Colorado Rockies at Kansas City Royals

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Colorado Rockies

25-34, 10-20 Away

Final
7 - 2

Kansas City Royals

17-40, 8-22 Home

McMahon homers, gets go-ahead hit, Rockies beat Royals 7-2

Elias Díaz and Nolan Jones hit two-run doubles in the eighth, among six hits by the Rockies in the inning. McMahon has reached safely in 11 consecutive games, batting .425 (17 for 40) with five homers and 15 RBI.

Kansas City has lost nine of 12, dropping to 17-40.

Brent Suter (4-0) allowed one hit over two scoreless innings.

Justin Lawrence struck out Jackie Bradley Jr. with the bases loaded for his second career save and first this year.

After McMahon’s first-inning homer, Lyles retired 13 of his next 15 batters. He allowed two hits over five innings, striking out eight.

Lyles has allowed runs in the first inning of 10 of 12 starts, giving up 15 runs in the first.

“He threw the ball great,” Royals manager Matt Quatraro said. “He worked the ball up and down in the zone. It was a really positive outing.”

Kansas City built a 2-1 lead on homers by Edward Olivares in the second and Drew Waters in the third. Both were off Chase Anderson, who gave up four hits in six innings.

“Obviously wish I could have a couple of pitches back,” Anderson said. “The lazy curveball to Olivares and then the first pitch to Waters weren’t great pitches.”

Brenton Doyle singled and Ezequiel Tovar doubled off Carlos Hernández (0-3) starting the eighth. Jurickson Profar tied the score with a run-scoring groundout and McMahon looped an opposite-field single into left for a 3-2 lead. Nick Wittgren relieved, and Díaz doubled on his first pitch for a three-run advantage.

“They don’t all have to be pretty. They just have to work,” McMahon said. “The guy throws really hard. Just tried to battle and put a ball in play. Honestly, it doesn’t matter how it happens, it just matters that it does happen.”

TRAINER’S ROOM

Royals LHP Amir Garrett was placed on the 15-day IL, retroactive to Tuesday, with left elbow valgus extension overload.

TRANSACTIONS

Royals RHP Jackson Kowar was recalled from Triple-A Omaha.

Colorado LHP Austin Gomber (4-4, 7.00 ERA) opposes LHP Daniel Lynch (0-0, 3.38) on Saturday.

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Matchup Prediction

Royals: 43.2%

Rockies: 56.8%

*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Bradley Jr. struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Lawrence relieved Bard
	9th Inning	Garcia walked, Melendez to second, Pasquantino to third.
	9th Inning	Melendez singled to left, Pasquantino to second.
	9th Inning	Perez lined out to right.
	9th Inning	Pasquantino walked.

Statistics

COL		KC
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
8	Ground Balls	5
12	Strikeouts	5
7	Runs Batted In	2
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
9	Hits	6
0	Stolen Bases	0
1	Walks	3
0	Catcher Interference	0
7	Runs	2
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
37	At Bats	31
1	Home Runs	2
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
12	Runners Left On Base	11
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
3	Doubles	0
17	Fly Balls	21
0	Caught Stealing	1
168	Pitches	135
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
15	Total Bases	12
38	Plate Appearances	34
162.0	Projected Home Runs	324.0
4	Extra Base Hits	2
3.9	Runs Created	3.0
.243	Batting Average	.194
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.405	Slugging Percentage	.387
.189	Secondary Average	.258
.263	On Base Percentage	.265
.669	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.652
0.5	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.2
3.8	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	3.1
46.0	Batter Rating	20.0
37.0	At Bats Per Home Run	15.5
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
4.42	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.97
.162	Isolated Power	.194
0.08	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.60
.026	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.088
-.054	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.065
14.0	Runs Produced	4.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.4	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.2
87.3	MLB Rating	74.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0