Houston Astros at Kansas City Royals

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Houston Astros

13-12, 4-6 Away

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Kansas City Royals

13-14, 10-4 Home

Seth Lugo shuts down Astros to lead Royals to fifth straight win

Royals notch a pair of sac flies vs. the Astros

The Royals have now won five straight games after snapping a six-game losing streak.

Coming off a double-header on Thursday, the Royals needed Lugo to go deep in the game, and he delivered. Lugo (2-3) yielded three hits with a walk and eight strikeouts. Lucas Erceg, who got his first save, pitched a 1-2-3 ninth.

Hayden Wesneski (1-2) took the loss, allowing two runs on eight hits in five-plus innings.

Bobby Witt had three hits for Kansas City.

Both starters were on point early on. Lugo needed only 53 pitches to get through five one-hit innings, even with six strikeouts. Wesneski was nearly as good, allowing just one run on six hits through five innings.

Drew Waters led off the fifth with his second double of the game, moved to third on a sacrifice bunt by Freddy Fermin and scored on a sacrifice fly by Kyle Isbel.

The Royals added another run in the sixth on another sacrifice fly. Vinnie Pasquantino led off with a bloop single and went to second on another bloop hit by Maikel Garcia. Michael Massey sacrificed the runners to second and third. Pasquantino scored on a flyout to center by Hunter Renfroe.

Key moment The Astros got a lead-off hit from Victor Caratini in the eighth inning, bringing up the tying run with no outs. But Lugo got Cam Smith to ground into a 6-4-3 double play, squashing the rally.

Key stat Witt extended the longest active hitting streak in the majors to a career-high 17 games and is batting .371 (23 of 62) in that span.

Up next The Astros and Royals will play Game 2 of a three-game series Saturday evening. Houston will send LHP Framber Valdez (1-2, 4.50 ERA) to the mound to face Kansas City's RHP Michael Wacha (0-3, 4.15 ERA).

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Paredes struck out looking.
	9th Inning	Alvarez flied out to right.
	9th Inning	Altuve popped out to second.
	9th Inning	Erceg relieved Lugo
	8th Inning	Garcia popped out to first.
	8th Inning	Pasquantino lined into double play, second to first, Witt Jr. doubled off first.

Statistics

HOU		KC
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
8	Ground Balls	10
9	Strikeouts	3
0	Runs Batted In	2
1	Sacrifice Hit	2
3	Hits	9
0	Stolen Bases	0
1	Walks	0
0	Catcher Interference	0
0	Runs	2
1	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	2
28	At Bats	27
0	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
7	Runners Left On Base	10
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	2
12	Fly Balls	18
0	Caught Stealing	1
107	Pitches	113
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
4	Total Bases	11
30	Plate Appearances	31
0.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
1	Extra Base Hits	2
-0.7	Runs Created	3.4
.107	Batting Average	.333
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.143	Slugging Percentage	.407
.071	Secondary Average	.037
.138	On Base Percentage	.310
.281	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.718
0.7	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.6
-0.7	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	4.0
5.0	Batter Rating	21.0
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.57	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.65
.036	Isolated Power	.074
0.11	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.00
.033	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.000
-.036	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	-.296
0.0	Runs Produced	4.0
0.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.2	Patience Ratio	0.4
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.4
58.0	MLB Rating	78.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0