{"id":1964870,"date":"2025-08-17T04:36:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T04:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1964870"},"modified":"2025-08-17T04:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T04:36:16","slug":"rave-fills-in-nicely-for-pasquantino-in-royals-6-2-victory-over-the-white-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/rave-fills-in-nicely-for-pasquantino-in-royals-6-2-victory-over-the-white-sox\/","title":{"rendered":"Rave fills in nicely for Pasquantino in Royals&#8217; 6-2 victory over the White Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 John Rave homered playing in place of the ailing Vinnie Pasquantino and the Kansas City Royals beat Chicago White Sox 6-2 on Saturday night to move above .500 for the first time since June 10.<\/p>\n<p>Pasquantino left in the first inning because of heat-related illness. The game-time temperature was 94 degrees, with the humidity above 50%. Nick Loftin moved to first base, and Rave took over for Loftin in left.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Lorenzen made his first start for Kansas City since July 6. He allowed three hits in four scoreless innings. Daniel Lynch IV (5-2) was the winner.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Yastrzemski led off the first with a homer off Sean Burke (4-10). The Royals added an unearned run in the second, and Rave made it 3-0 in the third with his fourth home.<\/p>\n<p>In the fifth, Rave singled and scored on Maikel Garcia\u2019s two-run double. Loftin had an RBI single in the sixth.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Benintendi doubled in two runs for Chicago in the eighth.<\/p>\n<h2>Key moment<\/h2>\n<p>Rave\u2019s homer in his first at-bat.<\/p>\n<h2>Key stat<\/h2>\n<p>The Royals (62-61) had lost in their last five chances to move above .500.<\/p>\n<h2>Up next<\/h2>\n<p>Chicago RHP Davis Martin (4-9, 4.17 ERA) was set to start opposite RHP Ryan Bergert (1-1, 2.87) on Sunday in the series finale.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '870613919693099',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source apnews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 John Rave homered playing in place of the ailing Vinnie Pasquantino and the Kansas City Royals beat Chicago White Sox 6-2 on Saturday night to move above .500 for the first time since June 10. Pasquantino left in the first inning because of heat-related illness. 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