Kansas City Royals at Toronto Blue Jays

· Major League Baseball

Kansas City Royals

55-55, 27-27 Away

Final
9 - 3

Toronto Blue Jays

64-47, 37-18 Home

Mike Yastrzemski homers in his 1st at-bat as a Royal in 9-3 victory over the Blue Jays

Acquired from San Francisco just before the trade deadline Thursday, Yastrzemski had a two-run shot off Kevin Gausman (7-8) in the second inning to make it 2-1.

Wacha (5-9) allowed three hits and stuck out five, helping the Royals improve to .500 for the first time since June 20. He gave up one run for the fourth consecutive start.

Bobby Witt Jr., Salvador Perez and Adam Frazier also homered for Kansas City.

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. had two-out homer in the first inning to give Toronto a 1-0 lead. After Yastrzemski gave the Royals the lead in the second, and Witt's three-run homer made it 5-1 in the third.

Kansas City added four runs in the ninth. Perez and Frazier homered and Maikel Garcia had a bases-loaded single.

Addison Barger hit a two-run homer for Toronto in the ninth.

Key moment Yastrzemski wasted no time getting his first big hit for Kansas City, hitting the two-run homer in the second inning.

Key stat The Royals scored five or more runs for the eighth time in 13 games since the All-Star break.

Up next Kansas City LHP Noah Cameron (5-4, 2.44 ERA) was set to start Saturday against Toronto RHP Max Scherzer (1-1, 4.89).

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	France struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Barger homered to right (362 feet), Loperfido scored.
	9th Inning	Bichette grounded out to shortstop, Loperfido to third.
	9th Inning	Guerrero Jr. flied out to right.
	9th Inning	Loperfido doubled to left.
	9th Inning	Hatch relieved Wacha

Statistics

KC		TOR
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
10	Ground Balls	7
7	Strikeouts	6
9	Runs Batted In	3
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
11	Hits	5
2	Stolen Bases	0
3	Walks	0
0	Catcher Interference	0
9	Runs	3
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
38	At Bats	33
4	Home Runs	2
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
10	Runners Left On Base	7
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
2	Doubles	2
21	Fly Balls	20
0	Caught Stealing	0
176	Pitches	119
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	0
25	Total Bases	13
41	Plate Appearances	33
648.0	Projected Home Runs	324.0
6	Extra Base Hits	4
8.7	Runs Created	2.0
.289	Batting Average	.152
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.658	Slugging Percentage	.394
.500	Secondary Average	.242
.341	On Base Percentage	.152
.999	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.545
0.5	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.4
8.7	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	1.9
65.0	Batter Rating	27.0
9.5	At Bats Per Home Run	16.5
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
4.29	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.61
.368	Isolated Power	.242
0.43	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.00
.073	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.000
.211	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.091
18.0	Runs Produced	6.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.7	Patience Ratio	0.4
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.1
105.8	MLB Rating	74.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0