{"id":673488,"date":"2026-05-30T04:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T04:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/673488\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T04:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T04:39:10","slug":"rangers-roll-past-royals-as-gore-dominates-again-at-globe-life-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/673488\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers roll past Royals as Gore dominates again at Globe Life Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MacKenzie Gore continued his home\u2011field dominance with 6 1\/3 scoreless innings, and Brandon Nimmo, Nicky Lopez and Joc Pederson homered as the Texas Rangers beat the Kansas City Royals 9-1 on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Gore (4-4) allowed four hits and one walk. The left\u2011hander improved to 3\u20130 in five starts at Globe Life Field this season with a 2.08 ERA; he is 1-4 with a 5.81 ERA on the road.<\/p>\n<p>The Royals have lost four straight and 14 of their past 17, falling a season\u2011worst 13 games under .500.<\/p>\n<p>Vinnie Pasquantino ended Kansas City&#8217;s streak of 23 consecutive scoreless innings with an RBI single in the ninth off Gavin Collyer.<\/p>\n<p>Nimmo hit a two\u2011run homer in the fifth off Stephen Kolek (3-1), who was coming off his second career shutout. Lopez, a former Royal who joined Texas on Tuesday, hit a two\u2011run homer in the sixth off Steven Cruz for his first Rangers hit. Pederson added a solo shot inside the right\u2011field foul pole in the eighth off Eric Cerantola.<\/p>\n<p>Texas scored four two\u2011out runs in the first inning, helped by two Royals throwing errors. Ezequiel Duran delivered a two\u2011run single and finished with two hits, while Corey Seager remains on the injured list.<\/p>\n<p>Kolek, a Houston native and former Texas A&amp;M pitcher, allowed six runs \u2014 four earned \u2014 in five innings.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City fell to a major\u2011league\u2011worst 2-13 against left\u2011handed starters. Nimmo extended his on\u2011base streak to a season\u2011best 12 games.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s game will feature Royals RHP Seth Lugo (2-4, 3.74 ERA) against Rangers RHP Kumar Rocker (2-5, 3.96).<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MacKenzie Gore continued his home\u2011field dominance with 6 1\/3 scoreless innings, and Brandon Nimmo, Nicky Lopez and Joc&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[2321,13090,363,99,2330],"class_list":["post-673488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673488","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=673488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}