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Ryan Jeffers went 3-for-4 with a pair of RBIs and the Minnesota Twins pulled away for a 9-4 win over the Kansas City Royals on Friday night in Minneapolis. <\/p>\n Kody Clemens went 2-for-5 with a homer and two RBIs for Minnesota, which won the series opener. Luke Keaschall and Royce Lewis also drove in two runs apiece. <\/p>\n Mike Yastrzemski and Bobby Witt Jr. each homered for Kansas City. Vinnie Pasquantino and Kyle Isbel also drove in a run for the Royals, who lost for the third time in their past four games. <\/p>\n Twins right-hander Joe Ryan allowed one run on four hits in five innings. He walked none and struck out five. <\/p>\n Royals right-hander Seth Lugo surrendered seven runs on nine hits in four innings. He walked two and fanned one. <\/p>\n The Royals started the scoring on the first at-bat of the game. Yastrzemski led off with a shot over the wall in right field for his 10th homer of the season and his second with Kansas City. <\/p>\n The Twins answered with three runs in the bottom of the first. Matt Wallner hit a solo home run, Keaschall ripped an RBI single and Lewis added an RBI groundout to shortstop. <\/p>\n One inning later, Minnesota increased its lead to 5-1. Mickey Gasper walked to lead off the inning, advanced to second base on a single by Alan Roden and scored on a single by Jeffers. Two batters later, Keaschall drove in another run when he singled to center to bring home Roden. <\/p>\n Clemens added a two-run homer in the fourth to increase the Twins’ lead to 7-1, a pull shot that traveled 379 feet down the right field line. <\/p>\n Witt cut the deficit to 7-2 with a mammoth home run in the sixth. The 25-year- old’s 456-foot shot to left marked the 17th home run of the season and No. 99 of his career. <\/p>\n The Twins notched two more runs in the sixth. Jeffers hit an RBI single to right and Lewis followed with an RBI double to left. <\/p>\n Pasquantino laced an RBI single to center in the eighth to cut the deficit to 9-3. <\/p>\n Isbel capped the scoring with an RBI single to center in the ninth. <\/p>\n Field Level Media <\/p>\n This article was generated from an automated news agency feed without modifications to text.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n <\/div><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.hindustantimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Published on: Aug 09, 2025 08:36 am IST BASEBALL-MLB-MIN-KC\/RECAP Ryan Jeffers went 3-for-4 with a pair of RBIs and the Minnesota Twins pulled away for a 9-4 win over the Kansas City Royals on Friday night in Minneapolis. Twins power past Royals in series opener Kody Clemens went 2-for-5 with a homer and two RBIs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1950876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[341342,43627,327041,334384,327045],"class_list":["post-1950875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-home-run","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-rbis","tag-ryan-jeffers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Twins-power-past-Royals-in-series-opener.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1950875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1950876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1950875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1950875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1950875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}