KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 The Royals made Clay Holmes’ debut with the Chicago Cubs a forgettable affair Saturday night, hammering him for four runs in his return from the injured list, while Jac Calgianone helped to power Kansas City to a 6-3 victory.<\/p>\n
Caglianone hit two homers, two doubles and finished with four RBIs for the Royals. Josh Rojas also had a pair of RBIs.<\/p>\n
Seth Lugo (5-7) out-shined Holmes with his eight-pitch repertoire, which included a looping 65 mph curve that fanned MVP candidate Pete Crow-Armstrong. Lugo wound up allowing three runs on five hits and a walk over six innings, striking out five.<\/p>\n
Nate Pearson handled the ninth against his former team to pick up his second save of the season.<\/p>\n
Holmes (4-5) last started a big league game May 15, when he was still with the Mets, and a 111 mph liner from the Yankees\u2019 Spencer Jones fractured his right fibula. He was in the midst of making rehab starts when the Cubs traded for him earlier this week.<\/p>\n
Holmes needed 70 pitches to go four innings, allowing six hits and two walks while striking out one.<\/p>\n
Caglianone gave the Royals to a 1-0 lead with his first-inning homer, a shot to right-center that went an estimated 448 feet. Rojas added a two-run single in the second, after a sacrifice bunt by Nick Loftin had advanced the runners, and Caglianone’s double in the third was enough to score Bobby Witt Jr. from first base and make it 4-0.<\/p>\n
Carson Kelly halved the lead with a two-out double in the fourth, and Ian Happ’s two-out homer made it 4-3 in the sixth. But the Cubs squandered a chance when the Royals’ John Schreiber struck out Seiya Suzuki with two aboard in the seventh.<\/p>\n
Caglianone added his second homer in the bottom half of the inning to give the Royals some breathing room.<\/p>\n
LHP Matthew Boyd (7-1, 3.59) tries to win his eighth consecutive decision Sunday when he takes the mound for the Cubs in the series finale. RHP Randy Dobnak (2-0, 1.16) tries to continue his resurgence when he makes the start for Kansas City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 The Royals made Clay Holmes’ debut with the Chicago Cubs a forgettable affair…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,1351,34,138,1712,95373,36,95427,7096,24098,936,2123,55,2596,2595,5177,4,878,15108,9500,9501,35,9496,9497,15187,15188,88501,83589,82856,13368,252,105,2002,5055],"class_list":["post-773799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-royals","tag-baseball","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-carson-kelly","tag-chicago","tag-clay-holmes","tag-cubs-royals-score","tag-ian-happ","tag-jac-calgianone","tag-john-schreiber","tag-joshua-rojas","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascityroyals","tag-matt-boyd","tag-mlb","tag-nate-pearson","tag-nick-loftin","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-pete-crow-armstrong","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40784-ap-illinois-sports-only","tag-product-40785-ap-indiana-sports-only","tag-product-40786-ap-iowa-sports-only","tag-product-40787-ap-kansas-sports-only","tag-product-40795-ap-missouri-sports-only","tag-randy-dobnak","tag-royals","tag-seiya-suzuki","tag-seth-lugo","tag-spencer-jones"],"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\/773799","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=773799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}