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Cole Ragans struck out 10 batters over a career-best 7 2/3 innings and Salvador Perez hit a two-run homer as the visiting Kansas City Royals salvaged the finale of their three-game series against the Cleveland Guardians with a 4-2 victory on Sunday afternoon.It was the third straight game that Ragans struck out 10 or more batters, joining Kevin Appier (1996) as the only pitchers in Royals history to accomplish that feat. Ragans (1-0), who struck out five in a row over the fourth and fifth innings, retired 18 of the last 19 batters he faced and didn't issue a walk.Carlos Estevez struck out three after yielding a leadoff single to Steven Kwan in the bottom of the ninth to pick up his fifth save.Maikel Garcia went 3-for-4 with a two-RBI double and Kyle Isbel also had three hits and scored a run for Kansas City, which snapped a two-game losing streak.Daniel Schneemann doubled and drove in a run for Cleveland, which had a five-game win streak snapped. Ben Lively (0-2) suffered the loss, allowing four runs on seven hits over six innings. He walked two and struck out five.Cleveland took a 2-0 lead in the second inning when Schneemann lined a two-out double to the wall in left-center, driving in Jhonkensy Noel, who had singled. Schneemann also came around to score on the play when Bobby Witt Jr.'s wild relay throw to the plate went to the backstop.

Luis Ortiz struck out a career-high 10 over 5 2/3 innings and Gabriel Arias homered for a second straight game as the Cleveland Guardians won their fifth straight with a 6-3 victory Saturday night over the visiting Kansas City Royals.Acquired from Pittsburgh in December, Ortiz (1-2) entered Saturday with an 8.44 ERA from his first two starts. But the right-hander was stellar in his home debut as he yielded only two walks and one hit -- Vinnie Pasquantino's fourth-inning homer.Meanwhile, Arias clubbed an opposite-field solo homer in the sixth for his second hit and RBI of the night for the Guardians, who have won five straight to start 5-0 at home for the first time since 2002. Arias has homered three times versus Kansas City in 2025.Cleveland owns a 4-1 record against the Royals this season while outscoring them 29-13.Kansas City's Michael Lorenzen (1-2) gave up three runs and seven hits over 5 2/3 innings. Pasquantino had three of the six hits for the Royals, who fanned 15 times Saturday but consoled themselves with two runs off Emmanuel Clase in the ninth.The Guardians answered in the bottom of the fourth. Carlos Santana reached on a fielder's choice, went to second when Lorenzen walked Kyle Manzardo and advanced to third on Nolan Jones' long fly ball. He finally came home via Arias' infield single.

Gabriel Arias clubbed a fourth-inning, three-run homer for one of his three hits, and five Cleveland pitchers held the visiting Kansas City Royals to five hits, as the Guardians won their fourth straight, 7-0 on Friday night.After going 0-for-14 in his previous four games, Arias showed off his power against Kansas City's Kris Bubic (2-1), who had not allowed an earned run in his first two 2025 starts. Arias provided more than enough offense for the Guardians to win again fresh off a sweep of the Chicago White Sox.Angel Martinez also had three hits, plus a sacrifice fly, which along with RBI singles from Steven Kwan and Carlos Santana highlighted a four-run eighth inning for Cleveland, which improved to 3-1 against the Royals this season.The Guardians' Tanner Bibee yielded three hits, walked four and struck out four while lasting just 4 2/3 innings. Cleveland's Tim Herrin (2-0), Cade Smith, Hunter Gaddis and Tristan McKenzie combined to allow two hits, a walk and strike out three.Bobby Witt Jr. had two hits and walked twice for Kansas City, which won four of five entering the opener of a 10-game road trip, but has been held to five runs over the last four contests and has been shut out twice during that stretch.

Bobby Witt Jr. drove in the go-ahead run with a sacrifice fly in the seventh inning as the Kansas City Royals rallied for a 3-2 victory over the visiting Minnesota Twins on Thursday afternoon.Witt went 2-for-3 with a double, a stolen base and a run scored for Kansas City, which picked up its third win in the four-game series.Daniel Lynch IV (2-0) picked up the victory in relief, walking one and striking out two to close out the top of the seventh. Carlos Estevez pitched around a hit batter and a single during a scoreless ninth to pick up his fourth save.Ty France homered and Willi Castro and Edouard Julien each doubled for Minnesota, which suffered its fourth loss in the last five games. Cole Sands (1-1) suffered the loss, allowing two runs on two hits over 2/3 of an inning. He also hit a batter and struck out one.The Royals, held to just three hits in a 4-0 loss to Minnesota on Wednesday night, jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the first inning with three consecutive hits. Witt started the rally with a one-out single to left and advanced to second on a bloop single by Vinnie Pasquantino. Witt then scored on a single by Salvador Perez.Minnesota tied it up at 1-1 in the second inning when France led off with a 411-foot home run to left-center field.

