{"id":669164,"date":"2026-04-07T22:24:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/669164\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T22:24:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:24:31","slug":"guardians-walk-off-royals-2-1-kmmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/669164\/","title":{"rendered":"GUARDIANS WALK OFF ROYALS 2-1 | KMMO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n               <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/KC-ROYALS-FLAG.png\" class=\"alignleft full-img-class wp-post-image\" alt=\"kc-royals-flag\" wpb-att-id=\"125131\" wpb-att-extension=\"png\" data-wpbsize=\"full\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Kansas City Royals threw the first punch, but couldn\u2019t protect a one-run lead as the Guardians stole the game with a walk off single for a 2-1 victory at Progressive Field.<\/p>\n<p>Carter Jensen recorded Kansas City\u2019s first and only hit of the game in the second inning, blasting a home run to right field to give the Royals an early lead against Gavin Williams. The Royals did draw eight walks, but were unable to capitalize on the free passes.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland tied the game in the fifth after an RBI single from Steven Kwan. Noah Cameron had another solid start, allowing just one run and six hits over 5.2 innings along with five strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>John Schreiber came on in the bottom of the ninth, and immediately allowed a single and a walk to put the winning run in scoring position. Brayan Rocchio then singled to right field, scoring CJ Kayfus to walk it off for the Guardians.<\/p>\n<p>The win went to Cade Smith, who struck out two in a scoreless ninth inning.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Royals drop to 5-6 on the season. The Royals will go for the series win tomorrow afternoon at Progressive Field, with Cole Ragans taking the mound against Joey Cantillo. Pregame from the Royals Radio Network will begin at 11:30 a.m., with first pitch at 12:10 p.m. on KMMO AM 1300.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kansas City Royals threw the first punch, but couldn\u2019t protect a one-run lead as the Guardians stole&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10601,"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-669164","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\/116365771782212302","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669164","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=669164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}