Tampa Bay Rays at Kansas City Royals

· Doubleheader - Game 1

Tampa Bay Rays

59-35, 24-20 Away

Final
6 - 1

Kansas City Royals

26-66, 13-32 Home

Siri homers twice and Rays beat Royals 6-1 in doubleheader opener

A day after the series opener was rained out, Tyler Glasnow (3-3) gave up six hits and struck out six as the AL East-leading Rays won their second straight after a season-high seven-game losing streak. Glasnow had been 0-3 in four starts since a June 14 win at Oakland.

“I felt good all game,” Glasnow said. “I kind of felt off to start, but as the innings went on I got a rhythm. It was a battle today and ended up being a good game.”

Kansas City has lost seven of eight, dropping to 26-66. Salvador Perez had four hits for the Royals, one shy of his career high. His fifth-inning double made him the sixth Kansas City player with 500 extra-base hits.

Siri homered in the third off Alec Marsh (0-3) and the ninth off Nick Wittgren for his seventh career multihomer game. Siri has 18 home runs this season.

“I know I've been striking out a lot, but everyone knows that. It felt good to connect on those two," Siri said.

Cole Ragans (2-3) was to start the second game for the Royals and Shawn Armstrong (0-0) for the Rays.

Francisco Mejía gave the Rays a 2-0 lead in the fifth when he homered off Marsh, who allowed two runs and five hits in six innings with 11 strikeouts and one walk. The strikeouts were a high for a Royals pitcher in his first three big league starts.

“Getting strikeouts the last two games were difficult for me,” Marsh said. “I thought the attack mode was good all game. I think mindset wise I knew to keep attacking and knowing I needed to make a pitch with two strikes.”

Kansas City's Collin Snider opened the eighth with 13 consecutive balls. Luke Raley followed with a two-run single and Josh Lowe hit a sacrifice fly.

Bobby Witt Jr. hit a 424-foot homer in the fifth.

RHP Zach Eflin (10-4, 3.25) starts Sunday's series finale for the Rays and RHP Bailey Singer (5-8, 5.80) for the Royals.

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Matchup Prediction

Royals: 26.2%

Rays: 73.8%

*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Lopez grounded out to shortstop.
	9th Inning	Massey struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Waters grounded out to first.
	9th Inning	Arozarena grounded out to third.
	9th Inning	Franco singled to left.
	9th Inning	B. Lowe popped out to second.

Statistics

TB		KC
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
8	Ground Balls	13
13	Strikeouts	10
6	Runs Batted In	1
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
8	Hits	7
1	Stolen Bases	2
4	Walks	2
0	Catcher Interference	0
6	Runs	1
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
1	Sacrifice Flies	0
34	At Bats	34
3	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
9	Runners Left On Base	14
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	1
14	Fly Balls	11
0	Caught Stealing	0
147	Pitches	131
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	1
18	Total Bases	11
39	Plate Appearances	36
486.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
4	Extra Base Hits	2
6.1	Runs Created	3.1
.235	Batting Average	.206
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.529	Slugging Percentage	.324
.441	Secondary Average	.235
.308	On Base Percentage	.250
.837	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.574
0.6	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	1.2
6.1	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	3.1
44.0	Batter Rating	18.0
11.3	At Bats Per Home Run	34.0
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.77	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.64
.294	Isolated Power	.118
0.31	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.20
.103	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.056
.206	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.029
12.0	Runs Produced	2.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.6	Patience Ratio	0.4
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.3
88.8	MLB Rating	70.8
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0