Joe Ryan continued his mastery of Kansas City hitters by tossing two-hit ball over seven scoreless innings as the Minnesota Twins posted a 4-0 victory over the host Royals on Wednesday night.Ryan threw just 85 pitches, struck out four and walked none while improving to 7-0 in nine career starts against Kansas City. His ERA against the Royals dropped to 1.30.Griffin Jax replaced Ryan (1-1) and gave up one hit during a scoreless eighth inning. Jhoan Duran worked around a walk in the ninth to complete the three-hitter.Ty France went 3-for-4 with a homer and two RBIs and Matt Wallner also went deep for the Twins. Edouard Julien contributed an RBI single as Minnesota ended a three-game losing streak.The Twins also halted a six-game skid against the Royals dating back to last season. They will look for a split of this four-game series on Thursday.The Royals had just two at-bats with runners in scoring position while having a three-game winning streak stopped. Bobby Witt Jr. drew the team's lone walk with two out in the ninth before Vinnie Pasquantino grounded out to end the game.Witt's double off Ryan in the fourth was the Royals' lone extra-base hit.Kansas City's Seth Lugo (1-1) allowed two runs and five hits over 5 2/3 innings. He struck out six and walked three.

The Kansas City Royals placed outfielder/first baseman Mark Canha on the 10-day injured list on Wednesday because of a left abductor strain.In a corresponding move, the Royals recalled outfielder Drew Waters from Triple-A Omaha.Canha left Tuesday's home game against the Minnesota Twins in the sixth inning with left hip soreness after crashing into the left-field wall while attempting to catch Harrison Bader's drive in the fifth. Canha held Bader to an RBI single as the Royals won 2-1.Kansas City had acquired Canha on March 22 in a trade with Milwaukee for a player to be named later or cash. The Brewers had signed him as a free agent to a minor league contract on Feb. 24.Canha, 36, reportedly let the Brewers know he planned to exercise a clause in his contract that required the team to put him on the 40-man roster or allow him to become a free agent. As a result, the Brewers traded him to the Royals.After making his third start of the season, Canha is batting .357 (5-for-14) in seven games.

Bobby Witt Jr. scored twice and manufactured the decisive run in the bottom of the eighth inning to help the Kansas City Royals notch a 2-1 victory over the visiting Minnesota Twins on Tuesday night.Witt hit a slow tapper back to Minnesota reliever Griffin Jax (0-1) with one out in the eighth. Instead of an easy out, Jax airmailed the throw to first base and the ball rolled down the right-field line.Witt never stopped running and easily reached third base. Vinnie Pasquantino followed with a slow tapper to first base and Witt scored without a throw to give Kansas City the lead.Witt reached base three times on a double, a walk and the 8th-inning error. The Royals had just three hits while beating the Twins for the second straight night and sixth consecutive time overall.Kansas City reliever John Schreiber (1-0) got the win, giving up two hits in 1 2/3 innings, and Daniel Lynch IV recorded the final out for his first save.The Twins threatened in the top of the eighth as Ryan Jeffers and Trevor Larnach singled to put runners at the corners with one out. But Schreiber induced a Carlos Correa grounder to Witt, who began a 6-4-3 double play to end the inning.Correa had two of Minnesota's seven hits.Royals starter Cole Ragans struck out 11 in six innings. He gave up one run on four hits and walked none while throwing 96 pitches.

Kyle Isbel went 3-for-4 with a homer and two RBIs to lead the Kansas City Royals to a 4-2 victory over the visiting Minnesota Twins on Monday night.Michael Lorenzen pitched six solid innings and Vinny Pasquantino and Bobby Witt Jr. drove in one run apiece as the Royals won the opener of the four-game set.Willi Castro and Harrison Bader drove in runs for the Twins, who lost for the third time in their last four games. Bader and Matt Wallner had two hits apiece for Minnesota.Lorenzen (1-1) allowed one run and five hits. He struck out three and didn't walk a batter while helping Kansas City win for the third time in its last four games.Hunter Harvey and Lucas Erceg tossed scoreless innings before Royals closer Carlos Estevez ran into trouble in the ninth.Estevez hit Ty France on the elbow with one out then walked Castro with two out before Bader lined a single into left center to score France. Estevez then retired pinch hitter Edouard Julien on a grounder to second to record his third save.Minnesota's Simeon Woods Richardson (0-1) was touched up for four runs and eight hits over 5 2/3 innings. He struck out six and walked four.The Royals moved ahead to stay by pushing across two runs in the second inning.

