{"id":2402524,"date":"2026-05-05T03:40:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T03:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2402524"},"modified":"2026-05-05T03:40:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T03:40:29","slug":"michael-wacha-delivers-7-sharp-innings-as-royals-dump-guardians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/michael-wacha-delivers-7-sharp-innings-as-royals-dump-guardians\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Wacha delivers 7 sharp innings as Royals dump Guardians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Bobby Witt Jr.\u2019s solo homer ignited a four-run fourth inning, Michael Wacha threw seven solid innings and the Kansas City Royals won their fourth straight game, 6-2 over the visiting Cleveland Guardians on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Vinnie Pasquantino added two hits with an RBI for the Royals, who overcame an early 2-0 hole to win for the ninth time in 12 games after losing eight in a row.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardians, who have dropped two straight following a three-game winning streak, opened the scoring in the second inning. Rookie Travis Bazzana singled to right field with one out, then David Fry (2-for-3) sent a Wacha cutter over the left-center field fence for his second homer in three games.<\/p>\n<p>That was all the damage allowed by Wacha (3-2), who gave up four hits and a walk to get back on track from yielding 10 runs over 10 1\/3 innings while losing each of his previous two starts.<\/p>\n<p>Bibee then loaded the bases with no outs but struck out Jac Caglianone and Isaac Collins before Nick Loftin\u2019s single through the shortstop hole plated two for a 4-2 Kansas City lead.<\/p>\n<p>Bibee was done after four innings, having allowed four runs on five hits and two walks with four strikeouts. He threw 39 of his 77 pitches in the fourth inning.<\/p>\n<p>Caglianone went deep in the sixth, sending a Matt Festa pitch well over the right field wall for a two-out solo homer.<\/p>\n<p>The Royals added another run in the seventh. Witt reached on an error, went to second on a wild pitch, stole third and scored on Pasquantino\u2019s single to right.<\/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.joxfm.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobby Witt Jr.\u2019s solo homer ignited a four-run fourth inning, Michael Wacha threw seven solid innings and the Kansas City Royals won their fourth straight game, 6-2 over the visiting Cleveland Guardians on Monday night. Vinnie Pasquantino added two hits with an RBI for the Royals, who overcame an early 2-0 hole to win for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2402513,"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-2402524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Michael-Wacha-delivers-7-sharp-innings-as-Royals-dump-Guardians.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402524","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=2402524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2402525,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402524\/revisions\/2402525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2402513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2402524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2402524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2402524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}