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Lowe, Meadows HRs highlight Rays' 14-7 rout of Royals

April 21, 2021 by Houston Chronicle Leave a Comment

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Brandon Lowe, Austin Meadows and Mike Zunino homered and the Tampa Bay Rays pounded out 17 hits in a 14-7 rout of the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday night.

Meadows, Randy Arozarena and Joey Wendle had three hits each, and Manual Margot and Yoshi Tsutsugo had three RBIs apiece as the Rays won their fifth straight. Tampa Bay entered the game hitting .220 as a team, just 23rd in the majors.

“We needed it,” Rays manager Kevin Cash said.

The Rays roughed up starter Brad Keller (1-2) for five runs in 1 2/3 innings. Keller allowed three hits and walked three, including Lowe to load the bases on his final pitch.

“Tough, I can’t pick up my defense when I walk three guys in an inning,” Keller said. “I was trying to do too much.”

Jake Newberry relieved and walked the next two batters to give Tampa Bay a 5-0 advantage.

“We came out and set the tone early on and got to Keller quickly,” Cash said. “We got some early runs with some good at-bats, not a lot of damage, but a lot of walks, taking advantage of count control.”

Carlos Santana homered and had two hits and three RBIs for the Royals.

“We’ve got a number of guys that are putting together good at-bats, but (Santana) is at the top,” Royals manager Mike Matheny said. “It’d be nice to get all the bats going at the same time.”

Tampa Bay rattled off another four-run inning in the sixth sparked by five straight hits from the heart of the batting order.

“As much a people want to talk about our pitching, but our hitting is pretty good, too,” Lowe said.

Rich Hill allowed four runs in two innings for Tampa Bay. Andrew Kittredge (3-0) followed with a scoreless inning, and Trevor Richards pitched one-run ball over the last three innings for his first career save.

Zunino and Meadows hit…

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