Kansas City Royals at Tampa Bay Rays

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Kansas City Royals

34-48, 15-26 Away

Final
2 - 13

Tampa Bay Rays

45-33, 28-12 Home

Caminero has three homers against Royals, Rays combine for 8 1/3 no-hit innings in 13-2 win

Junior Caminero clobbers 3 HRs in Rays' 13-2 rout of Royals

Opener Casey Legumina retired the first four batters before Ian Seymour (4-1) took over in the second inning. The pair combined to retire the first 16 Kansas City batters before Starling Marte drew a one-out walk in the sixth off Seymour.

Craig Kimbrel started the ninth with a walk to Marte, then struck out Tyler Tolbert before allowing a two-run home run to Carter Jensen to the right-field stands for the Royals’ only hit of the game.

The Rays salvaged a split of the four-game series after dropping the first two games.

Tolbert, who started at shortstop for Kansas City, moved to the mound for the eighth inning, allowing five runs on six hits.

Caminero tied a franchise record with his three home runs and registered his sixth career multi-homer game and second this season. He hit a two-run home run in the first inning and added a solo shot in the fifth, both off Seth Lugo (3-5), before going deep off Tolbert in the ninth. Mesa hit a three-run shot to right field in the fourth.

Tampa Bay’s Yandy Diaz extended his hitting streak to nine games with a seventh-inning double.

Up next Royals open a three-game series at the Chicago White Sox on Friday, with both teams yet to announce a starter.

Rays open a three-game series at home on Friday against Arizona with RHP Nick Martinez (6-2, 2.73 ERA) set to start while the Diamondbacks had yet to announce their starter.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Caglianone struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Loftin flied out to right.
	9th Inning	Jensen homered to right center (425 feet), Marte scored.
	9th Inning	Tolbert struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Marte walked.
	9th Inning	Kimbrel relieved Seymour

Statistics

KC		TB
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
5	Ground Balls	12
9	Strikeouts	5
2	Runs Batted In	13
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
1	Hits	15
0	Stolen Bases	1
2	Walks	2
0	Catcher Interference	0
2	Runs	13
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
28	At Bats	39
1	Home Runs	4
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
3	Runners Left On Base	9
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	3
14	Fly Balls	22
0	Caught Stealing	0
129	Pitches	153
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	1
0	Pinch Hits	1
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
4	Total Bases	30
30	Plate Appearances	41
162.0	Projected Home Runs	648.0
1	Extra Base Hits	7
-0.8	Runs Created	11.3
.036	Batting Average	.385
.000	Pinch Hit Average	1.000
.143	Slugging Percentage	.769
.179	Secondary Average	.462
.100	On Base Percentage	.415
.243	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	1.184
0.4	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.5
-0.8	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	12.7
12.0	Batter Rating	86.0
28.0	At Bats Per Home Run	9.8
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
4.30	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.73
.107	Isolated Power	.385
0.22	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.40
.067	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.049
.143	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.077
4.0	Runs Produced	26.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.2	Patience Ratio	0.8
0.0	Balls In Play Average	0.4
59.5	MLB Rating	123.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0