Kansas City Royals at Tampa Bay Rays

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Kansas City Royals

34-46, 15-24 Away

Final
12 - 5

Tampa Bay Rays

43-33, 26-12 Home

Jac Caglianone continues tear with 2 homers and 3 RBIs as the Royals beat the Rays 12-5

Luinder Avila (3-3) allowed three hits and a run over five innings for Kansas City. He also struck out six batters before giving way to four Royals relief pitchers.

Tampa Bay's Shane McClanahan (6-5) gave up six runs over six innings, though four were unearned.

Caglianone hit a 443-foot solo home run in the first inning and a 416-foot two-run blast in the fifth for this third multihomer game this month. His nine homers in June are tied with the Athletics’ Nick Kurtz for the most in the American League.

Six home runs for Caglianone, who played before family and friends at the stadium where he grew up watching the Rays, have occurred in the past five games. Caglianone, the Royals' sixth-overall draft pick in 2024 out of Florida, has 14 homers on the season.

His homer in the fifth was part of a four-run inning that put the Royals ahead 6-2. They scored five more runs in the eighth and led 12-2 before Tampa Bay scored three runs in the ninth.

Nick Loftin went 4 for 5 with a homer and two RBI for Kansas City, which had 14 hits.

The Rays dropped to three games behind the first-place New York Yankees in the AL East. Tampa Bay, in the midst of a season-long 10-game homestand, has lost eight of its past 11.

Up next Royals LHP Noah Cameron (4-4, 4.20) faces Rays RHP Griffin Jax (2-5, 3.67) on Wednesday in the second game of the three-game series.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Palacios flied out to left.
	9th Inning	Caminero singled to left, Aranda scored, Mullins to third.
	9th Inning	Mullins singled to left, Walls scored, Aranda to second.
	9th Inning	Aranda singled to center, Simpson scored, Walls to third.
	9th Inning	Mesa Jr. struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Mesa Jr. hit for Díaz

Statistics

KC		TB
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	1
14	Ground Balls	7
6	Strikeouts	9
10	Runs Batted In	5
1	Sacrifice Hit	0
14	Hits	9
0	Stolen Bases	1
1	Walks	6
0	Catcher Interference	0
12	Runs	5
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
1	Sacrifice Flies	0
39	At Bats	34
3	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
8	Runners Left On Base	23
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
4	Doubles	0
21	Fly Balls	18
0	Caught Stealing	1
129	Pitches	166
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	1
1	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
27	Total Bases	12
42	Plate Appearances	41
486.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
7	Extra Base Hits	1
9.4	Runs Created	5.3
.359	Batting Average	.265
1.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.692	Slugging Percentage	.353
.359	Secondary Average	.265
.366	On Base Percentage	.390
1.058	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.743
0.7	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.4
9.4	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	5.5
75.0	Batter Rating	33.0
13.0	At Bats Per Home Run	34.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.50
3.07	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.05
.333	Isolated Power	.088
0.17	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.67
.024	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.146
.000	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.000
22.0	Runs Produced	10.0
0.8	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.7	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.4	Balls In Play Average	0.3
115.0	MLB Rating	83.3
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0