Guardians (80-59) @ Royals (75-65)
First Pitch: 7:40 PM at Kauffman Stadium
Official Game Notes (updated roughly an hour before first pitch)
| Team | Starter | TV | Radio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guardians | Ben Lively (11-8, 3.92 ERA) | BSGL | WTAM |
| Royals | Seth Lugo (14-8, 3.12 ERA) | BSKC | KCSP |
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Line Score – Bases empty, 2 Outs, Top of the 5th
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | LOB | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLE | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 2 | |||||
| KC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 4 |
Box Score
| KC | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | BA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RF | Pham | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | .256 |
| SS | Witt Jr. | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .338 |
| 1B | Perez, S | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .275 |
| LF | Melendez | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .212 |
| 3B | DeJong | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .233 |
| DH | Grossman | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .233 |
| 2B | Massey | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .258 |
| C | Fermin | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .292 |
| CF | Isbel | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .228 |
| KC | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | P-S | ERA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lugo, S | 4.2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 74-50 | 3.09 |
| CLE | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | BA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LF | Kwan | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .293 |
| 2B | Gimenez | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .253 |
| 3B | Ramírez, Jo | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .274 |
| DH | Fry | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .260 |
| RF | Brennan | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .254 |
| 1B | Manzardo | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .234 |
| CF | Thomas, L | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .240 |
| SS | Schneemann | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .234 |
| C | Naylor, B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .209 |
| CLE | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | P-S | ERA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lively | 4.0 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 78-51 | 4.07 |
Scoring Plays
Highlights
Updated at 8:55 PM.
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25 comments
Kinda saw that coming. The Royals were on the brink of doing this for a bit now I thought.
Doesn’t he have a strip club to go to and get stabbed?
One of us prob could have smacked that out the park what a pitch
At least looks like the Twins will lose tonight.
Middle, middle 91 mph fastball is a no no, even to a mediocre player
It could have at least been Witt for my parlay.
Hey….to the doom and gloomers….this is nothing a little small ball can’t fix. Plenty of game left to play!
Meh, *at worst*, we exit tonight up 4.5 games in the division, a series win, and all our magic numbers having dropped by at least one. Not the end of the world if we don’t pull this out.
We knew they weren’t going to roll over. But, Lively as a potential game two starter does scare me. I think I’d rather have Cobb.
Lively looking anything but
I might’ve hit that for a homer, geez.
On the one hand this is a bummer, but on the other, a comeback might literally kill the royals
Would be cool if we would put the guy who can tie it on one swing in the lineup consistently.
how r yall gonna be dooming after this game. we already won the series, have looked great the last week, and we have a very solid 4 w/ bibee, gavin, boyd, and cobb. yeah it would be nice to sweep but this isn’t concerning
anybody would have been more acceptable there than pham
Here’s comes the quick 6 pitch 1,2,3 answer inning
Thankfully we listened to Arch and did not walk Pham…
This KC defense is nasty 😡
Ruh roh raggy the Royals look alive again
And the offense followed it up with 3 of the most pathetic ABs you’ll see
Remember when the White Sox said they weren’t gonna trade within the division?
1-2-3 response. Nice.
How many times is Vogt going to get burned by keeping lively in before realizing when to yank him?
Need Jose badly!
Vogt has already punted this game with no Josh, benching hot Rocchio, Fry + Thomas vs. a righty, etc. This one’s definitely over now, thanks Lively… bum