Chicago Cubs at Kansas City Royals

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Chicago Cubs

69-50, 34-26 Away

Final
10 - 2

Kansas City Royals

49-70, 29-30 Home

Happ and Amaya homer to help Boyd improve to 8-1 as the Cubs beat the Royals 10-2

Cubs cruise 10-2 as they take the series

Alex Bregman delivered a pair of RBI singles to help the Cubs win two of three games in the series. Bregman, Happ and Michael Busch each had three of Chicago's 18 hits.

Matthew Boyd (8-1) allowed two runs and five hits in seven effective innings.

Happ made it 7-2 in the sixth with his 20th home run. Amaya connected in the seventh, also off reliever Easton McGee.

Chicago got on the board in the first with a sacrifice fly by Michael Conforto that scored Busch. Conforto knocked in Busch again in the third on an RBI single.

That was followed by an RBI single from Nico Hoerner that scored Happ, extending the lead to 3-0.

In the fourth, Bregman added to the lead with an RBI single that scored Pete Crow-Armstrong and gave the Cubs a 4-0 advantage.

Starling Marte hit his second home run of the season for the Royals in the bottom of the fourth, scoring Salvador Perez and cutting the deficit to 4-2.

Bregman had another RBI single in the sixth and scored on Happ's homer.

Kansas City starter Randy Dobnak (2-1) went five innings. He gave up four runs and 10 hits with one walk and four strikeouts.

Up next Cubs LHP Shota Imanaga (8-9, 3.60 ERA) pitches Tuesday at Washington.

Royals LHP Noah Cameron (6-8, 4.37 ERA) starts on the road against LHP Tarik Skubal (7-6, 2.81) and the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Tolbert flied out to right.
	9th Inning	Massey flied out to left.
	9th Inning	Marte grounded out to second.
	9th Inning	Assad relieved Zeferjahn
	9th Inning	Ramirez at first base.
	9th Inning	Triantos at second base.

Statistics

CHC		KC
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
17	Ground Balls	10
9	Strikeouts	5
10	Runs Batted In	2
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
18	Hits	6
1	Stolen Bases	0
3	Walks	3
0	Catcher Interference	0
10	Runs	2
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
1	Sacrifice Flies	0
44	At Bats	31
2	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
20	Runners Left On Base	9
0	Triples	1
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
3	Doubles	0
19	Fly Balls	16
0	Caught Stealing	1
165	Pitches	127
0	Games Started	0
2	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	1
27	Total Bases	11
48	Plate Appearances	34
324.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
5	Extra Base Hits	2
11.2	Runs Created	2.7
.409	Batting Average	.194
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.614	Slugging Percentage	.355
.295	Secondary Average	.226
.438	On Base Percentage	.265
1.051	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.620
0.9	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.6
11.2	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	2.8
71.0	Batter Rating	19.5
22.0	At Bats Per Home Run	31.0
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.44	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.74
.205	Isolated Power	.161
0.33	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.60
.063	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.088
-.114	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.032
20.0	Runs Produced	4.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.6	Patience Ratio	0.4
0.5	Balls In Play Average	0.2
116.5	MLB Rating	73.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0