{"id":841445,"date":"2026-09-09T06:30:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/841445\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T06:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:30:38","slug":"diamondbacks-beat-royals-5-3-in-11-innings-as-corbin-burnes-makes-return-after-tommy-john-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/841445\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks beat Royals 5-3 in 11 innings as Corbin Burnes makes return after Tommy John surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Corbin Burnes made his return after a 15-month recovery from Tommy John surgery, Lourdes Gurriel Jr. hit a go-ahead RBI triple, and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Kansas City Royals 5-3 in 11 innings on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Burnes threw three innings and 57 pitches in his first start since June 2025<\/a>. He struck out two and allowed two hits and two walks.<\/p>\n

Arizona (78-68) has won five of its last six games to hold onto the third Wild Card spot. <\/p>\n

In the 11th, Ryan Waldschmidt advanced Ildemaro Vargas to third on a leadoff sacrifice bunt, and Gurriel drove in Vargas after Matthew Lugo missed the catch in right-center field. The play<\/a> was scored a triple.<\/p>\n

Ketel Marte added an insurance run in the 11th with a sacrifice fly, and Ryan Walston (1-0) earned his first career win and save in two innings of work.<\/p>\n

The game was scoreless until the eighth, when Perdomo hit a sacrifice fly to bring in the game\u2019s first run. Tim Tawa added a solo homer in the ninth, his 10th.<\/p>\n

John Rave answered for the Royals with a two-out, two-run homer in the ninth, and both teams scored one run in the 10th.<\/p>\n

Michael Wacha struck out four in six innings and allowed three hits and four walks, picking up his fourth straight quality start for the Royals. Anthony Gose (1-1) took the loss.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Daniel Lynch IV (4-5, 3.51 ERA) takes the mound for the Royals in the series finale Wednesday against RHP Merrill Kelly (9-13, 5.06).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

See AP\u2019s full MLB coverage here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Corbin Burnes made his return after a 15-month recovery from Tommy John surgery,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[356203,1017,2317,3830,1558,105436,354465,78575,238234,4412,2321,10002,15961,47123,318862,38794,70520,6747,363,2008,9602,229472,356204,99,106105,2012],"class_list":["post-841445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-anthony-gose","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-az-state-wire","tag-baseball","tag-corbin-burnes","tag-daniel-lynch","tag-ildemaro-vargas","tag-john-rave","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-ketel-marte","tag-ks-state-wire","tag-lourdes-gurriel","tag-matthew-lugo","tag-merrill-kelly","tag-michael-wacha","tag-missouri","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-mo-state-wire","tag-ryan-waldschmidt","tag-ryan-walston","tag-sports","tag-tim-tawa","tag-tommy-john"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841445","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=841445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}