Minnesota Twins at Kansas City Royals

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Minnesota Twins

22-35, 10-18 Away

Final
5 - 14

Kansas City Royals

29-26, 16-13 Home

Royals score 9 in 1st, rout Twins 14-5 for 5th straight win

Merrifield started the big burst with a leadoff single and his home run ended the evening for Matt Shoemaker (2-7). He retired just one batter, allowing six hits and two walks.

“It’s what I pride myself on which is being well-rounded,” Merrifield said. “We’ve known we can do this for a while and now it’s just us doing it consistently.”

Kansas City made it 13-0 in the second. All nine Royals in batting order had already scored with no outs in the inning.

“It was relentless. It was every guy doing something that looked right,” Royals manager Mike Matheny said. “It continued to the second inning and we had 10 guys get hits. Really good at bats right from the top.”

Michael A. Taylor drove in three runs for the Royals.

Brad Keller (6-4) got his third straight win and hasn’t allowed more than three runs in an outing since April. He went five innings, giving up two earned runs.

Minnesota lost its fourth in a row.

Jorge Polanco hit his sixth home run of the season into the right field fountains in the Twins fifth. Miguel Sano broke an 0-for-24 with a two-run drive and Nick Gordon hit his first career home run.

“I know my parents are excited they were here to witness it,” Gordon said. “So cool for them to be here.”

Taylor and Salvador Perez had two RBI apiece in the first inning while Andrew Benintendi and Nicky Lopez each had one.

Carlos Santana added a two-run single in the second.

Kansas City has scored at least five runs in its last seven games.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Minnesota: Kenta Maeda (groin) completed a 20-pitch bullpen session and is scheduled to throw another on Sunday.

The Twins send Jose Berrios (5-2, 3.36) to the mound to face Mike Minor (4-2, 4.65) on Saturday afternoon.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Astudillo lined out to left.
	9th Inning	Kirilloff flied out to left.
	9th Inning	Garlick flied out to center.
	9th Inning	E. Santana relieved Davis
	8th Inning	Lopez grounded into double play, second to shortstop to first, Taylor out at second.
	8th Inning	Taylor safe at first on fielding error by third baseman Sanó, Soler to second.

Statistics

MIN		KC
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	1
13	Ground Balls	18
6	Strikeouts	7
5	Runs Batted In	14
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
11	Hits	12
0	Stolen Bases	1
3	Walks	5
0	Catcher Interference	1
5	Runs	14
1	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
37	At Bats	38
3	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
19	Runners Left On Base	20
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	2
18	Fly Balls	13
0	Caught Stealing	0
157	Pitches	153
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
20	Total Bases	17
40	Plate Appearances	45
486.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
3	Extra Base Hits	3
6.6	Runs Created	7.1
.297	Batting Average	.316
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.541	Slugging Percentage	.447
.324	Secondary Average	.289
.350	On Base Percentage	.409
.891	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.856
0.7	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	1.4
6.6	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	7.1
40.0	Batter Rating	76.0
12.3	At Bats Per Home Run	38.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.93	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.40
.243	Isolated Power	.132
0.50	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.71
.075	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.111
.027	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	-.026
10.0	Runs Produced	28.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.6	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.4
92.8	MLB Rating	109.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0

Game Information

Kauffman Stadium

Location: Kansas City, Missouri
Attendance: 22,612 | Capacity:

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