KANSAS CITY — Luke Maile, Salvador Perez, Lane Thomas and Tyler Tolbert homered to lead the Kansas City Royals to a 15-1 rout of the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday afternoon at Kauffman Stadium.
Tolbert was 5-for-5 with three runs and two RBI after going 2-for-2 in his last game Saturday for the Royals, who scored in all eight of the innings they batted Monday in taking two of three in the series.
Kansas City had a season-high 22 hits.
Trea Turner was 3-for-4 for the Phillies, who have lost three of their past four games.
Royals starting pitcher Noah Cameron (5-6) allowed a run and six hits in five innings with five walks and seven strikeouts.
All-Star left-hander Cristopher Sanchez (10-4) started for Philadelphia and gave up a career-high nine runs on 12 hits in 3⅓ innings with a walk and a strikeout.
Kansas City scored six runs in the first, highlighted by Maile’s two-out, three-run homer that made it 6-1. It came in his first at-bat of the season for the Royals after being recalled from Triple-A Omaha. His drive to the opposite field bounced off the top of the fence in right-center field and over for Maile’s first home run of the season and 23rd of the 11-year major-league career.
The Royals’ first three runs came on shortstop Turner’s throwing error and RBI singles by Nick Loftin and Starling Marte.
Perez’s solo homer in the second made it 7-1. It was his 11th of the season and 314th of his career, three short of George Brett’s team record.
Tolbert’s run-scoring double in the third increased the lead to 8-1 and Thomas’ home run in the fourth, his sixth, made it 9-1.
Tolbert’s solo shot in the fifth, his first homer, ran it to 10-1, and Marte’s RBI single in the sixth raised it to 11-1.
Jac Caglianone’s run-scoring single and Loftin’s bases-loaded groundout in the seventh added two for a 13-1 count.
Michael Massey and Caglianone hit run-scoring singles in the eighth for the final margin.
Alec Bohm’s RBI double gave Philadelphia the lead in the first.
Philadelphia’s Kyle Schwarber was ejected by home-plate umpire Alan Porter after Schwarber’s third strikeout of the game in the sixth.
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