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Kansas City Royals at Tampa Bay Rays

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Kansas City Royals
22-56, 12-28 Away
Final
1 - 3
Tampa Bay Rays
54-27, 34-10 Home

Siri homers as MLB-leading Rays salvage spilt of 4-game series with 3-1 win over Royals

The Rays are 6-7 over their last 13 games, including a four-game split with Oakland, which has the worst record in the majors.

Still, Tampa Bay reached the halfway point of the season at 54-27, with a 4 1/2 game lead over Baltimore in the AL East.

“It's awesome,” Rays starter Tyler Glasnow said. “It's great. We've been playing really well all season and we've maintained it throughout the season as well.”

Kansas City dropped to 22-56 and is winless in 11 consecutive series, the third-longest stretch during the same season in franchise history.

“Tough game,” Royals manager Matt Quatraro said. “We were in it right to the end.

The game was delayed approximately 15 minutes in the fifth inning when plate umpire and crew chief Mark Wegner took a hard foul tip by Tampa Bay’s Randy Arozarena off the mask. After being checked out behind the plate, Wegner walked off the field with a Rays’ trainer.

Siri opened the seventh inning by drawing a walk from Taylor Clarke (1-2). Yandy Díaz got his fourth hit of the game on an infield single that deflected off the Royals reliever to shortstop Bobby Witt Jr., who was charged with an error for an errant throw to first that put runners on second and third.

Siri scored on Clarke's wild pitch before Franco's sacrifice fly made it 3-1.

Franco had a homer and two RBI on Saturday, his first game after being benched two days for how he is handled frustrating situations this season.

Siri opened the scoring with a solo homer in the third-inning, He has hit 12 of his 14 homers since May 7..

After Colin Poche (5-2) worked a scoreless eighth, and Pete Fairbanks got three outs in the ninth to earn his eighth save.

Both staters pitched well, but didn't figure in the decision.

Kansas City's Daniel Lynch gave up one run and six hits over six innings. The lefty was coming off a start Tuesday at Detroit in which he allowed one hit in seven scoreless innings.

“Daniel threw the ball well,” Quatraro said. “They made him work. Made really tough pitches, got soft contact.”

Glasnow, making his sixth start after beginning the season on the injured list with an oblique injury, gave up one run, four hits and struck out a season-high 12 in five innings. The 6-foot-8 right-hander struck out the side in the first, third and fifth innings.

“Gasoline,” Siri said through a translator about Glasnow's stuff.

The Royals struck out 17 times overall.

Kansas City tied it at 1 in the fourth when Witt singled, swiped second for the Royals' third stolen base in the game and scored on Maikel Garcia's base hit.

TRAINER'S ROOM

Royals: LHP Ryan Yarbrough (facial fractures), hit by a 106.2 mph liner off the bat of Oakland's Ryan Noda on May 7, went four scoreless innings for Triple-A Omaha on Saturday in his second minor league start.

Rays: Ace Shane McClanahan (mid-back tightness) threw four minutes in the outfield and seven pitches off the mound and said it went good. His next start has been pushed back from Wednesday to Friday after leaving last Thursday's start in the fourth inning.

UP NEXT

Royals: RHP Brady Singer (4-7) and Cleveland RHP Gavin Williams (0-1) are Tuesday night's starters.

Rays:: RHP Taj Bradley (5-3) will face Arizona on Tuesday night.

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Matchup Prediction

Rays: 80.2%
Royals: 19.8%
*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

9th Inning Waters grounded out to shortstop.
9th Inning Olivares grounded out to first, Melendez to second.
9th Inning Garcia struck out looking.
9th Inning Melendez walked.
9th Inning Fairbanks relieved Adam
8th Inning Walls struck out swinging.

Statistics

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1 Games Played 1
1 Team Games Played 1
1 Hit By Pitch 0
7 Ground Balls 8
17 Strikeouts 5
1 Runs Batted In 2
0 Sacrifice Hit 0
4 Hits 7
3 Stolen Bases 1
3 Walks 3
0 Catcher Interference 0
1 Runs 3
0 Ground Into Double Play 0
0 Sacrifice Flies 1
30 At Bats 30
0 Home Runs 1
0 Grand Slam Home Runs 0
11 Runners Left On Base 16
0 Triples 0
0 Game Winning RBIs 0
0 Intentional Walks 1
0 Doubles 0
6 Fly Balls 18
0 Caught Stealing 0
157 Pitches 126
0 Games Started 0
0 Pinch At Bats 1
0 Pinch Hits 0
0.0 Player Rating 0.0
1 Is Qualified 1
1 Is Qualified In Steals 1
4 Total Bases 10
34 Plate Appearances 34
0.0 Projected Home Runs 162.0
0 Extra Base Hits 1
1.2 Runs Created 3.5
.133 Batting Average .233
.000 Pinch Hit Average .000
.133 Slugging Percentage .333
.200 Secondary Average .233
.235 On Base Percentage .294
.369 OBP Pct + SLG Pct .627
1.2 Ground To Fly Ball Ratio 0.4
1.2 Runs Created Per 27 Outs 3.9
11.0 Batter Rating 21.0
0.0 At Bats Per Home Run 30.0
1.00 Stolen Base Percentage 1.00
4.62 Pitches Per Plate Appearance 3.71
.000 Isolated Power .100
0.18 Walk To Strikeout Ratio 0.60
.088 Walks Per Plate Appearance .088
.067 Secondary Average Minus Batting Average .000
2.0 Runs Produced 5.0
1.0 Runs Ratio 0.7
0.2 Patience Ratio 0.4
0.3 Balls In Play Average 0.3
60.0 MLB Rating 75.3
0.0 Offensive Wins Above Replacement 0.0
0.0 Wins Above Replacement 0.0

Game Information

Tropicana Field

Location: St. Petersburg, Florida
Attendance: 18,442 | Capacity:

2024 American League Central Standings

TEAM W L PCT GB STRK
Cleveland 92 69 .571 - L2
Kansas City 86 76 .531 6.5 W1
Detroit 86 76 .531 6.5 L2
Minnesota 82 80 .506 10.5 L4
Chicago 41 121 .253 51.5 W2

2024 American League East Standings

TEAM W L PCT GB STRK
New York 94 68 .580 - W1
Baltimore 91 71 .562 3 W3
Boston 81 81 .500 13 W1
Tampa Bay 80 82 .494 14 L1
Toronto 74 88 .457 20 L3
Full Standings