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KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 Luinder Avila struck out a career-high seven and Nick Loftin hit a tiebreaking RBI single as the Kansas City Royals beat the San Francisco Giants 3-2 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Avila (5-3) allowed five hits and two runs in 6 1\/3 innings. It was the longest outing in 10 career starts for the 24-year-old right-hander. Matt Strahm, John Schreiber and Alex Lange worked hitless innings of relief. Lange struck out two in the ninth inning and earned his ninth save.<\/p>\n

Giants starter Tyler Mahle (2-9) struck out four and allowed five hits and three earned runs in five innings.<\/p>\n

Carter Jensen opened the scoring with a solo homer in the bottom of the third. It was Jensen’s 14th homer of the season and the fifth straight game that the Royals have homered.<\/p>\n

San Francisco’s Jesus Rodriguez doubled with two out in the fifth and scored on a single by Drew Gilbert. Gilbert advanced on a single by Christian Koss and scored when Royals shortstop Tyler Tolbert bobbled a grounder off the bat of Heliot Ramos.<\/p>\n

Kansas City’s Isaac Collins walked leading off the sixth and advanced when Sam Hentges hit Salvador Perez with a pitch. Vinnie Pasquantino extended his hitting streak to 16 games with an RBI single to center that tied the game. Loftin then put the Royals ahead to stay with a bases-loaded single.<\/p>\n

Pasquantino and Loftin each went 2 for 3.<\/p>\n

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Kansas City Royals’ Nick Loftin hits an RBI single during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the San Francisco Giants Tuesday, July 21, 2026, in Kansas City, Mo. Credit: AP\/Charlie Riedel<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Royals right fielder Jac Caglianone left after the fifth inning with right shoulder soreness. He was 0 for 2 with a groundout and a strikeout before being replaced by Isaac Collins.<\/p>\n

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Giants RHP Landen Roupp (7-8, 3.98 ERA) starts Wednesday against Royals RHP Seth Lugo (3-6, 4.39).<\/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":"

KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 Luinder Avila struck out a career-high seven and Nick Loftin hit a tiebreaking RBI single as the Kansas City Royals beat the San Francisco Giants 3-2 on Tuesday night. Avila (5-3) allowed five hits and two runs in 6 1\/3 innings. It was the longest outing in 10 career starts for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2511895,"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":[43627,25866,319715,307696],"class_list":["post-2511894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-mlb","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-wires-bot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Avila-and-Loftin-power-the-Royals-to-a-3-2-win.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511894","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=2511894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2511896,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511894\/revisions\/2511896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2511895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2511894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2511894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2511894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}