{"id":569572,"date":"2026-04-07T10:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/569572\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T10:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:16:07","slug":"royals-beat-guardians-4-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/569572\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals beat Guardians 4-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0Carter Jensen and Jonathan India homered, Michael Wacha allowed one run in seven innings and the Kansas City Royals defeated the Cleveland Guardians 4-2 on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>What You Need To Know<\/p>\n<p>All-Star third baseman Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez became Cleveland&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/guardians-ramirez-2809a8042eae6e2b832dd888aab8fb7d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">franchise leader in games played<\/a>\u00a0with 1,620<br \/>\n<br \/>Steven Kwan and Brayan Rocchio had solo shots for the Guardians, who have dropped two of three<br \/>\n<br \/>The Royals \u2014 who have won two of three \u2014 tied it in the fourth by capitalizing on a Guardians mistake<\/p>\n<p>All-Star third baseman Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez became Cleveland&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/guardians-ramirez-2809a8042eae6e2b832dd888aab8fb7d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">franchise leader in games played<\/a>\u00a0with 1,620. Ram\u00edrez, who went 0 for 2 with two walks, surpassed Terry Turner&#8217;s nearly 108-year-old mark.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Kwan and Brayan Rocchio had solo shots for the Guardians, who have dropped two of three.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City took a 2-1 lead in the sixth when Jensen lined a fastball by Peyton Pallette (0-1) over the wall in right field for a solo homer. India added a two-run shot in the eighth to extend the advantage to three.<\/p>\n<p>Wacha (1-0) allowed only three hits with three walks and three strikeouts in his second start of the season. The right-hander threw six shutout innings March 28 at Atlanta but was scratched from his scheduled April 3 outing against Milwaukee due to illness.<\/p>\n<p>Lucas Erceg earned his third save with a scoreless ninth.<\/p>\n<p>Wacha&#8217;s only costly mistake came in the third inning when Kwan drove a fastball down the right-field line to put Cleveland up 1-0. Wacha threw 102 pitches, including 62 strikes. He is the second Royals starter this season to go over 100 pitches.<\/p>\n<p>The Royals \u2014 who have won two of three \u2014 tied it in the fourth by capitalizing on a Guardians mistake. Jensen struck out, which would have ended the inning, but got on base due to Tanner Bibee&#8217;s wild pitch. India followed with a looping base hit to right field to drive in Vinnie Pasquantino.<\/p>\n<p>Rocchio homered to left-center in the eighth.<\/p>\n<p>Up next\n<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City lefty Noah Cameron (1-0, 1.80 ERA) opposes Cleveland RHP Gavin Williams (1-1, 2.25) on Tuesday. The game has been moved up to an afternoon start due to forecasted frigid temperatures at night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0Carter Jensen and Jonathan India homered, Michael Wacha allowed one run in seven innings and the Kansas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[41445,2722,2724,852,363,3,6454,90616,7739,99,452],"class_list":{"0":"post-569572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-cleveland","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-ohio","15":"tag-ohio-cleveland-guardians","16":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569572","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=569572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}