Baltimore Orioles vs Kansas City Royals Match Player Stats On May 13, 2017

The Sports Xchange
May 13, 2017

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Brandon Moss hit the go-ahead home run in the sixth inning and Nathan Karns struck out a career-high 12 in a no-decision as the Kansas City Royals held on to beat the Baltimore Orioles 4-3 on Saturday night.

Royals relievers Mike Minor and Kelvin Herrera retired the final nine Orioles.

The Royals scored two runs in the bottom of the fifth to grab a 3-2 lead. Alcides Escobar and Mike Moustakas led off the inning with singles and each moved up 90 feet on a Chris Tillman wild pitch.

Lorenzo Cain's sacrifice fly scored Escobar. Tillman walked Eric Hosmer and was replaced by Alec Asher, who hit Salvador Perez with a pitch to load the bases. Jorge Bonifacio's flyout to left fielder Trey Mancini got Moustakas home.

Royals manager Ned Yost elected to pull Karns after 91 pitches and five innings. Yost brought in Seth Maness, who had not pitched in the majors since Aug. 13 and had elbow surgery.

It took Maness three pitches to blow the lead. Chris Davis hit a 2-1 pitch out to left, just clearing the fence into the Royals' bullpen.

The Royals regained the lead in the bottom of the inning on Moss' leadoff home run to right.

Karns struck out five in a row during one stretch but was not fooling Orioles No. 9 hitter Francisco Pena.

Pena, a former Royal and the son of former Kansas City manager Tony Pena, homered twice off Karns in the first five innings to give the Orioles a 2-1 advantage.

Pena smashed a 2-2 Karns offering with one out in the third. Pena's shot landed at the back of the Kansas City bullpen.

With two outs in the fifth, Pena turned on the first pitch and belted it out to left. It was Pena's first career multi-homer game.

The Royals scored first. Eric Hosmer led off the second with an opposite-field double and came home on Perez's single.

Jorge Soler's one-out single, only his second hit in 22 at-bats since coming off the disabled list, advanced Perez to second, but Tillman retired Brandon Moss on a ground ball and Whit Merrifield on a foul pop to prevent further damage.

Cain doubled to the left-center gap with two out in the third and Hosmer walked, but Perez lined out to shortstop J.J. Hardy to end the inning.

NOTES: Royals LF Alex Gordon was held out of the lineup with a strained right groin, which caused him to exit in the seventh inning Friday. It is not considered serious. ... Orioles 1B Chris Davis returned to the lineup after being given Friday off. ... Orioles 2B Jonathan Schoop went 0-for-4, ending his consecutive streak of reaching base safely at a career-high 26. ... Orioles RHP Kevin Gausman and Royals RHP Chris Young are the Sunday probables for the series finale.