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CINCINNATI (AP) – 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
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
Up next<\/strong><\/p>\n Kansas City kicks off a four-game set Thursday at Minnesota. Neither team has announced its starter.<\/p>\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 \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 local12.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CINCINNATI (AP) – 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2444164,"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-2444163","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\/06\/Santillans-struggles-continue-unravels-in-9th-as-Reds-fall-to.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444163","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=2444163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2444165,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444163\/revisions\/2444165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2444164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}