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KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 Stephen Kolek threw a complete-game shutout and Carter Jensen had two RBIs and the Kansas City Royals shut out the Seattle Mariners 5-0 on Saturday to end a four-game losing streak.<\/p>\n
Kolek (3-0) allowed a walk, four hits and struck out two. He only needed 108 pitches to go all nine innings in a game that lasted only 2:06. The 108 pitches were four more than his previous career high.<\/p>\n
It was Kolek’s second career shutout in 23 starts and the seventh complete game and fourth shutout in the major leagues this season. Kolek\u2019s other shutout was a five-hitter in a 21-0 win at Colorado on May 10 of last season while pitching for San Diego.<\/p>\n
Kolek joined Chris Archer and Mike Montgomery as the only pitchers to debut since 2010 with two shutouts in their first 23 career starts.<\/p>\n
The Royals took a 3-0 lead in the first inning. Maikel Garcia led off with a double and scored on a fielder’s choice grounder by Vinnie Pasquantino. Jensen had a RBI grounder and Pasquantino later scored on Jac Caglianone’s single. <\/p>\n
Jensen added a sacrifice fly in the third inning that scored Bobby Witt Jr., who went 2 for 4 and scored twice. <\/p>\n
Kansas City added a run in the sixth on Isaac Collins’ RBI single that scored Jensen. <\/p>\n Kansas City Royals’ Carter Jensen watches his RBI single during the first inning of a baseball game against the Seattle Mariners, Saturday, May 23, 2026, in Kansas City, Mo. Credit: AP\/Charlie Riedel<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n George Kirby (5-4) went six innings and gave up all five runs, three earned, and nine hits and struck out three.<\/p>\n The Mariners will send RHP Bryan Woo (4-2, 3.51 ERA) to the mound and the Royals will start RHP Seth Lugo (1-4, 3.68) in the series finale on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\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 www.newsday.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 Stephen Kolek threw a complete-game shutout and Carter Jensen had two RBIs and the Kansas City Royals shut out the Seattle Mariners 5-0 on Saturday to end a four-game losing streak. Kolek (3-0) allowed a walk, four hits and struck out two. He only needed 108 pitches to go all nine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2429754,"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":[43627,25866,326780,307696],"class_list":["post-2429753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-mlb","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-wires-bot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Kolek-throws-complete-game-shutout-and-Royals-top-Mariners-to-end.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429753","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=2429753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2429755,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429753\/revisions\/2429755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2429754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2429753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2429753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2429753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Up next<\/h2>\n