{"id":664756,"date":"2026-04-05T15:01:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T15:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/664756\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T15:01:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T15:01:37","slug":"%e2%9a%be%ef%b8%8f-perezs-homer-highlights-6-run-6th-as-royals-top-brewers-for-doubleheader-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/664756\/","title":{"rendered":"\u26be\ufe0f Perez\u2019s homer highlights 6-run 6th as Royals top Brewers for doubleheader split"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mx-auto w-full sm:w-full md:w-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775356180283.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo KC Royals\"\/>Photo KC Royals<\/p>\n<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Salvador Perez\u2019s solo homer highlighted a six-run sixth inning as the Kansas City Royals beat the Milwaukee Brewers 8-2 to earn a doubleheader split Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>After Perez\u2019s second home run of the year snapped a 2-2 tie, the Royals chased Brandon Sproat (0-1) with three consecutive two-out singles. Kansas City took an 8-2 lead when eight straight hitters reached safely after two were out.<\/p>\n<p>Sproat pitched 3 2\/3 innings, allowing four runs on four hits and three walks with four strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>Royals starter Seth Lugo threw 103 pitches in five innings, allowing two runs on four hits and two walks, striking out seven.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Mears (1-0) earned the victory pitching a hitless sixth inning.<\/p>\n<p>Eli Morgan recorded his second career save \u2014 and first since 2023 \u2014 with three scoreless frames, striking out five.<\/p>\n<p>In the doubleheader, Kansas City relievers tossed 10 scoreless innings, allowing three hits while striking out 13.<\/p>\n<p>Maikel Garcia had three of Kansas City\u2019s 10 hits.<\/p>\n<p>In the second inning, Carter Jensen doubled in two runs against Brewers opener Logan Henderson.<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee promptly tied the game in the third with Brice Turang\u2019s RBI triple and Garrett Mitchell\u2019s RBI double.<\/p>\n<p>With three extra base hits Saturday, Mitchell collected six RBIs, including all of the Brewer\u2019s five runs in their 5-2 victory in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/brewers-royals-score-game-1-ee7257d0af1d13ab0d3dba5c60c05f9a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">game one<\/a>\u00a0of the split doubleheader.<\/p>\n<p>Sal Frelick\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/sal-frelick-hurt-brewers-ca5b60360de0859dac440bad383ecfb4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">exited the game<\/a>\u00a0with left side tightness while hitting a fourth-inning single.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Brewers LHP Kyle Harrison (0-0, 1.80 ERA) opposes Royals LHP Kris Bubic (1-0, 1.50) in the series finale Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo KC Royals KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Salvador Perez\u2019s solo homer highlighted a six-run sixth inning as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,936,2123,55,2596,2595,4,252],"class_list":{"0":"post-664756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-royals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-kansas","10":"tag-kansas-city","11":"tag-kansas-city-royals","12":"tag-kansascity","13":"tag-kansascityroyals","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116352705548890826","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}