NEW YORK — Seth Lugo struck out 10 in seven masterful innings and Salvador Perez hit two run-scoring singles to succeed in 100 RBIs for the second time because the Kansas Metropolis Royals beat the New York Yankees 5-0 on Tuesday evening.
Tommy Pham homered and Bobby Witt Jr. had an RBI single for the Royals, who started the evening trailing first-place Cleveland by 3 1/2 video games within the AL Central. They held a 2 1/2-game edge over Minnesota for the second AL wild card.
New York got here in 1 1/2 video games forward of second-place Baltimore atop the AL East.
Lugo (16-8) carved up a full-strength Yankees lineup that entered main the majors in homers and ranked second in runs. The fitting-hander allowed solely three singles and walked none, retiring 17 straight batters after Gleyber Torres’ bloop hit to start the underside of the primary.
Torres snapped the string on one other smooth single with two outs within the sixth.
Kris Bubic and John Schreiber accomplished the three-hitter, as Lugo tied Atlanta ace Chris Sale and Detroit lefty Tarik Skubal for the most important league lead in wins.
The fitting-hander outpitched former Mets teammate Marcus Stroman (10-8), who permitted three runs and 7 hits in 5 1/3 innings.
No. 9 batter Kyle Isbel scored twice after leadoff singles for the Royals, who had dropped six consecutive street video games. They received for the fifth time in 13 video games general and improved to 2-4 in opposition to the Yankees this season.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Royals: RHP Michael Lorenzen (left hamstring pressure) was scheduled to pitch about three innings in a rehab outing with double-A Northwest Arkansas. He may rejoin the large league rotation after that. … LHP Will Smith (again spasms) deliberate to throw one other bullpen at lower than full depth. “He’s nonetheless not utterly symptom-free in his again. However he’s working by way of the bullpens,” supervisor Matt Quatraro mentioned. “It’s enhancing, it’s simply not utterly resolved.”
Yankees: Supervisor Aaron Boone didn’t rule out a return this season for infielder DJ LeMahieu (proper hip impingement), but in addition mentioned he wouldn’t depend on it, both.
UP NEXT
All-Star LHP Cole Ragans (11-9, 3.33 ERA) begins for Kansas Metropolis in opposition to rookie RHP Luis Gil (13-6, 3.24) within the rubber match of the three-game sequence Wednesday evening.
The primary Royals lefty with 200 strikeouts in a season, Ragans pitched six shutout innings to beat Minnesota final Friday evening. Gil returned that day from a decrease again pressure that landed him on the injured listing and threw six innings of one-hit ball in a 3-0 win over the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Discipline.