{"id":1976092,"date":"2025-08-23T12:59:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T12:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1976092"},"modified":"2025-08-23T12:59:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T12:59:43","slug":"rangers-6-3-royals-aug-20-2025-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/rangers-6-3-royals-aug-20-2025-game-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers 6-3 Royals (Aug 20, 2025) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. &#8212; \u2014 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/30545\/kyle-higashioka\">Kyle Higashioka<\/a> had a three-run double in the ninth inning after a two-out error by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4109109\/vinnie-pasquantino\">Vinnie Pasquantino<\/a>, and the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tex\/texas-rangers\">Texas Rangers<\/a> rallied to beat the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/kc\/kansas-city-royals\">Kansas City Royals<\/a> 6-3 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>              <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4719324\/wyatt-langford\">Wyatt Langford<\/a> drew a two-out walk from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/42262\/sam-long\">Sam Long<\/a> (1-3) and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32691\/corey-seager\">Corey Seager<\/a> was safe when Pasquantino misplayed his slow roller at first. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32146\/marcus-semien\">Marcus Semien<\/a> reached on an infield hit before Higashioka doubled down the left-field line.<\/p>\n<p>              <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/36088\/hoby-milner\">Hoby Milner<\/a> (2-3) got the final four outs for the win.<\/p>\n<p>              <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33341\/mike-yastrzemski\">Mike Yastrzemski<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/42403\/bobby-witt-jr\">Bobby Witt Jr<\/a>. led off the first with singles off fill-in first-time starter <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41975\/caleb-boushley\">Caleb Boushley<\/a>, 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 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32796\/jacob-degrom\">Jacob deGrom<\/a>, 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 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4417208\/noah-cameron\">Noah Cameron<\/a>. 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>              <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33842\/jonah-heim\">Jonah Heim<\/a> had a leadoff double off <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41227\/daniel-lynch-iv\">Daniel Lynch IV<\/a> in the seventh before scoring on Seager&#8217;s two-out single off <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/36618\/lucas-erceg\">Lucas Erceg<\/a> to tie it 3-3. <\/p>\n<p>              <hl2>Key moment<\/hl2>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>              Higashioka&#8217;s double gave Texas its first lead since the first inning.<\/p>\n<p>              <hl2>Key stat<\/hl2>&#13;<\/p>\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<p>              <hl2>Up next<\/hl2>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>              LHP <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/31313\/patrick-corbin\">Patrick Corbin<\/a> (6-9, 4.45) was set to start Thursday as the Rangers go for a split of the four-game series opposite Royals RHP <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33252\/michael-lorenzen\">Michael Lorenzen<\/a> (5-8, 4.43).<\/p>\n<p>              &#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>              AP MLB: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/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 www.espn.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. &#8212; \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":1976093,"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":[],"class_list":["post-1976092","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\/Rangers-6-3-Royals-Aug-20-2025-Game-Recap.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976092","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=1976092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1976093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}