Rookie Drew Waters belted a three-run homer off Kirk McCarty in the 10th inning Monday night, sending the Kansas City Royals to a 5-2 victory against the A.L. Central champion Cleveland Guardians. Waters’ third home run in four games landed on the porch in left field, scoring automatic runner Nicky Lopez and Michael A. Taylor. The 23-year-old outfielder went 2-for-4 with four RBI as Kansas City won for the second time in seven games.
Andrew Vaughn and A.J. Pollock each cracked a two-run homer and singled, and the Chicago White Sox beat the Kansas City Royals 7-1 on Thursday. Leury Garcia and Elvis Andrus added two hits and an RBI each for the White Sox, who won their second straight following a five-game slide to climb back within a game of .500 (65-66).
Lance Lynn pitched four-hit ball through seven innings, Elvis Andrus hit a tiebreaking home run in the fifth and the Chicago White Sox beat the Kansas City Royals 4-2 on Wednesday night to snap a five-game losing streak.
Aaron Judge is turning walk-off home runs into a routine. Judge hit his major league-leading 39th home run for his third walk-off long ball this season, lifting the New York Yankees past the Kansas City Royals 1-0 on Thursday night. New York was held to one hit before Judge drove a first-pitch fastball from Scott Barlow into the Kansas City bullpen with one out in the ninth, a 431-foot drive.
Zack Greinke is getting to the point in his career where it seems as though just about every start brings with it some kind of record, even those that the former Cy Young winner never anticipated seeing. Like his name climbing the career strikeouts list.