{"id":131442,"date":"2025-09-04T05:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T05:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/131442\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T05:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T05:04:08","slug":"angels-4-3-royals-sep-3-2025-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/131442\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels 4-3 Royals (Sep 3, 2025) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — \u2014 Jo Adell<\/a> homered and drove in every run for the Los Angeles Angels<\/a> in their 4-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals<\/a> on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Adell hit a go-ahead homer in the sixth inning for the second consecutive game. His three-run shot to center field on the first pitch he saw from reliever John Schreiber<\/a> gave the Angels a 3-2 lead in this one. <\/p>\n

Yo\u00e1n Moncada, aboard on a single when Adell went deep, doubled off Lucas Erceg<\/a> (6-4) in the eighth before scoring on Adell\u2019s two-out single for a 4-3 advantage. Adell\u2019s 33 homers and 90 RBI are career highs.<\/p>\n

Reid Detmers<\/a> struck out two in the ninth for his third save.<\/p>\n

Angels star Mike Trout<\/a> sat out again after getting scratched from the lineup Tuesday night because of a skin infection<\/a> on his left arm.<\/p>\n

Salvador Perez<\/a> had a one-out double in the seventh for the Royals off winning pitcher Robert Stephenson<\/a> (1-0). It was his 33rd double this season and the 625th extra-base hit of his career, tying Frank White for third on the franchise list. Adam Frazier<\/a> doubled to tie it at 3.<\/p>\n

Mike Yastrzemski<\/a> had a sacrifice fly in the first inning to help the Royals take a 2-0 lead against Caden Dana<\/a>, making his first start this season and the fourth of his career. Dana allowed two hits and one earned run over five innings.<\/p>\n

Royals rookie Ryan Bergert<\/a> gave up one hit and left with a 2-0 lead after issuing a leadoff walk to Zach Neto<\/a> in the sixth. Bergert struck out six and walked three.<\/p>\n

Kansas City (70-69) has lost three in a row and seven of 11. <\/p>\n

Key moment <\/p>\n

Kyle Isbel<\/a> was on second base in the eighth when Angels reliever Andrew Chafin<\/a> struck out Bobby Witt Jr<\/a>. for the second out. Chafin then fanned Vinnie Pasquantino<\/a> in a 12-pitch duel to keep it 4-3.<\/p>\n

Key stat <\/p>\n

The Angels have won the first two games of the series, improving to 162-144 at Kaufmann Stadium.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Angels RHP Kyle Hendricks<\/a> (6-9, 4.89 ERA) starts Thursday opposite Royals LHP Noah Cameron<\/a> (7-6, 2.92).<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. — \u2014 Jo Adell homered and drove in every run for the Los Angeles Angels…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-131442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}