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Lopez (1-2), who entered the game with a 12.15
ERA, permitted five hits and a run in his 104-pitch stint. He
issued two walks and struck out five. Four relievers obtained
the final nine outs as Chicago won for the fourth time in five
games and clinched a victory in the three-game series that
concludes Wednesday.
Jorge Lopez (0-2) fanned 10 and walked two over six innings for
Kansas City, but he couldn't keep the ball in the yard, allowing
three homers among his eight hits. Lopez was touched for four
runs.
The Royals initiated the scoring in the second when Lucas Duda
launched his second homer of the year to right field. That lead
lasted until the third, when Moncada cracked his first long ball
of the night, taking an outside fastball the other way to
left-center.
Leury Garcia snapped a 1-1 tie in the fifth when Jorge Lopez
made a mistake with an 0-2 changeup, leaving it over the middle
above the knees. Garcia drilled his first homer of the year with
Yolmer Sanchez aboard, and Moncada followed it by jacking a
hanging curve over the wall in right for his fifth homer of the
year.
Yonder Alonso capped the scoring in the eighth when he clubbed
his third homer of the year to right off reliever Jake Newberry.
The blast polished off a 4-for-4 performance for Alonso, upping
his batting average to .220.
Kansas City missed on a golden chance to break a tie in the
fourth when Jorge Soler and Duda singled with one out. Reynaldo
Lopez induced a 5-4-3 double play ball from Chris Owings to
quash the threat.
The Royals, who fell to 5-12, were held hitless over the last
four innings. Duda (2-for-4) was the only Kansas City player
with multiple hits.
--Field Level Media
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