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Tony Kemp made two doubles and a home run when Oakland Athletics defeated the Royals and won a three-game series 9-7 in Kansas City on Saturday.
Kemp recorded 3 runs and drove 2 to help athletics lose four games in a row.
Zack Jackson (2-2) wins Auckland. Lou Trivino has won his third save.
Neither starter lasted 5 innings. Jared König, who won his first career victory with the Royals last Sunday, was separated by two outs in the fifth inning after allowing three runs with five hits.
Brad Keller (2-9) lost. He allowed 5 runs (4 goals) with 8 hits in 32/3 innings.
After Kemp took the double lead, A scored two runs with two hits in the first inning.
Ramon Laureano hit Bobby Witt Jr. with a slow roller, but Bobby Witt Jr. couldn't keep it clean. Seth Brown scored a single, Kemp to the right, sending Laureano to 3rd. Laureano then scored with Sean Murphy's RBI.
The Royals got on the board with a one-third home run in Wit's season 11 home runs.
A answered with 2 in the 4th place. Elvis Andrus has reached the one-out double lost in the sun by Edward Olivares on the right. He scored with Nick Allen's double and Jona Bride drove Allen with a two-out single.
The 4th Cam Gallagher 2 out, 2 run double attracted the Royals. Gallagher won Michael A. Taylor and came back for the sixth time with an RBI double.
When Brown led in a double and Murphy scored in a single, A insured a little for the seventh time. Kemp then seems to have frozen the game with a two-run home run in the eighth inning.
Taylor hit a 414-foot home run at the bottom of the frame and drew the Royals in one run.
The ninth wild pitch gave Auckland a final run.
– Field-level media
