Texas Rangers at Kansas City Royals

· Major League Baseball

Texas Rangers

63-66, 26-40 Away

Final
4 - 6

Kansas City Royals

66-62, 36-30 Home

Vinnie Pasquantino's homer in 4th straight game helps lift Royals over Rangers 6-4

Nick Loftin also homered for the Royals, who boosted their playoff hopes by going 8-2 on a season-high 10-game homestand.

Michael Lorenzen failed to make it through five innings for Kansas City, but Angel Zerpa (5-1), Daniel Lynch IV, John Schreiber and Taylor Clarke were able to shut down the Rangers. Carlos Estévez handled the ninth for his AL-leading 33rd save.

Corey Seager had three hits and Josh Smith drove in a pair of runs for Texas. Jacob Webb (4-4) served up Pasquantino's homer.

The Royals pulled ahead 2-1 in the third, when Bobby Witt Jr. sent a fly ball to left-center that Rangers outfielder Wyatt Langford lost in the sun. The ball bounced off the warning track, then off the top of the wall, and that gave the speedy Witt enough time to round the bases for what appeared to be an inside-the-park homer.

The umpires huddled and decided to call it a ground-rule double, because a fan appeared to have touched the ball. The Royals challenged the call and it was upheld, only for Salvador Perez to drive in Witt with a single moments later.

Kansas City added two more in the fourth before the Rangers tied the game with three runs in the fifth.

That set the stage for Pasquantino, whose four-game homer streak is one shy of the Royals club record.

Key moment Pasquantino greeted Webb's 2-1 pitch by sending it 407 feet to right field.

Key stat The Rangers' Patrick Corbin allowed four runs in 3 2/3 innings. He has allowed 17 over 13 innings covering his last four starts.

Up next Texas returns home to face Cleveland on Friday night with RHP Nathan Eovaldi (11-3, 1.76 ERA) up first.

The Royals begin a three-game set Friday night in Detroit with RHP Ryan Bergert (1-1, 2.75) on the mound.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Higashioka struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Duran flied out to center.
	9th Inning	Seager fouled out to third.
	9th Inning	Estévez relieved Clarke
	8th Inning	Perez struck out swinging.
	8th Inning	Pasquantino lined out to center.

Statistics

$https://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=/i/teamlogos/mlb/500/tex.png&h=100&scale=crop&w=100&location=origin$ TEX		KC
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
2	Hit By Pitch	0
12	Ground Balls	9
12	Strikeouts	6
4	Runs Batted In	6
0	Sacrifice Hit	1
10	Hits	9
1	Stolen Bases	2
1	Walks	8
0	Catcher Interference	0
4	Runs	6
1	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	1
37	At Bats	30
0	Home Runs	2
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
22	Runners Left On Base	18
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	2
13	Fly Balls	17
0	Caught Stealing	0
150	Pitches	162
0	Games Started	0
3	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	1
11	Total Bases	17
40	Plate Appearances	40
0.0	Projected Home Runs	324.0
1	Extra Base Hits	4
3.6	Runs Created	8.3
.270	Batting Average	.300
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.297	Slugging Percentage	.567
.081	Secondary Average	.600
.325	On Base Percentage	.436
.622	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	1.003
0.9	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.5
3.5	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	9.8
29.0	Batter Rating	45.0
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	15.0
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.75	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.05
.027	Isolated Power	.267
0.08	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	1.33
.025	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.200
-.189	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.300
8.0	Runs Produced	12.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.4	Patience Ratio	0.7
0.4	Balls In Play Average	0.3
79.3	MLB Rating	93.3
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0