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In eight starts since being traded from the
Texas Rangers, Ragans is 4-1 with a 1.51 ERA and 63 strikeouts
in 47 2/3 innings.
The Royals (43-96) posted single tallies in each of the first
three innings. Olivares clubbed his first home run with one out
in the first, Drew Waters added a two-out RBI single in the
second and Salvador Perez's sacrifice fly made it 3-0 in the
third.
Nelson Velazquez's two-run homer gave Kansas City a 5-0 lead in
the fourth. The 419-foot blast to left was his 10th home run of
the year and seventh in 21 games with Kansas City.
The Royals put the game out of reach with a seven-run fifth
inning, capped by Olivares' second home run, a two-run shot that
went 428 feet to center for a 12-0 lead. It was Olivares' eighth
home run of the season, marking his second career multi-homer
game.
Olivares and Maikel Garcia each collected three hits.
Jesse Scholtens (1-7) allowed five runs on nine hits in 3 2/3
innings. Scholtens is winless with four losses in seven starts
since joining the White Sox rotation on Aug. 1.
In the eighth, Lenyn Sosa doubled and scored from second on
Trayce Thompson's two-out infield single and first baseman Matt
Beaty's throwing error for Chicago's lone run.
The White Sox (53-85) have lost four straight games, including
the last three while playing without All-Star outfielder Luis
Robert Jr., who is sidelined with right quad cramping. Chicago
has scored a total of three runs in those three losses and has
dropped 16 of its last 22 games, falling to a season-worst 32
games below .500.
--Field Level Media
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