{"id":1972627,"date":"2025-08-21T16:27:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T16:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1972627"},"modified":"2025-08-21T16:27:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T16:27:41","slug":"%e2%9a%be-higashiokas-3-run-double-in-the-9th-helps-the-rangers-beat-the-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/%e2%9a%be-higashiokas-3-run-double-in-the-9th-helps-the-rangers-beat-the-royals\/","title":{"rendered":"\u26be Higashioka&#8217;s 3-run double in the 9th helps the Rangers beat the Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Kyle Higashioka had a three-run double in the ninth inning after a two-out error by Vinnie Pasquantino, and the Texas Rangers rallied to beat the Kansas City Royals 6-3 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Wyatt Langford drew a two-out walk from Sam Long (1-3) and Corey Seager was safe when Pasquantino misplayed his slow roller at first. Marcus Semien reached on an infield hit before Higashioka doubled down the left-field line.<\/p>\n<p>Hoby Milner (2-3) got the final four outs for the win.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Yastrzemski and Bobby Witt Jr. led off the first with singles off fill-in first-time starter Caleb Boushley, and Pasquantino followed with his 25th home run to put the Royals up 3-1. Witt had three hits for the Royals, including his 39th double \u2014 tops in the majors.<\/p>\n<p>Boushley filled in for Jacob deGrom, who had his start skipped after he experienced arm fatigue following his last outing. Boushley pitched two scoreless innings following his 38-pitch first.<\/p>\n<p>Langford hit his 18th home run to lead off the game against rookie Noah Cameron. Langford singled and scored on a two-out base hit by Semien to cut it to 3-2 in the third.<\/p>\n<p>Cameron allowed two runs on three hits and three walks in 4 2\/3 innings as Kansas City saw a five-game win streak end.<\/p>\n<p>Jonah Heim had a leadoff double off Daniel Lynch IV in the seventh before scoring on Seager&#8217;s two-out single off Lucas Erceg to tie it 3-3.<\/p>\n<h2>Key moment<\/h2>\n<p>Higashioka&#8217;s double gave Texas its first lead since the first inning.<\/p>\n<h2>Key stat<\/h2>\n<p>The Royals have hit the fewest home runs in the American League but they&#8217;ve outhomered the Rangers 14-3 in winning five of six matchups this season.<\/p>\n<h2>Up next<\/h2>\n<p>LHP Patrick Corbin (6-9, 4.45) was set to start Thursday as the Rangers go for a split of the four-game series opposite Royals RHP Michael Lorenzen (5-8, 4.43).<\/p>\n<\/div>\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 jcpost.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Kyle Higashioka had a three-run double in the ninth inning after a two-out error by Vinnie Pasquantino, and the Texas Rangers rallied to beat the Kansas City Royals 6-3 on Wednesday night. Wyatt Langford drew a two-out walk from Sam Long (1-3) and Corey Seager was safe when Pasquantino misplayed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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-1972627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972627","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=1972627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}