Kansas City Royals at Texas Rangers

· Major League Baseball

Kansas City Royals

35-38, 16-19 Away

Final
6 - 1

Texas Rangers

36-37, 23-14 Home

Perez homers twice, Witt goes deep in hometown for 1st time as Royals beat Rangers 6-1

Kansas City Royals vs. Texas Rangers: Game Highlights

Seth Lugo struck out a season-high nine for his first win since May 1 as all three active Kansas City All-Stars from last year's Midsummer Classic at Globe Life Field returned to Texas and had a hand in ending the team's five-game skid against the Rangers.

Lugo (4-5), who threw a scoreless inning in the American League's 5-3 victory last July, gave up three hits and a run over six innings in his return to Arlington.

With the Royals coming off an 0-6 homestand that matched their longest losing streak of the season, Perez hit a two-run shot for a 3-0 lead in the first inning. After adding an RBI double in the fourth, Perez connected for his eighth homer of the year, a solo shot that made it 6-1 in the sixth.

Witt also homered off Jack Leiter in a matchup between sons of former major league pitchers. Witt grew up in the Dallas area, where Bobby Witt settled after spending 11 of his 16 big league seasons with the Rangers.

Leiter (4-4) is the son of Al Leiter, who had a 19-year major league career. The rookie right-hander gave up eight hits and six runs — both matching season highs — in 5 2/3 innings.

The Rangers equaled their season high by striking out 14 times.

Key moment Texas rookie Alejandro Osuna had his first career RBI in the fourth.

Key stat Perez had his 18th multihomer game, breaking George Brett's franchise record.

Up next Kansas City's Kris Bubic (5-4, 1.92 ERA) faces Patrick Corbin (4-5, 3.66) in a matchup of lefties Wednesday.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Heim struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Burger flied out to center.
	9th Inning	Osuna grounded out to shortstop.
	9th Inning	Cruz relieved Lynch IV
	9th Inning	India flied out to center.
	9th Inning	Isbel lined out to left.

Statistics

KC		$https://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=/i/teamlogos/mlb/500/tex.png&h=100&scale=crop&w=100&location=origin$ TEX
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	2
10	Ground Balls	8
7	Strikeouts	14
6	Runs Batted In	1
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
8	Hits	5
1	Stolen Bases	0
2	Walks	1
0	Catcher Interference	0
6	Runs	1
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
35	At Bats	32
3	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
8	Runners Left On Base	12
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
2	Doubles	1
18	Fly Balls	10
0	Caught Stealing	0
130	Pitches	149
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	1
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	0
19	Total Bases	6
37	Plate Appearances	35
486.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
5	Extra Base Hits	1
5.6	Runs Created	1.0
.229	Batting Average	.156
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.543	Slugging Percentage	.188
.400	Secondary Average	.063
.270	On Base Percentage	.229
.813	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.416
0.6	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.8
5.6	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	1.0
46.0	Batter Rating	11.0
11.7	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.51	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.26
.314	Isolated Power	.031
0.29	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.07
.054	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.029
.171	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	-.094
12.0	Runs Produced	2.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.6	Patience Ratio	0.3
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.3
90.3	MLB Rating	62.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0