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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Vinnie Pasquantino doubled, homered and drove in five runs as the Kansas City Royals topped the Washington Nationals 8-5 to reach the .500 mark for the second time since mid-June.<\/p>\n

After a two-out, third-inning walk by Maikel Garcia and Bobby Witt Jr.\u2019s infield hit, Pasquantino hit Mitchell Parker\u2019s first-pitch fastball into the second row of the right field stands, a few feet inside the foul pole, expanding Kansas City\u2019s lead to 4-0.<\/p>\n

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Pasquantino opened the scoring with a first-inning sacrifice fly and capped the Royals scoring with an RBI double in the seventh.<\/p>\n

Jonathan India\u2019s two-run homer extended Kansas City\u2019s lead to 7-2 in the sixth.<\/p>\n

Michael Wacha (7-9) allowed two runs on five hits and two walks with three strikeouts in 5 2\/3 innings, his sixth consecutive start permitting fewer than three runs.<\/p>\n

Lucas Erceg earned his second save with a hitless ninth.<\/p>\n

In 5 1\/3 innings, Parker (7-13) allowed five runs on two hits with three walks and three strikeouts. Over his last three starts \u2014 all losses \u2014 Parker has allowed 17 runs in 14 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n

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Leaping at the center field wall, Robert Hassell III robbed Randal Grichuk<\/a> of a solo home run in the fifth.<\/p>\n

In the sixth, CJ Abrams scored when Witt misplayed Paul DeJong\u2019s deep pop fly<\/a>, cutting the Royals lead to 4-2.<\/p>\n

Abrams and James Wood collected two-out RBIs in the seventh. Wood recorded his fourth straight multihit game.<\/p>\n

Key moment<\/p>\n

On Witt\u2019s soft ground out between the plate and mound, Garcia hustled from first to third before scoring on Pasquantino\u2019s sacrifice fly as Kansas City took a 1-0 lead in a hitless first inning.<\/p>\n

Key stat<\/p>\n

Pasquantino leads the Royals 32 two-out RBIs and ranks second in the majors with 23 go-ahead RBIs.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Nationals RHP Jake Irvin (8-7, 4.90 ERA) opposes Royals RHP Seth Lugo (8-6, 3.46)<\/p>\n

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AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n

Marc Bowman, The Associated Press<\/p>\n<\/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 ca.sports.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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