Kansas City Royals at San Francisco Giants

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Kansas City Royals

28-23, 11-14 Away

Final
8 - 4

San Francisco Giants

29-21, 17-9 Home

Perez powers Royals with 3 hits, including a homer, in 8-4 win over Giants

The Royals had scored three runs or fewer in their previous seven games and were held to four runs or fewer in 42 of their first 50 games.

Kansas City led 3-1 in the top of the fourth when Perez hit an opposite field homer off Giants starter Logan Webb (5-4) with Witt aboard.

The Royals extended the lead to 8-2 in the fifth, when Drew Waters hit a leadoff double during a two-run inning.

Matt Chapman, Patrick Bailey and Heliot Ramos homered for San Francisco.

Ramos hit a two-run homer in the ninth off Lucas Erceg to cut the lead to 8-4.

Jonathan Bowlan (1-0) gave up one run on two hits in 1 1/3 innings in relief of opener Daniel Lynch IV, who walked three and gave up a hit in 1 2/3 innings.

Webb (5-4) gave up six runs (three earned) on 10 hits in four innings. The Giants’ ace struck out five and walked none.

Key moment Royals center fielder Kyle Isbel made a sliding catch on a low line drive off Wilmer Flores’ bat with the bases loaded and two outs in the fourth inning of a 6-2 game.

Key stat The Royals improved to a major league-best 17-1 when scoring four runs or more.

Up next Kansas City LHP Noah Cameron (1-1, 0.71 ERA) will pitch Friday’s series opener against the Twins in Minnesota. The Giants have not yet announced a starter for Friday’s series opener against the Nationals in Washington.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Adames struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Flores lined out to right.
	9th Inning	Lee walked.
	9th Inning	Chapman grounded out to shortstop.
	9th Inning	Ramos homered to left center (387 feet), Wade Jr. scored.
	9th Inning	Wade Jr. singled to right.

Statistics

KC		SF
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
1	Hit By Pitch	0
17	Ground Balls	12
5	Strikeouts	7
8	Runs Batted In	4
1	Sacrifice Hit	0
16	Hits	8
1	Stolen Bases	0
0	Walks	6
0	Catcher Interference	0
8	Runs	4
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
2	Sacrifice Flies	0
40	At Bats	35
1	Home Runs	3
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
19	Runners Left On Base	16
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
3	Doubles	1
21	Fly Balls	16
0	Caught Stealing	0
133	Pitches	176
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	0
22	Total Bases	18
44	Plate Appearances	41
162.0	Projected Home Runs	486.0
4	Extra Base Hits	4
8.8	Runs Created	6.5
.400	Batting Average	.229
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.550	Slugging Percentage	.514
.175	Secondary Average	.457
.395	On Base Percentage	.341
.945	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.856
0.8	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.8
8.8	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	6.5
58.0	Batter Rating	35.0
40.0	At Bats Per Home Run	11.7
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.02	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.29
.150	Isolated Power	.286
0.00	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.86
.000	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.146
-.225	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.229
16.0	Runs Produced	8.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.5	Patience Ratio	0.6
0.4	Balls In Play Average	0.2
107.0	MLB Rating	86.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0