M’s Can’t Complete Comeback in Series Opening Loss to Royals

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Salvador Perez and Bobby Witt Jr both homered and Dairon Blanco delivered a walk-off sacrifice fly as the Kansas City Royals beat the Seattle Mariners 7-6 last (Mon) night at Kauffman Stadium.

Julio Rodriguez had two hits, including a double and drove in four runs in the loss for the M’s who took a brief one run lead in the top of the 9th.

Seattle’s Matt Brash fell to 8-4 – allowing 2 runs in a third of an inning of relief.

Game two of the four-game series gets underway at 5:10 tonight (Tue) with live coverage in the LC Valley on 93.1 FM and 1350 AM KRLC and in the upper Clearwater Valley on AM 1300 KLER.