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Royals Bust Out Bats In Opener

Posted on August 12, 2018 at 12:46 PM.

Every single player in the Kansas City lineup had at least one hit Thursday as the Royals racked up six extra-base hits, including two home runs, for seven runs on 14 hits to beat the host Texas Rangers, 7-1, in the opener of a four-game series at Globe Life Park.

The Royals (9-6) got to Texas No. 1 starter Yu Darvish (2-2) in the third inning, scoring four runs to break open what was a 1-1 game at the time. Alex Gordon's two-run home run capped the rally. Mike Moustakas put the icing on the cake with another two-run homer in the eighth off of Texas reliever Tanner Scheppers. It was the second straight outing that Scheppers had allowed a HR.

Five Royals recorded multi-hit games as KC collected four doubles to go with its two long balls. It was the second time in three games the Rangers gave up multiple home runs and at least seven runs in a game.

Texas did well to answer in the first inning after back-to-back doubles in the top half of the inning gave Kansas City an early 1-0 lead. Delino DeShields led the game off with an infield single, stole second base, moved over to third on a groundout and scored on a two-out opposite-field bloop single by Rougned Odor to tie the game at 1-1.

Kansas City Royals at Texas Rangers
Apr 20, 2017	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Kansas City (9-6)	1	0	4	0	0	0	0	2	0	7	14	0
Texas (6-10)	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	9	0
W: Travis Wood (2-0) L: Yu Darvish (2-2)

Kansas City Royals
HITTERS	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	HR	AVG
Delino DeShields Jr., LF	4	1	1	0	0	1	0	.278
Elvis Andrus, SS	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	.319
Adrian Beltre, 3B	3	0	1	0	1	0	0	.145
Rougned Odor, 2B	4	0	3	1	0	1	0	.369
Mike Napoli, 1B	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	.231
Carlos Gomez, CF	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	.228
Jonathan Lucroy, C	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	.278
Shin-Soo Choo, RF	4	0	2	0	0	1	0	.345
Robinson Chirinos, DH	3	0	0	0	1	1	0	.077
TEAM TOTALS	34	1	9	1	2	6	0
BATTING: RBI: Odor (9)
BASERUNNING: SB: DeShields Jr. (3)

Texas Rangers
HITTERS	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	HR	AVG
Lorenzo Cain, CF	5	1	1	0	0	1	0	.269
Paulo Orlando, RF	5	1	1	0	0	1	0	.218
Eric Hosmer, 1B	4	0	2	2	0	0	0	.250
Jorge Soler, DH	5	1	2	1	0	0	0	.348
Alex Gordon, LF	4	2	2	2	0	1	1	.320
Salvador Perez, C	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	.235
Mike Moustakas, 3B	4	1	1	2	0	0	1	.264
Alcides Escobar, SS	4	0	2	0	0	0	0	.196
Whit Merrifield, 2B	4	1	2	0	0	0	0	.320
TEAM TOTALS	39	7	14	7	0	3	2
BATTING: 2B: Hosmer (5), Gordon (5), Orlando (4), Merrifield (4) HR: Moustakas (7), Gordon (4) RBI: Moustakas 2 (12), Hosmer 2 (14), Gordon 2 (11), Soler (6) SF: Hosmer GIDP: Soler
BASERUNNING: SB: Cain (3)