KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Jac Caglianone went 3 for 3 with two home runs and three RBIs as the Kansas City Royals erased an early deficit to defeat the Texas Rangers 5-3 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Caglianone, who missed Kansas City’s previous game with right shoulder soreness, ended Nathan Eovaldi\u2019s no-hit bid with a leadoff homer in the fifth inning that sailed into the right-field bullpen.<\/p>\n
In the sixth, Caglianone drove reliever Jalen Beeks’ first-pitch changeup 431 feet to right-center for a two-run shot that gave the Royals a 5-2 lead.<\/p>\n
It was Caglianone\u2019s second multihomer game in the majors; he also hit a pair against the Rangers on June 19, 2025, the first two home runs of his career.<\/p>\n
The Royals got five extra-base hits in a four-run sixth.<\/p>\n
Carter Jensen opened the inning with a double off the right-field fence and scored on Maikel Garcia\u2019s one-out triple, tying the score at 2.<\/p>\n
Garcia scored on Vinnie Pasquantino\u2019s ground-rule double to center for a 3-2 lead.<\/p>\n
Caglianone also singled and stole a base in the eighth.<\/p>\n
Eovaldi (5-7) walked a batter in each of his first three innings, but held Kansas City hitless through four. He threw 5 2\/3 innings, allowing four runs on four hits \u2014 all for extra bases \u2014 with three walks and three strikeouts.<\/p>\n
Stephen Kolek labored through the first three innings for Kansas City, delivering 55 pitches and allowing six baserunners, but stranded four.<\/p>\n
Jake Burger\u2019s second-inning RBI single for the Rangers provided the game\u2019s first run. A pair of throwing errors allowed Evan Carter to circle the bases in the fourth, expanding Texas\u2019 lead to 2-0.<\/p>\n
Kolek exited after five innings. He allowed two runs \u2014 one earned \u2014 and eight hits.<\/p>\n
Joc Pederson tripled and scored on Corey Seager’s groundout in the seventh, capping the scoring.<\/p>\n
Josh Jung and Brandon Nimmo each had two of Texas’ nine hits.<\/p>\n
Steven Cruz (1-2) retired all four batters he faced, striking out two to earn the win. Alex Lange fanned two in in a hitless ninth for his fourth save this season, all in the last six Royals games.<\/p>\n
Kansas City has won five of six.<\/p>\n
Royals center fielder Kyle Isbel exited in the seventh with a left foot plantar fascia injury.<\/p>\n
Rangers LHP MacKenzie Gore (4-5, 4.23 ERA) faces Royals RHP Seth Lugo (2-4, 3.91) on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Jac Caglianone went 3 for 3 with two home runs and three RBIs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[12048,5,226,384,2266,231,400,657,13,395,2123,3402,771,2162,4,394,9500,9501,9496,9497,83589,82856,9499,149,90283,2002,5176,6923,1567,69,3240,2126],"class_list":["post-722212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas-rangers","tag-alex-lange","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-nimmo","tag-corey-seager","tag-evan-carter","tag-jac-caglianone","tag-jake-burger","tag-jalen-beeks","tag-joc-pederson","tag-josh-jung","tag-kansas-city","tag-kyle-isbel","tag-mackenzie-gore","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-mlb","tag-nathan-eovaldi","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40787-ap-kansas-sports-only","tag-product-40795-ap-missouri-sports-only","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-rangers","tag-rangers-royals-score-caglianone","tag-seth-lugo","tag-stephen-kolek","tag-steven-cruz","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers","tag-texasrangers","tag-vinnie-pasquantino"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722212","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=722212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}