The Kansas City Royals lost both games of a doubleheader with the Tampa Bay Rays, losing 6-1 in the first game and 4-2 in the second game on Saturday, July 15.

Inclement weather postponed Friday’s game to Saturday, where the Royals started the second half of the season against the Rays.

In the first game, both starting pitchers pitched quality starts as the game was close up until the eighth inning. Alec Marsh went six innings, giving up two runs on five hits. Marsh struck out 11. Rays starter Tyler Glasnow went six innings only allowing one run.

The Rays broke it open in the eighth by scoring three runs off of Collin Snider. Tampa Bay added a run in the ninth and finished off a 6-1 victory to take game one. Bobby Witt Jr. did hit his 15th homer of the year, and Salvador Perez had a four hit game.

In game two, the Royals held a 2-1 lead before Tampa Bay scored three unanswered runs to win 4-2.

Cole Ragans five innings of one-run ball for Kansas City. However, the Kansas City bullpen couldn’t close things out as three different relievers allowed three runs over the final three frames. Jonathan Heasley gave up the tying runs in the seventh, Carlos Hernandez gave up the go-ahead run and the eighth, and Dylan Coleman allowed the fourth run in the ninth.

The Royals have fallen to 26-67.

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The Royals will try to avoid the series sweep with an afternoon game on Sunday, July 16. Brady Singer gets the start against Zach Eflin. Pregame is at 12:30 p.m., with first pitch at 1:10 on KMMO AM 1300.