By MATT PIKE
St. Joseph Post
The Kansas City Royals took another early lead and earned their second straight win to start the second half of the MLB season, defeating the Chicago White Sox 6-1 on Saturday at Kauffman Stadium.
With two outs in the first inning to start the game, the Royals scored three runs with RBIs from Salvador Perez, Michael Massey, and Hunter Renfroe. Kansas City would add one more in the second inning on a Bobby Witt Jr double, holding a 4-0 lead after the first two innings.
Royals starting pitcher Brady Singer continued his stellar season, shutting down the White Sox over seven innings and giving up just five hits, striking out seven and walking two in the game. It was Singer's eight quality start of the season.
New Royals reliever Hunter Harvey made his first appearance in Kansas City since being traded by the Washington Nationals last week. Harvey surrendered one run in the eighth, but the Royals would answer with two more runs in the bottom half of the inning.
The win pushed the Royals to a 54-45 record and to six games back of the Cleveland Guardians, after the Guardians lost 7-0 to the San Diego Padres.
Kansas City will wrap up the series with the White Sox on Sunday with pregame at 12:30pm and first pitch at 1:10 on KFEQ. Seth Lugo is slated to start the finale for the Royals against Drew Thorpe for Chicago