{"id":594862,"date":"2026-04-20T03:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T03:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/594862\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T03:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T03:41:13","slug":"yankees-7-0-royals-apr-19-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/594862\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees 7-0 Royals (Apr 19, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK — \u2014 Aaron Judge<\/a> hit a two-run homer in the first inning, Ben Rice<\/a> went deep for the fourth straight game in the second and the New York Yankees<\/a> beat the reeling Kansas City Royals<\/a> 7-0 to complete a three-game sweep on Sunday following a long rain delay.<\/p>\n

Ryan Weathers<\/a> (1-2) bounced back from allowing four homers to the <\/a>Los Angeles Angels<\/a> on Tuesday and permitted five hits in 7 1\/3 innings for his first win with the Yankees. The left-hander struck out eight and walked one.<\/p>\n

Trent Grisham<\/a> added a three-run homer in the fifth for the Yankees, who went deep nine times in the series and won the final two games by a combined 20-4 margin after their previous five victories were decided in the final at-bat.<\/p>\n

After the start was pushed back 2 hours, 45 minutes, Judge gave New York a 2-0 lead against Cole Ragans<\/a> (0-4) by belting a first-pitch curveball onto the netting above Monument Park in center field. Judge\u2019s 425-foot drive was his sixth homer in eight games and fifth in the first inning this season.<\/p>\n

Rice batted leadoff for the first time this year and gave the Yankees a 4-0 lead by sending a fastball into the right-field seats for a solo shot. It was his eighth homer, one behind Judge for the team lead, and his third off a left-handed pitcher this season.<\/p>\n

Judge and Rice became the third set of Yankees teammates with at least eight homers each through the first 22 games of a season. Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra did it in 1956 before Judge and Anthony Rizzo<\/a> also achieved the feat in 2022.<\/p>\n

Ragans tied a career high by allowing seven runs in 4 1\/3 innings. The left-hander also issued a career-high eight walks and allowed four hits.<\/p>\n

Kansas City lost its seventh straight and for the 10th time in 12 games. The Royals also lost their 11th consecutive game to the Yankees since Game 2 of their 2024 AL Division Series.<\/p>\n

Salvador Perez<\/a> was back in Kansas City\u2019s lineup after getting a rare day off Saturday and went 0 for 4.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Royals: RHP Seth Lugo<\/a> (1-1, 1.48 ERA) opposes RHP Kyle Bradish<\/a> (1-2, 5.49) in the opener of a three-game series against the visiting Orioles on Monday.<\/p>\n

Yankees: RHP Luis Gil<\/a> (0-1, 7.00 ERA) opens a three-game series at rival Boston on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK — \u2014 Aaron Judge hit a two-run homer in the first inning, Ben Rice went deep…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-594862","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\/594862","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=594862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}