{"id":2013118,"date":"2025-09-11T02:24:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T02:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2013118"},"modified":"2025-09-11T02:24:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T02:24:48","slug":"royals-late-rally-snaps-guardians-five-game-win-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royals-late-rally-snaps-guardians-five-game-win-streak\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals\u2019 late rally snaps Guardians\u2019 five-game win streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Pinch hitter Nick Loftin hit a game-tying single in the seventh inning before scoring the go-ahead run on Maikel Garcia\u2019s double as the visiting Kansas City Royals edged the Cleveland Guardians 4-3 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardians (74-71) had their five-game win streak snapped and fell three behind the Mariners, who are in the third and final American League wild-card spot. Seattle was due to play host to the St. Louis Cardinals later Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City (74-72) moved within 3 1\/2 of Seattle, while the Texas Rangers are one out. The Royals had lost their previous three, including two in Cleveland by a combined margin of 12-2.<\/p>\n<p>Royals reliever Luinder Avila (1-0) tossed two scoreless innings for his first big-league win. Carlos Estevez pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for his 39th save, which leads the majors.<\/p>\n<p>Guardians reliever Tim Herrin (5-4) gave up two runs, one hit and one walk while only getting one out. Hunter Gaddis replaced him and allowed Garcia\u2019s go-ahead smash off the wall in left.<\/p>\n<p>Bo Naylor put the Guardians in front 3-2 in the fourth, singling in Angel Martinez. Kansas City had pulled even in the third on Vinnie Pasquantino\u2019s single that plated Bobby Witt Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Guardians starter Logan Allen went five innings, allowing two runs on seven hits with two strikeouts. The left-hander did not issue a walk, but he extended his winless streak to seven starts since beating the Colorado Rockies on July 29.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Manzardo gave Cleveland a 2-1 advantage in the first with a two-run homer off Jonathan Bowlan, scoring rookie George Valera, who had walked.<\/p>\n<p>In the top half of the inning, Jonathan India singled off the glove of second baseman Daniel Schneemann to plate Garcia. It was the Royals\u2019 initial lead in the four-game series that concludes Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Bowlan, who is in his eighth stint with Kansas City this season, made his initial start after 26 relief appearances. The right-hander gave up two runs on three hits in two innings, striking out three with one walk.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\">\n\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- #entry-meta -->\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v23.0\"><\/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 www.thesportsleader.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pinch hitter Nick Loftin hit a game-tying single in the seventh inning before scoring the go-ahead run on Maikel Garcia\u2019s double as the visiting Kansas City Royals edged the Cleveland Guardians 4-3 on Wednesday. The Guardians (74-71) had their five-game win streak snapped and fell three behind the Mariners, who are in the third and [&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-2013118","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\/2013118","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=2013118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}