ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 MacKenzie Gore continued his home-field mastery this season with 6 1\/3 shutout innings, Brandon Nimmo, Nicky Lopez and Joc Pederson homered, and the Texas Rangers beat the Kansas City Royals 9-1 on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Gore (4-4) allowed four hits and walked one. The left-hander is 3-0 in five starts this year at Globe Life Field with a 2.08 ERA. His 1-4 road record comes with a 5.81 ERA.<\/p>\n
The Royals have lost four straight, 14 of their last 17, and fell a season-worst 13 games under .500.<\/p>\n
Vinnie Pasqantino ended Kansas City\u2019s string of 23 consecutive scoreless innings with an RBI single in the ninth off Gavin Collyer.<\/p>\n
Nimmo hit a two-run homer in the fifth inning off Stephen Kolek (3-1), who came off his second career shutout. Lopez, a former Royal who joined Texas on Tuesday, homered in the sixth off Steven Cruz with one on for his first Rangers hit after going 0 for 8. Pederson pulled a solo shot just inside the right field foul pole in the eighth off Eric Cerantola.<\/p>\n
The Rangers struck for four two-out runs in the first inning with the aid of two Royals throwing errors. The inning included a two-run single by Ezequiel Duran, the first of two hits for Texas\u2019 shortstop while Corey Seager is on the injured list.<\/p>\n
Kolek, a Houston native who pitched three seasons for Texas A&M, gave up six runs, four earned, in five innings.<\/p>\n
Kansas City is a major league worst 2-13 in games against left-handed starters.<\/p>\n
Nimmo extended his on-base streak to a season-best 12 games.<\/p>\n
Saturday\u2019s middle game of the series will match Royals RHP Seth Lugo (2-4, 3.74 ERA) and Rangers RHP Kumar Rocker (2-5, 3.96.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 MacKenzie Gore continued his home-field mastery this season with 6 1\/3 shutout innings, Brandon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,32775,40381,113250,39233,96229,63983,57463,57328,113254,23681,202,196,42094,87087,82673,942,113249,113252,84520,113253,113251],"class_list":["post-317041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-brandon-nimmo","tag-corey-seager","tag-eric-cerantola","tag-ezequiel-duran","tag-gavin-collyer","tag-joc-pederson","tag-kumar-rocker","tag-mackenzie-gore","tag-nicky-lopez","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40787-ap-kansas-sports-only","tag-product-40795-ap-missouri-sports-only","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-rangers-royals-score","tag-seth-lugo","tag-stephen-kolek","tag-steven-cruz","tag-vinnie-pasqantino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}