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Slugfest Goes Royals' Way

Posted on August 12, 2018 at 09:06 PM.

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ARLINGTON, Texas -- Paulo Orlando led off Friday's game with a solo home run, and the host Rangers answered with three home runs of their own throughout the game, but the Royals emerged victorious again with another impressive offensive performance in game two, beating Texas 8-6 at Globe Life Park.

Kansas City's (10-6) victory was a near mirror image to Thursday's series-opening win. Orlando's first-inning shot gave the Royals a 1-0 first-inning lead for the second straight day, and a big third inning made it 4-1 early, after Mike Napoli's solo shot in the second had tied it at 1-1, like the score was after the first on Thursday. But it was their three-run sixth that put them ahead for good and held off a Texas rally.

The Royals logged hit after hit after hit in the sixth, chasing starter Cole Hamels (0-3) and even teeing off against reliever Alex Claudio before the inning was finally ended. Then came back-to-back homers by Rougned Odor and Adrian Beltre in the bottom of the sixth, followed by a three-run seventh by the Rangers that made it 7-6. Texas had the tying run on second and just one out with Beltre at bat in the seventh, but Odor was picked off and one pitch later Beltre grounded out to end the threat.

The Rangers will try to salvage a split in the series starting Saturday with Tyson Ross on the mound against Jason Hammel.

Kansas City Royals at Texas Rangers
Apr 21, 2017	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Kansas City (10-6)	1	0	3	0	0	3	0	1	0	8	13	0
Texas (6-11)	0	1	0	0	0	2	3	0	0	6	13	0
W: Danny Duffy (2-1) L: Cole Hamels (0-3) S: Kelvin Herrera (6)

Kansas City Royals
HITTERS	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	HR	AVG
Paulo Orlando, RF	5	2	3	1	0	1	1	.250
Alcides Escobar, SS	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	.180
Lorenzo Cain, CF	4	2	2	1	0	0	0	.286
Eric Hosmer, 1B	4	1	2	2	0	0	0	.266
Alex Gordon, LF	4	2	2	1	0	0	0	.333
Salvador Perez, C	4	0	1	1	0	1	0	.236
Mike Moustakas, 3B	4	0	1	1	0	0	0	.263
Cheslor Cuthbert, DH	4	0	1	1	0	1	0	.381
Whit Merrifield, 2B	4	1	1	0	0	1	0	.315
TEAM TOTALS	38	8	13	8	0	4	1
BATTING: 2B: Hosmer (6), Perez (3) HR: Orlando (2) RBI: Moustakas (13), Cain (8), Hosmer 2 (16), Perez (8), Gordon (12), Cuthbert (1), Orlando (2) GIDP: Escobar, Merrifield
BASERUNNING: SB: Cain (3)

Texas Rangers
HITTERS	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	HR	AVG
Delino DeShields Jr., LF	5	1	3	0	0	0	0	.317
Elvis Andrus, SS	5	1	1	1	0	0	0	.311
Rougned Odor, 2B	4	1	2	3	0	0	1	.377
Adrian Beltre, 3B	4	1	1	1	0	0	1	.152
Jonathan Lucroy, C	4	0	2	0	0	0	0	.293
Carlos Gomez, CF	4	0	1	0	0	2	0	.230
Mike Napoli, 1B	4	1	1	1	0	1	1	.233
Shin-Soo Choo, RF	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	.339
Robinson Chirinos, DH	3	0	1	0	0	1	0	.125
Nomar Mazara, PR-DH	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.327
TEAM TOTALS	38	6	13	6	0	4	3
BATTING: 2B: Odor (3), Lucroy (2) HR: Beltre (3), Napoli (3), Odor (7) RBI: Beltre (5), Napoli (6), Odor 3 (12), Andrus (10)
BASERUNNING: SB: Gomez (2), DeShields Jr. (4) CS: DeShields Jr. (4)

Kansas City Royals
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Danny Duffy (W, 2-1)	6.1	10	5	5	0	2	3	4.94
Jason Vargas	0.0	2	1	1	0	0	0	3.31
Seth Maness (H, 3)	0.2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00
Joakim Soria (H, 4)	1.0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0.00
Kelvin Herrera (S, 6)	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.29
TEAM TOTALS	9.0	13	6	6	0	4	3

Texas Rangers
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Cole Hamels (L, 0-3)	5.0	6	5	5	0	1	1	4.68
Alex Claudio	2.1	7	3	3	0	0	0	5.87
Jake Diekman	0.2	0	0	0	0	1	0	4.50
Jeremy Jeffress	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	0	4.76
TEAM TOTALS	9.0	13	8	8	0	4	1
PITCHING: WP: Hamels (3)