By MATT PIKE
St. Joseph Post
The Kansas City Royals seemingly used up their offense on Monday, and were held off the board in the middle game of the three game series with the Milwaukee Brewers, getting shut out 5-0 on Tuesday afternoon.
Brewers catcher Eric Haase hit his first home run of the season in the third inning for the first run. Later in the inning, Christian Yelich grounded into a force out scoring Brice Turang. Milwaukee added two more runs in the sixth inning, a single from Rhys Hoskins scoring Yelich, and a ground out by Vinny Capra driving in William Contreras. The Brewers final run of the game in the eighth came on a solo home run from Yelich to right center field.
The Royals managed just four hits in the loss, with one hit each coming from Jonathan India, Bobby Witt Jr, Mark Canha, and Maikel Garcia. Starting pitcher Michael Lorenzen, who took the loss, pitched 5.1 innings, giving up five hits and four runs, three earned, while striking out seven and walking three.
The Royals and Brewers will wrap up their series tomorrow. Cole Ragans makes his first start since Opening Day for Kansas City as does Freddy Peralta for Milwaukee. KFEQ (680 AM/95.3 FM) will join first pitch at 12:10pm.
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