Kris Bubic allowed one run over 6 2/3 innings to help the Kansas City Royals to a 4-1 win against the visiting Baltimore Orioles in the rubber game of their three-game series on Sunday afternoon.Bubic (2-0) surrendered five hits, struck out eight and walked one. The left-hander threw six shutout innings in his season debut last Monday, an 11-1 win against the Milwaukee Brewers.Bobby Witt Jr. singled, doubled and tripled, Salvador Perez, Mark Canha and Maikel Garcia each had two hits and a run scored, and Michael Massey drove in two runs for the Royals.Baltimore starter Cade Povich (0-1) allowed four runs and 13 hits over six innings. The left-hander struck out four and didn't walk a batter.Ryan Mountcastle had three of the five hits for the Orioles.Witt hit a fly ball to right-center field that center fielder Jorge Mateo misjudged for a triple with one out in the first. Vinnie Pasquantino then lined a sacrifice fly to right field for a 1-0 lead.Mateo was starting in center because Cedric Mullins was getting his first day off this season.Perez and Canha followed with singles before Massey delivered a two-out two-run double into the left-field corner to extend the lead to 3-0.

Tomoyuki Sugano took a shutout into the sixth inning as the Baltimore Orioles defeated the host Kansas City Royals 8-1 Saturday afternoon.Gary Sanchez, Tyler O'Neill and Jackson Holliday all drove in two runs as the Orioles halted a three-game losing streak that included an 8-2 setback in Friday night's series opener. Holliday finished with three of Baltimore's 12 hits, while O'Neill had the team's only two extra-base hits with a double and a triple.Sugano (1-1), in his second big-league appearance, gave up one run on five hits with four strikeouts and a walk in 5 1/3 innings. Bryan Baker, Keegan Akin and Matt Bowman combined for 3 2/3 innings of hitless relief, though Akin issued a pair of walks in his two innings on the mound.The Orioles scored their first six runs with two outs. They held a 6-0 lead courtesy of a fourth-run sixth inning.The Royals, who managed only five hits, scored on Bobby Witt Jr.'s solo home run in the sixth inning off Sugano. It was the All-Star slugger's first homer of the season.Royals starter Michael Wacha (0-2) struck out five in 5 2/3 innings, but he was charged with two of Baltimore's runs in the sixth while allowing four runs and six hits overall.

Maikel Garcia drove in three runs, Vinnie Pasquantino hit a three-run single and Seth Lugo pitched six solid innings to lead the Kansas City Royals to an 8-2 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on a rainy Friday night.Garcia delivered a go-ahead two-run single in the fourth inning and added an RBI double in the eighth for the Royals. Pasquantino and Salvador Perez also had two hits for Kansas City, which halted a two-game losing streak.Heston Kjerstad had two hits for the Orioles, who lost their third consecutive contest.Baltimore star Gunnar Henderson made his season debut was 1-for-4 with an error at shortstop. He missed the first seven games of the season due to a right intercostal strain.Lugo (1-0) allowed two runs (one earned) and five hits in six innings. He struck out two and walked one.Baltimore's Dean Kremer (1-1) gave up three runs (two earned) and eight hits over 4 1/3 innings. He struck out one and walked none.Kansas City moved ahead to stay in the fourth, and the inning started with Perez's hard-hit ball that Henderson couldn't handle for an error. One out later, Cavan Biggio singled to right and both runners moved up a base on Kremer's wild pitch.Garcia followed with a two-run single to score both runners and give the Royals a 3-2 edge.In the eighth inning, Mark Canha laced a double into the right field corner off Baltimore's Cionel Perez. Garcia followed with a double down the left field line to boost the Kansas City lead to two.

