Bounce Back | Relentless Royals Bats Even Series vs. Braves

Bounce Back | Relentless Royals Bats Even Series vs. Braves

Meanwhile, for the Royals, it is the newly locked in right hander Seth Lugo just yesterday, he signed a two year extension to remain with the Royals for 2026 and 2027 and with an option for 2028 as well. And tonight he makes his 20th start of the season and his 53rd as a member of the Royals, Erickson profi, a leadoff against that’s drilled into deep center field. Isbel is at the track at the wall. He makes a leaping play. And how about that for Lugo to begin the game profile at second base, looking out wishing the wind had been just a little bit stronger and that’s line past Jonathan India and Olson is on with one out. This pitch is up and in barely missed. So ball four that pushes Olson down to second. Okha draws the one out walk and the Braves have two on one away for austin Riley right handed batter scalds one great stop garcia second for one, first 42. What a play by garcia and garcia lunging to his right and Then scrambled to his feet, fired it to India. So a sensational double play turns the Braves away in the top of the first on the mound tonight for the Braves. It’s right hander eric Fetty. He makes his Braves debut. He began this season with the Cardinals but was designated for assignment less than a week ago and Then traded to Atlanta just a couple of days ago. And now he plugs into the Braves rotation. A rotation that is without every single one of its opening day members. The entire opening day rotation for the Braves is currently on the injured list. The swings and skies one out into center field Harris coming in makes the catch in medium depth right center for out. Number one slider is swung on and missed. Betty gets a strikeout. The Royals two up two down and blasted to right hooking. It stays fair and the Royals lead 1 to 0 in the bottom of the first. There’s the royals’ number three hitter that is prepared to swing the bat. That is the 25th 25, 25 home runs in 100 two innings surrendered by eric Fetty. And a big reason why he’s three and 10 with a 5.21 to nothing Royals the top of the second inning here in Kaufman Stadium in Kansas City where the Royals lead the Braves one nothing. They got a home in the bottom of the first from be Patino. There’s a good swing that’s going to plug the gap out in right center. We’ve got a triple here. He’s thinking three and he is going to get in there sliding head first. So he had two triples in Texas, another one here tonight in his first at bat. And what a great start for the Braves here in the second inning. So the Braves down one now have the tying run at third. Nobody out. And Marcel Ozuna, their designated hitter digging in on the right side, hits it on one hop just what the Royals wanted. Harris stays at third one out and Lugo strikes him out. So there’s a runner at third with two outs. So now it’s Azi Albis number eight hitter hitter ai hitting 218 sets. The target in comes the pitch and a swing and a miss the curveball getting both Baldwin and Albs and Lugo works around the leadoff triple Royals in front on Pasqua’s 18th home run. Fetty really has to bear down. Find a way to get into base hit means a couple of runs most likely high fly ball deep left field back goes profile to the fence to the wall and off the top of the fence, two runs are in and at second base with a two run double boy, he missed a home run by maybe less than a foot without the conditions. That is just a routine fly ball to left and that makes it three nothing Kansas City. We hits a ground ball up the middle into center. It goes and here comes India and the Royals now have a four to nothing advantage. And Bob drives in his 59th, the season has a four run lead and it hasn’t been too easy innings for Lugo. He needed a double play to get out of the first inning and Then he had to get around a leadoff triple in the second. Rolls it to the left side wit scoops it up into his chest shuffles and throws to first for the inning over and Lugo a day after signing his extension now through three scoreless innings against the Atlanta Braves. No runs a hit, no errors. One left. Lugo strands another runner in scoring position. Seth has allowed just three hits tonight. One hit in each of the first three innings. He’s had a base runner in each of the first four innings but no runs and it’s called strike three and with a cutter for the Royals right hander, fourth strikeout and now back to the top of the order and jerk and India makes a diving play and the inning is over. Diving stop on the back hand. Gets up those to first for the out. What a play by jonathan robbing profar of a base hit Seth Lugo doing what Seth Lugo does another quality start here tonight for the Royals and it is still four to nothing. Kansas City two away for Austin Riley, but Riley is thinking long ball here straight away center field, a solo shot for Austin Riley to get the Braves on the board. A solo home run for austin Riley for the second consecutive game , first run that Lugo’s allowed tonight. The Braves are on the board. It’s now 4 to 1 in the top of the sixth inning. Harris has his second hit. Brings up Marcelo Zuna, who’s zero for one with a walk. Marcelo Zuna deep to left and Then what’s gone homers in back to back nights for Marcello Zuda. It’s a big fly for the big bear and it gets the Braves back within a penny for Marcel his 15th of the year and his second in as many games, he’s up to 46 RBIs and it’s 4 to 3. Kansas City Lugo is through five and two thirds and barely a blink. He allowed a couple of extra base hits but stranded both runners but with two outs in the six and the Braves have strung together six consecutive base runners. And now Hunter Harvey enters with the bases loaded and two outs. Royals four Braves three slices it shallow center is Bells there. He makes the catch and the inning is over. He gets the crucial out strands the bases loaded and keeps the Royals in front and the Royals are trying to right back in the bottom of the sixth bases loaded , only one out and kyle Isbell comes to the plate, Isbell slices it into left center field , that’s a base hit. Frazier comes in to score. The ball goes all the way to the wall fin crosses behind him. Here comes grit around third. He scores ST is clears the bases , the three run double and the Royals lead 7 to 3 in the bottom of the sixth. They get all three runs right back Royals up 7 to 3 here in the bottom of the sixth runner on second two and on the ground back up the middle of base in the center field is Bell rounds third. He’s in to score standing another RB I single for Bobby. Woo Jor. The Royals have 1/4 run in the bottom of the sixth. It’s now eight to three. Bobby’s running. Vinny takes all the way and that is a stolen base if he stayed on the back, stolen base for Bobby Witt Junior his 28th of the season, he puts himself in scoring position. Now, Vinny Pasquin bats Paquin PM. It deep in the air right center field Acuna sprints over reaches out can make the catch and one hops the wall. He goes up over the wall onto the fountain deck, an automatic double Bobby Wood Junior scores pass. Quintino drives in it is 9 to 3 in the bottom of the sixth inning and Eli White is going out there to replace ronald Laha. Clearly not happy but also clearly not 100% out there trying to chase down those last two fly balls and he is leaving here in the bottom of the sixth inning and we’ll just have to hold our breath and hope for the best. So two infield hits for the Braves in this inning. And now Marcel Ozuna steps to the plate, he hit a two run homer his last time up maybe improving his trade value. Ozona through the right side. Eli White will score with ease Harris to 3rd 9 to 43 driven in for Marcel Paul Force and now the Braves have runners at 1st and 2nd 1 out and up comes Matt Olson ground ball up the middle past the diving Bobby Witt junior. Ozzie’s gonna come home but Then a play at second and thankfully , profar is able to get back, everybody’s safe and it’s 9 to 5. Schreiber on facing Eli White. This is White’s second plate appearance infield single a run scored in his only other at bat toward the middle and another one out into center field pros waved home throw to the plate is late 9 to 6. The Braves creep closer and Eli White since replacing A he’s two for two with an RB I ninth inning Royals lead 96 and on pitch for Kansas City is their closer carlos Est-vez to third and that’s that outstanding. The Royals offense came around is Bell man that really cracked open the game. Love the offense. Keep it coming with the Royals pitching a little bit. On the downside, they’ll take those runs.

The Royals got big nights up and down the batting order to back Seth Lugo and even the series vs. the Braves!
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