Tampa Bay Rays at Kansas City Royals

· Major League Baseball

Tampa Bay Rays

51-33, 20-21 Away

Final
5 - 2

Kansas City Royals

35-53, 19-25 Home

Mullins' 2-run homer, Seymour's sharp outing lift Rays to 8th straight win, 5-2 over Royals

Taylor Walls, Richie Palacios and Hunter Feduccia also drove in runs for the red-hot Rays, though Junior Caminero had his home run streak end at six games. The slugging third baseman went 0 for 5.

Seymour (5-1) allowed a leadoff homer to Carter Jensen but just two more hits over six crisp innings, striking out eight and walking one. Cam Booser and Garrett Cleavinger got the game to Bryan Baker, who handled the ninth for his 22nd save.

Stephen Kolek (4-3) struggled for the Royals in his first start since his wife gave birth to their daughter, Faye, last week. He cruised through the first but allowed three runs on four hits and a walk in the second, and he did not return for the third.

Kolek matched a career high by allowing nine runs in just 1 2/3 innings in his most recent start June 21 against St. Louis.

He didn't get much help from his defense in the second inning. Royals right fielder Kameron Misner had a flyball by Walls bounce off his glove at the warning track for a two-out double, and he also misplayed an RBI triple by Feduccia later in the inning — both would've been difficult catches looking back into the setting sun.

The score was still 3-1 in the fifth when Simpson singled for his third straight at-bat. His two-out hit set the table for Mullins, who hit Randy Dobnak's 91 mph sinker into the right field bullpen to give Tampa Bay some breathing room.

Isaac Collins homered in the seventh for Kansas City, which has lost seven of its last eight games.

Up next The Rays continue their six-game road trip on Friday night in Houston. RHP Nick Martinez (7-2, 2.66 ERA) gets the start.

The Royals are off Friday night as Arrowhead Stadium hosts the Colombia-Ghana match in the World Cup across the parking lot from Kauffman Stadium. RHP Michael Wacha (5-5, 3.31) will start their series opener against Philadelphia on Saturday.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Massey grounded out to second.
	9th Inning	Loftin flied out to center.
	9th Inning	Rojas struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Baker relieved Cleavinger
	9th Inning	Fortes catching.
	9th Inning	Rojas hit for Marte

Statistics

TB		KC
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
14	Ground Balls	13
3	Strikeouts	10
5	Runs Batted In	2
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
11	Hits	5
1	Stolen Bases	1
3	Walks	1
0	Catcher Interference	0
5	Runs	2
1	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
36	At Bats	33
1	Home Runs	2
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
10	Runners Left On Base	8
1	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	1
19	Fly Balls	10
0	Caught Stealing	0
152	Pitches	116
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	1
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	1
17	Total Bases	12
39	Plate Appearances	34
162.0	Projected Home Runs	324.0
3	Extra Base Hits	3
6.0	Runs Created	2.2
.306	Batting Average	.152
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.472	Slugging Percentage	.364
.278	Secondary Average	.273
.359	On Base Percentage	.176
.831	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.540
0.7	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	1.3
6.2	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	2.1
39.5	Batter Rating	22.0
36.0	At Bats Per Home Run	16.5
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.90	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.41
.167	Isolated Power	.212
1.00	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.10
.077	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.029
-.028	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.121
10.0	Runs Produced	4.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.5	Patience Ratio	0.4
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.1
91.0	MLB Rating	71.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0