Kansas City Royals vs San Diego Padres Match Player Stats On Jun 11, 2017

The Sports Xchange
Jun 11, 2017

SAN DIEGO -- Mike Moustakas drove in four runs with a pair of homers to lead a four-homer assault and Kansas City Royals starter Jake Junis held the San Diego Padres to three runs over seven-plus innings Sunday as the Royals defeated the Padres 8-3 in the rubber match of a three-game series at Petco Park.

Kansas City hit 10 homers in the three-game series.

The Padres hit three homers Sunday. The difference was that the Padres' three homers were all solo shots while the Royals' four accounted for seven of their eight runs scored against Padres starter Dinelson Lamet (2-2) and reliever Jose Torres.

Kansas City's 10 home runs, including five Saturday afternoon, accounted for 18 of the Royals' 23 runs in the three games.

Eric Hosmer's second homer in as many days accounted for two runs Sunday. Alex Gordon added a solo shot off Lamet, who gave up seven runs on six hits and a walk with six strikeouts in five innings.

Moustakas hit his second homer of the game -- and 17th of the season -- off Torres in the ninth. It was the third baseman's fifth multi-homer game of his career and first of the season.

Cory Spangenberg homered twice for the Padres off Junis (2-0) and Jose Pirela's drive into the left field seats leading off the eighth ended the third major league start for Junis, who allowed three runs on six hits and a walk with six strikeouts.

The Royals' homer barrage resumed in the first inning Sunday when Moustakas connected on a three-run blast that capped a four-run burst, which accentuated another recent Padres' problem.

Padres starter Lamet retired the first two hitters he faced, then found himself down 4-0 before he got out of the first. It marked the fifth time in five games that a Padres pitcher had retired the first two hitters in an inning before multiple runs were scored ahead of the final out.

Lorenzo Cain drew a two-out walk in the first, then advanced to third on two wild pitches before scoring on a Hosmer single. Salvador Perez followed with a single ahead of Moustakas' 405-foot drive into the right field seats.

Gordon upped the lead to 4-0 in the fourth with a solo homer, a 373-foot drive to right.

Spangenberg got the Padres on the board in the bottom of the fourth with the first of his two homers in the game off Junis, a 419-foot drive to center.

But Hosmer countered in the top of the fifth with his second homer in as many games, a two-run shot off Lamet that carried 411 feet into the right field stands. Spangenberg's second homer in the bottom of the seventh made it 7-2.

NOTES: The Padres promoted RHP Phil Maton from Triple-A El Paso Sunday and debuted with a 1-2-3 inning. Maton had a 2.84 ERA with the Chihuahuas and was tied for the Pacific Coast League lead in saves with 13 . . . The Padres optioned RHP Kevin Quackenbush to El Paso to make room on the 25-man roster and designated RHP Jake Esch for assignment to open a spot on the 40-man roster . . . Royals C Salvador Perez departed the game in the fifth inning with tightness on the left side of his rib cage. It is not considered a serious injury.