Oakland Athletics at Kansas City Royals

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Oakland Athletics

19-28, 9-15 Away

Final
2 - 6

Kansas City Royals

27-19, 16-8 Home

Ragans throws 7 scoreless innings as Royals win 6-2 and extend A's skid to season-high 6

Ragans (3-3) walked two and struck out seven, rebounding from a 9-3 loss at the Los Angeles Angels when he allowed seven runs and eight hits. He has three scoreless starts of at least six innings this season.

Chris Stratton and Matt Sauers finished the four-hitter, the ninth time Oakland has been held to four hits or fewer.

Oakland has been outscored 36-6 during its losing streak, which dropped the A's to 19-28.

“We just need to continue to grind at-bats out and find some offense,” Oakland manager Mark Kotsay said.

Kansas City went ahead in the first when Salvador Perez hit a two-out, run-scoring infield single. Perez was called out by first base umpire Ryan Additon, but a video review ruled Perez beat the throw from third baseman Brett Harris.

Massey hit a two-run homer off Austin Adams and Maikel Garcia a three-run drive against Brandon Bielak in a five-run sixth.

“We were only up 1-0 going into that inning so that was huge,” Royals manager Matt Quatraro said. “Massey gets the homer and things went from there, it was a huge spot in the game.”

Mitch Spence (3-2) gave up one run and five hits in 4 2/3 innings.

“I thought he did a nice job tonight,” Kotsay said. “To only give up one run over 4 2/3 innings and throw 75 pitches, that's a great outing and what was expected. I thought he'd be able to do that.”

Shea Langeliers hit a two-run homer off Sauers in the ninth, his 10th this season.

ROSTER MOVES

Oakland activated Bielak, a day after he was acquired from Houston for cash. LHP Hogan Harris was optioned to Triple-A Las Vegas.

RHP Ross Stripling (1-7, 4.98 ERA) takes the mound for Oakland on Saturday while Kansas City starts RHP Seth Lugo (6-1, 1.66),

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Matchup Prediction

Royals: 67.6%

Athletics: 32.4%

*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Gelof grounded out to shortstop.
	9th Inning	Langeliers homered to center (421 feet), Toro scored.
	9th Inning	Rooker struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Bleday fouled out to left.
	9th Inning	Toro singled to right.
	9th Inning	Sauer relieved Stratton

Statistics

OAK		KC
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
7	Ground Balls	13
10	Strikeouts	5
2	Runs Batted In	6
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
4	Hits	11
0	Stolen Bases	0
3	Walks	3
0	Catcher Interference	0
2	Runs	6
1	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
29	At Bats	35
1	Home Runs	2
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
10	Runners Left On Base	18
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	3
12	Fly Balls	17
1	Caught Stealing	0
134	Pitches	144
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	0
8	Total Bases	20
32	Plate Appearances	38
162.0	Projected Home Runs	324.0
2	Extra Base Hits	5
0.9	Runs Created	7.2
.138	Batting Average	.314
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.276	Slugging Percentage	.571
.207	Secondary Average	.343
.219	On Base Percentage	.368
.495	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.940
0.6	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.8
0.9	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	8.1
17.0	Batter Rating	47.0
29.0	At Bats Per Home Run	17.5
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
4.19	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.79
.138	Isolated Power	.257
0.30	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.60
.094	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.079
.069	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.029
4.0	Runs Produced	12.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.4	Patience Ratio	0.6
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.3
66.8	MLB Rating	95.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0