KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Ian Happ hit a two-run homer, Miguel Amaya added a three-run shot and the Chicago Cubs beat the Kansas City Royals 10-2 on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Alex Bregman delivered a pair of RBI singles to help the Cubs win two of three games in the series. Bregman, Happ and Michael Busch each had three of Chicago’s 18 hits.<\/p>\n
Matthew Boyd (8-1) allowed two runs and five hits in seven effective innings.<\/p>\n
Happ made it 7-2 in the sixth with his 20th home run. Amaya connected in the seventh, also off reliever Easton McGee.<\/p>\n
Chicago got on the board in the first with a sacrifice fly by Michael Conforto that scored Busch. Conforto knocked in Busch again in the third on an RBI single.<\/p>\n
That was followed by an RBI single from Nico Hoerner that scored Happ, extending the lead to 3-0.<\/p>\n
In the fourth, Bregman added to the lead with an RBI single that scored Pete Crow-Armstrong and gave the Cubs a 4-0 advantage.<\/p>\n
Starling Marte hit his second home run of the season for the Royals in the bottom of the fourth, scoring Salvador Perez and cutting the deficit to 4-2.<\/p>\n
Bregman had another RBI single in the sixth and scored on Happ’s homer.<\/p>\n
Kansas City starter Randy Dobnak (2-1) went five innings. He gave up four runs and 10 hits with one walk and four strikeouts.<\/p>\n
Cubs LHP Shota Imanaga (8-9, 3.60 ERA) pitches Tuesday at Washington.<\/p>\n
Royals LHP Noah Cameron (6-8, 4.37 ERA) starts on the road against LHP Tarik Skubal (7-6, 2.81) and the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Ian Happ hit a two-run homer, Miguel Amaya added a three-run shot and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[72,5,138,24,4245,161,95509,13079,36,5177,37,111,728,4,33,1357,9500,9501,35,9496,9497,15187,83589,82856,13368,373,770,1420,382],"class_list":["post-774714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-cubs","tag-alex-bregman","tag-baseball","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicagocubs","tag-cubs","tag-cubs-royals-score-happ-bregman-boyd","tag-easton-mcgee","tag-ian-happ","tag-matt-boyd","tag-michael-busch","tag-michael-conforto","tag-miguel-amaya","tag-mlb","tag-nico-hoerner","tag-noah-cameron","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-40787-ap-kansas-sports-only","tag-product-40795-ap-missouri-sports-only","tag-randy-dobnak","tag-salvador-perez","tag-shota-imanaga","tag-starling-marte","tag-tarik-skubal"],"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\/774714","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=774714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}