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PHILADELPHIA — <\/span>Salvador Perez hit a three-run homer and drove in five runs, helping the Kansas City Royals overcome Kyle Schwarber’s NL-high 52nd homer and delay the Philadelphia Phillies from clinching the NL East with a 10-3 win Sunday.<\/p>\n Philadelphia, which entered with a six-game winning steak, leads the NL East by 12 games over the second-place New York Mets.<\/p>\n Perez hit his third homer in two games, a three-run drive off Aaron Nola (4-9) in a four-run sixth that built a 6-2 lead. He added a two-run single in the seventh as the Royals ended a six-game losing streak.<\/p>\n Kansas City Royals’ Salvador Perez hits a three-run home run off of Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Aaron Nola, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2025, in Philadelphia.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n AP Photo\/Matt Rourke<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Schwarber and J.T. Realmuto homered in the first off Noah Cameron (8-7), who allowed two runs and four hits in seven innings.ac Caglianone tied the score with a two-run homer in the fifth and Bobby Witt Jr. homered in the ninth against Max Lazar.<\/p>\n Royals closer Carlos Est\u00e9vez got two outs in the ninth before leaving with mild back tightness.<\/p>\n Bryson Stott also homered for the Phillies.<\/p>\n Nola allowed six runs and six hits in six innings.<\/p>\n Key moment<\/strong> Key stats<\/strong> Up next<\/strong> Phillies: LHP Rangers Su\u00e1rez (12-6, 2.77) starts Monday night’s series opener at the Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Copyright \u00a9 2025 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source 6abc.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PHILADELPHIA — Salvador Perez hit a three-run homer and drove in five runs, helping the Kansas City Royals overcome Kyle Schwarber’s NL-high 52nd homer and delay the Philadelphia Phillies from clinching the NL East with a 10-3 win Sunday. Philadelphia, which entered with a six-game winning steak, leads the NL East by 12 games over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2022382,"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":[371887],"class_list":["post-2022381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-371887"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Perezs-5-RBIs-lead-Royals-over-Phillies-10-3-and-delay-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022381","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=2022381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2022382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2022381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2022381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2022381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Witt led off the sixth with a triple off the high wall in right and scored on a double by Vinny Pasquantino, who had three hits.<\/p>\n
Kansas City has been swept in series just four times this season, second-fewest in the AL.<\/p>\n
Royals: Host Seattle and RHP Logan Gilbert (4-6, 3.54) in a series starting Tuesday.<\/p>\n