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KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI – MAY 22: Mitch Garver #18 of the Seattle Mariners hits a two-run home run against the Kansas City Royals in the seventh inning at Kauffman Stadium on May 22, 2026 in Kansas City, Missouri.\u00a0 (Ed Zurga \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Mitch Garver hit a two-run homer, Logan Gilbert threw 5 2\/3 sharp innings and the Seattle Mariners beat the Kansas City Royals 2-0 on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Cole Young walked to open the seventh inning before Garver squared up a 1-0 sinker from Nick Mears (2-3) and launched a 406-foot shot<\/a> to left field.<\/p>\n Gilbert surrendered two hits and struck out six while walking four. Eduard Bazardo (3-2) followed with 1 1\/3 hitless innings, Matt Brash worked out of trouble in the eighth and Andr\u00e9s Mu\u00f1oz pitched the ninth for his ninth save.<\/p>\n The teams combined for nine hits. Julio Rodr\u00edguez doubled and singled for Seattle, and Garver also went 2 for 4.<\/p>\n Kansas City’s Noah Cameron struck out a career-high eight while allowing four hits in six innings, his first scoreless start in nine outings this season.<\/p>\n The Royals have lost five straight at home and have scored nine runs in their last six games.<\/p>\n Up next <\/p>\n RHP George Kirby (5-3, 3.45 ERA) takes the mound for the Mariners while RHP Stephen Kolek (2-0, 4.24) gets the start for the Royals on Saturday.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this story came from The Associated Press.<\/p>\n MORE MARINERS NEWS FROM FOX 13 SEATTLE <\/p>\n J.P. Crawford open to playing third base for Seattle Mariners<\/a><\/p>\n Home runs from Jhonny Pereda, Randy Arozarena carry Seattle Mariners to 5-4 win over White Sox<\/a><\/p>\n Seattle Mariners manage one hit, allow two runs in 9th in 2-1 loss to White Sox<\/a><\/p>\n How to catch yourself a single with Seattle Mariners speed dating<\/a><\/p>\n Bryan Woo tosses six scoreless, Colt Emerson homers to lead Seattle Mariners 6-1 over White Sox<\/a><\/p>\n To get the best local news, weather and sports in Seattle for free, sign up for the daily\u00a0FOX Seattle Newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n Download the free FOX LOCAL app for mobile in the\u00a0Apple App Store<\/a> or\u00a0Google Play Store<\/a> for live Seattle news, top stories, weather updates and more local and national news.<\/p>\n Seattle Mariners<\/a>Sports<\/a>MLB<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI – MAY 22: Mitch Garver #18 of the Seattle Mariners hits a two-run home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[5463,363,99],"class_list":["post-660244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mariners","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660244","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=660244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}