The Kansas City Royals acquired infielder/outfielder Nick Gordon from the Baltimore Orioles on Saturday for cash considerations.Gordon, who signed a minor league deal with the Orioles in the offseason, was 4-for-13 in four games at Triple-A Norfolk.The 29-year-old Gordon has played in the major leagues in each of the four previous seasons, batting .244 with 23 home runs and 112 RBIs in 338 games for the Minnesota Twins (2021-23) and Miami Marlins (2024).

Tanner Bibee allowed two hits over 5 2/3 shutout innings and Kyle Manzardo, Gabriel Arias and Daniel Schneemann each homered to lead the visiting Cleveland Indians to a 6-2 win over the Kansas City Royals in the rubber game of their three-game series on Sunday afternoon.Manzardo and Arias both finished with two hits, two RBIs and a run scored while Kwan went 3-for-5 with an RBI and a run scored. Schneemann reached base four times with three walks and a homer for the Guardians, who won their second straight game.Witt had an RBI single, Vinnie Pasquantino tripled and Maikel Garcia and Renfroe each doubled for Kansas City. Michael Wacha (0-1) took the loss, allowing one run on four hits over four innings. He walked four and struck out two.The Guardians extended the lead to 3-0 in the fifth off reliever Sam Long. Kwan led off with a single and scored one out later on Manzardo's second home run of the season, a 417-foot drive to right.

Bobby Witt Jr. smacked the tie-breaking double in the bottom of the seventh inning to help the Kansas City Royals notch a 4-3 victory over the visiting Cleveland Guardians on Saturday.Maikel Garcia hit a tying homer off Paul Sewald (0-1) to start the seventh as the Royals evened the series at one game apiece. Salvador Perez drove in two runs for Kansas City.Steven Kwan homered and scored twice for Cleveland.Guardians star Jose Ramirez left after 5 1/2 innings due to a sprained right wrist after sliding into second on a steal attempt. Ramirez initially stayed in the game before exiting.Daniel Lynch IV (1-0) pitched two perfect innings of relief for the Royals.Kansas City trailed 3-1 entering the bottom of the sixth before Kyle Isbel singled and Jonathan India walked to finish the outing of Cleveland's Gavin Williams.Cade Smith entered and retired the next two batters before Perez singled to left to bring Kansas City within one.After Garcia homered off the left-field foul pole to tie it in the seventh, Cavin Biggio singled and Dairon Blanco came in as a pinch-runner and stole second. Sewald retired the next two hitters before Hunter Gaddis came on and allowed Witt's go-ahead double.In the ninth, Kyle Manzardo walked for the Guardians before Carlos Estevez retired the next three hitters. Estevez struck out Lane Thomas looking to end it and record his first save.

Kyle Manzardo was 3-for-4 with a homer and four RBIs Thursday for the Cleveland Guardians, who overcame a blown save by All-Star closer Emmanuel Clase to beat the host Kansas City Royals, 7-4, in 10 innings in an Opening Day clash.Steven Kwan led off the 10th inning with the tie-breaking RBI double for the defending American League Central champion Guardians, who have won both their season openers under second-year manager Stephen Vogt.Manzardo began the Guardians' comeback from a 3-0 deficit in the fourth, when he tripled and scored on a sacrifice fly by Jhonkensy Noel. Jose Ramirez lofted another sacrifice fly in the fifth before Manzardo greeted Angel Zerpa by hitting a two-run homer on the first pitch he saw in the sixth.The 24-year-old, who made his first Opening Day roster this season, added insurance with a two-out, two-run double off Sam Long (0-1) in the 10th.Paul Sewald earned the save with a perfect 10th.Kwan had two hits.Vinnie Pasquantino, who was questionable entering the game due to a right hamstring injury he suffered last Saturday, hit a three-run homer in the third before he began the Royals' comeback by lacing a leadoff double against Clase (1-0) in the ninth.Salvador Perez followed with a single to send pinch-runner Freddy Fermin to third before Fermin trotted home on Michael Massey's sacrifice fly to the track in right.

The Kansas City Royals acquired outfielder/first baseman Mark Canha from the Milwaukee Brewers for a player to be named later or cash considerations, MLB.com reported.Canha, 36, signed a minor league deal with the Brewers. He is just 2-for-23 with one homer, four strikeouts and four walks in Cactus League action.Canha reportedly let the Brewers know he planned to exercise a clause in his contract that required the team to put him on the 40-man roster or allow him to become a free agent. As a result, the Brewers traded him to the Royals.Per MLB.com, Canha could earn $1.4 million with performance bonuses in 2025 once he is elevated to the majors.