Overview
- Kansas City beat Cleveland 6-2 on Monday night at Kauffman Stadium, giving the Royals four wins in a row and eight in their last 10 games.
- Michael Wacha needed only 79 pitches to work seven innings, giving up four hits and two runs with three strikeouts.
- The Royals flipped a 2-0 deficit in the fourth inning when Bobby Witt Jr. led off with a solo homer, Salvador Perez tied it with an RBI single, and Nick Loftin punched a two-out, two-run single for a 4-2 lead.
- Jac Caglianone added a solo home run in the sixth to build cushion for a bullpen that closed out two clean innings on just 16 total pitches.
- Guardians starter Tanner Bibee allowed four runs over four innings and fell to 0-5, and the series shifts Tuesday to Noah Cameron versus Gavin Williams.