{"id":1968114,"date":"2025-08-19T06:23:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T06:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1968114"},"modified":"2025-08-19T06:23:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T06:23:50","slug":"royals-hit-three-homers-in-win-over-skidding-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royals-hit-three-homers-in-win-over-skidding-rangers\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals hit three homers in win over skidding Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Royals hit three homers in win over skidding Rangers<\/h2>\n

Published 12:54 am Tuesday, August 19, 2025<\/p>\n

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 Mike Yastrzemski, Vinnie Pasquantino and Maikel Garcia homered to provide all of Kansas City\u2019s offense, Michael Wacha pitched 5 2\/3 effective innings and the surging Royals beat the Texas Rangers 4-3 on Monday night.<\/p>\n

In a matchup of teams trying to reach an American League wild-card position, Kansas City had just enough offense to win its fourth straight and improve to 6-1 on a 10-game homestand.<\/p>\n

The Royals, 17-9 since July 20, got two hits apiece from Yastrzemski and Garcia. Wacha (8-9) permitted nine hits but limited Texas to two runs. He struck out three and walked none. Wacha has yielded two or fewer runs in seven consecutive starts.<\/p>\n

Carlos Estevez pitched a perfect ninth inning for his career-high 32nd save.<\/p>\n

Corey Seager had three hits and Evan Carter added two with an RBI for Texas, which is behind Kansas City in the wild-card chase and has lost nine of 11.<\/p>\n

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Rangers starter Jack Leiter (7-7) gave up three runs, six hits and three walks while lasting just 3 2\/3 innings for the Rangers, who are 0-4 against the Royals in 2025. Leiter fanned five.<\/p>\n

For the third time in 15 games as a Royal, Yastrzemski led off with a homer, this time taking a Leiter pitch over the right-center-field wall.<\/p>\n

Texas tied it in the second when Wacha allowed singles to Marcus Semien, Joc Pederson and Jonah Heim during a stretch of four batters. The Rangers nearly went ahead, but Royals right fielder John Rave threw out Pederson at the plate on Josh Smith\u2019s fly ball, ending the frame.<\/p>\n

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Kansas City regained the lead in the third. Leiter walked Bobby Witt Jr., who scored when Pasquantino lined a pitch into the seats, just inside the right field foul pole.<\/p>\n

Garcia made it 4-1 when his blast hugged the left field foul pole to lead off the fifth against Luis Curvelo.<\/p>\n

The Rangers got a run back in the sixth via Carter\u2019s two-out RBI single off Wacha. They made it a one-run game in the eighth after Wyatt Langford hit a one-out single, went to third on Seager\u2019s double and scored via Rowdy Tellez\u2019s groundout.<\/p>\n

Kansas City catcher Salvador Perez was scratched due to an illness.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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Royals hit three homers in win over skidding Rangers Published 12:54 am Tuesday, August 19, 2025 KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 Mike Yastrzemski, Vinnie Pasquantino and Maikel Garcia homered to provide all of Kansas City\u2019s offense, Michael Wacha pitched 5 2\/3 effective innings and the surging Royals beat the Texas Rangers 4-3 on Monday night. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1968115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1968114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Royals-hit-three-homers-in-win-over-skidding-Rangers.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968114","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=1968114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1968115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}