{"id":2054963,"date":"2025-09-27T23:55:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T23:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2054963"},"modified":"2025-09-27T23:55:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T23:55:28","slug":"pasquantino-has-hr-and-3-rbis-witt-gets-4-hits-as-royals-beat-angels-9-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/pasquantino-has-hr-and-3-rbis-witt-gets-4-hits-as-royals-beat-angels-9-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Pasquantino has HR and 3 RBIs, Witt gets 4 hits as Royals beat Angels 9-4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Vinnie Pasquantino homered and drove in three runs, Bobby Witt Jr. had four hits and the Kansas City Royals beat the Los Angeles Angels 9-4 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Lorenzen (7-11) gave up two earned runs and five hits with a season-high nine strikeouts and no walks in 5 2\/3 innings for the Royals.<\/p>\n<p>Jo Adell, Nolan Schanuel and Mike Trout each homered for the Angels. Trout&#8217;s two-run shot \u2014 his 23rd of the season and 401st of his career \u2014 cut Kansas City&#8217;s lead to 5-4 in eighth.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Royals scored four in the top of the ninth, a rally highlighted by Salvador Perez&#8217;s two-out, three-run double off Angels reliever Sam Bachman, to pull away.<\/p>\n<p>Mitch Farris (1-3) gave up four earned runs and five hits in five innings, striking out five and walking two, for the Angels, who have lost 11 of 13 games.<\/p>\n<p>Pasquantino&#8217;s team-leading 32nd homer, a two-run shot to right field in the first, gave him a team-high 110 RBIs on the season. Adell pulled the Angels to 2-1 in the second with his team-high 37th homer.<\/p>\n<p>Pasquantino had a run-scoring fielder&#8217;s choice in the third and Witt had an RBI double in the fifth to push the lead to 5-1.<\/p>\n<p>Schanuel&#8217;s solo shot in the sixth brought the Angels back within two, but Adam Frazier&#8217;s pinch-hit RBI single in the eighth made it 5-2.<\/p>\n<h3>Key moment<\/h3>\n<p>Bachman was one strike away from escaping a bases-loaded jam in the ninth, but Perez hit a drive off the base of the center-field wall for his game-breaking hit.<\/p>\n<h3>Key stat<\/h3>\n<p>The Angels struck out 13 times, bringing their major league-leading total to 1,603 \u2014 tied for fourth-most in major league history. With three games left, the Angels are 51 shy of Minnesota&#8217;s single-season record of 1,654 strikeouts, set in 2023.<\/p>\n<h3\/>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Angels RHP Kyle Hendricks (8-10, 4.79 ERA) will start against Astros RHP Jason Alexander (4-2, 4.83 ERA) at home on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Royals LHP Noah Cameron (9-7, 2.90 ERA) will start against Athletics RHP Luis Morales (4-2, 3.07) on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p><\/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.cbsnews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vinnie Pasquantino homered and drove in three runs, Bobby Witt Jr. had four hits and the Kansas City Royals beat the Los Angeles Angels 9-4 on Thursday night. Michael Lorenzen (7-11) gave up two earned runs and five hits with a season-high nine strikeouts and no walks in 5 2\/3 innings for the Royals. 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