile hit a double off the wall in right, going to third on a fielding error by Jake Mangum. Isaac Collins pinch hit for Kyle Isbel and of course weakly flew out to right field and the Royals lost again.<\/p>\n
The Royals finish their final road trip of the season, 2-7 and 28-53 on the road this season and are 67-89 on the season overall. They are off tomorrow before playing the White Sox and Guardians next week at home to end their season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another day at the office, another pitiful performance by the Kansas City Royals. For the third straight game,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[120587,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-290687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-kansas-city-royals-scores-standings","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290687","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=290687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}