By MATT PIKE
St. Joseph Post
The Kansas City Royals struggled to produce offense and gave up 10 unanswered runs to the New York Yankees before scoring, on way to a 10-1 blowout loss at Kauffman Stadium.
The Yankees scored two runs in the first inning before adding four more in the fourth. After a scoreless fifth inning, New York would score one in the sixth, and have another big inning in the seventh, pushing across three runs.
The Royals lone run came in the eighth inning as manager Matt Quatraro would pinch hit catcher Freddy Fermin for Salvador Perez. Fermin in his lone at bat would hit a 370 ft home run to left field.
Royals starter Brady Singer gave up seven runs, just six earned, through 5.2 innings. Reliever Nick Anderson gave up the final three runs of the game. Infielder Nick Pratto, who was called up on Tuesday, made his season debut on the mound in the ninth, giving up one hit and also striking out one in a scoreless appearance.
The Royals will look to snap a three game losing streak on Wednesday, hoping to salvage a series split in the four game series. The Royals starter has not been announced yet while the Yankees will send Cody Poteet to the mound.
First pitch on Wednesday is at 7:10pm with pregame set for 6:30 on KFEQ (680AM/95.3FM).
ROSTER MOVES
The Royals called up outfielder Drew Waters and infielder Nick Pratto from Omaha. In corresponding moves infielder Adam Frazier was placed on the bereavement list while outfielder Hunter Renfroe went to the 10 day IL with a fractured toe suffered in Monday's loss.
Waters, who made his season debut in right field Tuesday, was batting .277 with seven home runs and 33 RBIs for the Stormchasers this season. Pratto was batting .234 with seven home runs, 30 RBIs, and nine stolen bases.