By MATT PIKE
St. Joseph Post
Royals starting pitcher Kris Bubic continued putting together a strong 2025 season, leaving the Bronx with a 1.88 ERA on the season, but the Royals fell to the New York Yankees, and were swept in the series, losing 4-3 on Wednesday night.
For a second game in a row, Kansas City did take the lead first in the game, this time in the first inning. Bobby Witt Jr singled after Jonathan India flew out to open the game, and after Vinnie Pasquantino walked advancing Witt Jr to second base, the star shortstop scored on a single into left field by Salvador Perez.
Bubic, who struck out six batters in the game, recorded three of those through the first two innings, and struck out Cody Bellinger in the third inning before the Yankees took the lead back with two outs. Aaron Judge doubled followed by a walk to Jazz Chisolm Jr, before Anthony Volpe drove in both runners with an RBI double into left field. New York added another run in the fourth inning, an RBI double by Bellinger driving in Oswald Peraza.
The Royals did save Bubic from suffering a loss though, scoring two runs to tie the game up in the fifth inning. Drew Waters opened the inning with a single, but Tyler Tolbert followed that with a lineout to center field, despite that Waters still scored on the next batter as Kyle Isbel hit his first triple of the season, then scored himself on the next batter as India grounded out to Volpe bringing Isbel home to knot the game up at three.
John Schreiber replaced Bubic in the sixth inning after the starter recorded one out, and then came back out to pitch in the seventh, immediately giving the lead back to New York surrendering a solo home run to Judge into center field, which ended up being all the Yankees needed for the win.
Bubic pitched 5.1 innings striking out six and giving up three runs on seven hits, walking four batters in the no decision. Schreiber took the loss going 0.2 innings, only giving up one hit, the home run to Judge. Five different Royals recorded one hit each.
Kansas City now heads to Detroit on a three game losing streak to take on the Tigers in a four game series. Michael Lorenzen starts for the Royals to open the series against Reese Olson for Detroit. First pitch is at 5:40pm, pregame coverage begins at 5 on KFEQ (680AM/95.3FM).
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