{"id":2444128,"date":"2026-06-04T02:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T02:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2444128"},"modified":"2026-06-04T02:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T02:39:08","slug":"massey-hits-tiebreaking-rbi-single-in-9th-inning-royals-beat-reds-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/massey-hits-tiebreaking-rbi-single-in-9th-inning-royals-beat-reds-5-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Massey hits tiebreaking RBI single in 9th inning, Royals beat Reds 5-2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CINCINNATI \u2014 Michael Massey hit a tiebreaking RBI single in the ninth inning, Vinnie Pasquantino and Nick Loftin homered and the Kansas City Royals beat the Cincinnati Reds 5-2 on Wednesday night to win the three-game series. <\/p>\n

Massey\u2019s line drive to right field off Tony Santillan (1-3) scored pinch-runner Tyler Tolbert and Loftin\u2019s first home run this season capped the scoring.<\/p>\n

Daniel Lynch IV (2-0) relieved starter Stephen Kolek in the eighth and did not allow a run before Alex Lange pitched a scoreless ninth for his first save \u2014 and his first save opportunity \u2014 since 2024 with Detroit. Kolek gave up two runs with eight strikeouts in seven innings.<\/p>\n

The Royals won their second road series and their first since a three-game sweep May 1-3 at Seattle. Kansas City is 2-4 in rubber games and 6-14 in series finales.<\/p>\n

Kansas City had lost seven of its previous eight games overall.<\/p>\n

Pasquantino, Massey and Jac Caglianone had two hits apiece. <\/p>\n

Reds starter Chase Burns allowed two runs and four hits with nine strikeouts in six innings. The 23-year-old has 81 strikeouts in 70 1\/3 innings this season. <\/p>\n

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Kansas City Royals pitcher Alex Lange, left, celebrates with catcher Carter Jensen following a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds in Cincinnati, Wednesday, June 3, 2026. Credit: AP\/Ben Jackson<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After Bobby Witt Jr. walked with one out in the first, Pasquantino’s shot over the wall in right field made it 2-0. <\/p>\n

Tyler Stephenson grounded into a 6-4-3 double play before Matt McLain singled and Blake Dunn followed with a two-run homer that tied it at 2 in the fifth. <\/p>\n

Dunn finished with two hits. <\/p>\n

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Kansas City kicks off a four-game set Thursday at Minnesota. Neither team has announced its starter. <\/p>\n

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Kansas City Royals’ Michael Massey (19) hits an RBI single during the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds in Cincinnati, Wednesday, June 3, 2026. Credit: AP\/Ben Jackson<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Reds RHP Brady Singer (2-5, 6.18 ERA) starts Friday in the opener of a three-game series at St. Louis against RHP Kyle Leahy (5-3, 4.25). <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.newsday.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CINCINNATI \u2014 Michael Massey hit a tiebreaking RBI single in the ninth inning, Vinnie Pasquantino and Nick Loftin homered and the Kansas City Royals beat the Cincinnati Reds 5-2 on Wednesday night to win the three-game series. Massey\u2019s line drive to right field off Tony Santillan (1-3) scored pinch-runner Tyler Tolbert and Loftin\u2019s first home […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2444129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[43627,25866,307696],"class_list":["post-2444128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-mlb","tag-wires-bot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Massey-hits-tiebreaking-RBI-single-in-9th-inning-Royals-beat.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444128","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=2444128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2444130,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444128\/revisions\/2444130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2444129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}