Kansas City 9, Pittsburgh 6
When: 6:35 PM ET, Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Where: PNC Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Temperature:
79°
Umpires:
Home -
Jose Navas, 1B -
Jeremie Rehak, 2B -
Scott Barry, 3B -
Andy Fletcher
Attendance:
4226
By Field Level Media
Jorge Soler was 3-for-5 and drove in three runs with two doubles and a single Wednesday as the visiting Kansas City Royals topped the Pittsburgh Pirates 9-6 for a split of their two-game series.
Hunter Dozier added a two-run triple, Andrew Benintendi a two-run double and Salvador Perez had three hits, including a double, and drove in a run for the Royals.
Kansas City starter Mike Minor pitched 4 1/3 innings, allowing five runs, four earned, and six hits, with three walks and six strikeouts.
Kyle Zimmer (2-0) followed Minor with a scoreless two-thirds of an inning.
Josh Staumont pitched the final 1 1/3 innings for his third save.
Erik Gonzalez hit a two-run homer, Jacob Stallings a solo homer, Todd Frazier a two-run double and Phillip Evans an RBI single for Pittsburgh.
Pirates starter Mitch Keller (1-3) made it through 2 1/3 innings, giving up four runs and three hits, with five walks and two strikeouts.
Carlos Santana drew a one-out walk in the first and, an out later, scored on Soler's RBI double. After Benintendi walked, Dozier's triple made it 3-0.
In the third, Perez led off with a double. An out later, Benintendi and Dozier walked to load the bases. That chased Keller, and reliever Sean Poppen walked in a run to make it 4-0.
Against Poppen in the fourth, Whit Merrifield singled with one out and went to third on Santana's base hit. Perez drove in one with a single for a 5-0 lead, and Soler followed with an RBI single to make it 6-0.
Pittsburgh cut the deficit in half in the bottom of the fourth. Frazier walked ahead of Gonzalez's second homer, an estimated 453-foot bomb to left that made it 6-2. Stallings followed with a solo homer, his first, to left-center.
Frazier's two-run double in the fifth, his first hit of the year and first with Pittsburgh, cut Kansas City's lead to 6-5.
Against Chris Stratton in the sixth, Soler's RBI double and Benintendi's two-run double boosted it to 9-5.
Evans' RBI single in the eighth closed it to 9-6.
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| Kansas City |
|
Pittsburgh |
|
Mike Minor
|
Player |
Mitch Keller
|
|
No Decision |
W/L |
Loss |
|
4.1 |
IP |
2.1 |
|
6 |
Strikeouts |
2 |
|
6 |
Hits |
3 |
|
8.31 |
ERA |
15.43 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Kansas City
|
12 |
0 |
18 |
.316 |
20 |
10 |
9 |
7 |
0 |
1 |
| Pittsburgh
|
8 |
2 |
16 |
.229 |
16 |
9 |
6 |
7 |
0 |
1 |
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