The Royals scored 4 runs within the backside of the ninth to defeat the Padres 6-5 within the rain on Thursday afternoon.
Daniel Lynch IV is engaged in a contest for a beginning position this spring and has impressed in his outings to date. He had a fast 1-2-3 first inning, however rain into bother within the second, giving up three hits, together with a two-run triple to Luis Arraez. The Padres put up three runs general to take a 3-0 lead.
Michael Massey continued his sizzling hitting with a leadoff triple within the second off Yu Darvish, later scoring on an RBI groundout by Kyle Isbel. The Royals went quietly till the sixth after they confronted reliever Stephen Kolek. Jonathan India led off with a double and got here residence on an RBI single by MJ Melendez to make it 3-2 Padres.
Lynch would exit after 4 innings having given up the three runs, however he had no walks and two strikeouts. Hunter Harvey and Lucas Erceg every pitched scoreless frames and John Schrieber labored round two hits to maintain the Padres off the board.
Carlos Hernández didn’t assist his bid to make the workforce, giving up a house run to Mason McCoy.
He additionally walked two hitters, one in all them finally coming round to attain on an RBI single by Trenton Brooks to make it 5-2 Padres.
That arrange a dramatic ninth for the Royals. Former Royals pitcher Jason Adam gave up a leadoff double to Luke Maile, then hit Dustin Dickerson with a pitch. Joey Wiemer launched a three-run residence run to tie issues up, his second residence run of the spring. Jack Pineda adopted that up with a double. Nik Goodrum would commit an error on a ball hit by Austin Charles to permit Pineda to attain for a walk-off Royals win.
The Royals will tackle the Angels tomorrow afternoon with prospects taking over the Diamondbacks that night time within the Spring Breakout Recreation.
