Kansas City Royals at Milwaukee Brewers

· Major League Baseball

Kansas City Royals

2-3, 1-1 Away

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Milwaukee Brewers

1-4, 1-1 Home

Eric Haase, Christian Yelich homer to back Chad Patrick as Brewers blank Royals 5-0 for 1st win

Christian Yelich homers to extend Brewers' lead

Patrick gave the Brewers something they hadn't had thus far — three scoreless innings to begin the game. Milwaukee surrendered 24 runs in the first three innings of its first four games.

Haase homered from the ninth spot in the order to put the Brewers up 1-0 in the third. Brice Turang and Jackson Chourio followed with singles and Turang scored on a force-out at second on Yelich's grounder to make it 2-0.

Patrick fell an out short of qualifying for the win in his first career start, giving up three hits and three walks with five strikeouts in 4 2/3 innings.

Rhys Hoskins had an RBI single in a two-run sixth to up the lead to 4-0, and Yelich hit his first home run to cap the scoring in the eighth.

Jared Koenig pitched an inning, Abner Uribe (1-0) got four outs to get the win, Joel Payamps pitched the eighth and Trevor Megill got the last three outs.

Michael Lorenzen (0-1) allowed four runs — three earned — in 5 1/3 innings. He struck out seven.

Key moment Koenig entered with two outs and two on in the top of the fifth inning. He retired Michael Massey on a grounder to first to preserve a 2-0 lead.

Key stat The Brewers began the day with an ERA of 12.27 through four games and that includes two scoreless innings from first baseman Jake Bauers. The staff tied the record set by the 1954 Cardinals for the most runs allowed through four games with 47.

Up next Cole Ragans (0-0) makes his second start for Kansas City in Wednesday's series finale. Freddy Peralta (0—1) starts for the second time for Milwaukee.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Isbel struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Garcia grounded out to shortstop.
	9th Inning	Melendez struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Megill relieved Payamps
	8th Inning	Hoskins flied out to right.
	8th Inning	Frelick grounded out to pitcher.

Statistics

KC		MIL
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
1	Hit By Pitch	0
0	Ground Balls	0
9	Strikeouts	8
0	Runs Batted In	5
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
4	Hits	7
0	Stolen Bases	1
4	Walks	3
0	Catcher Interference	0
0	Runs	5
0	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
31	At Bats	30
0	Home Runs	2
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
10	Runners Left On Base	11
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	0
1	Intentional Walks	0
3	Doubles	0
0	Fly Balls	0
0	Caught Stealing	0
147	Pitches	130
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
7	Total Bases	13
36	Plate Appearances	33
0.0	Projected Home Runs	324.0
3	Extra Base Hits	2
1.8	Runs Created	3.9
.129	Batting Average	.233
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.226	Slugging Percentage	.433
.226	Secondary Average	.333
.250	On Base Percentage	.303
.476	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.736
0.0	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.0
1.8	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	4.4
10.0	Batter Rating	34.0
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	15.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
4.08	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.94
.097	Isolated Power	.200
0.44	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.38
.111	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.091
.097	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.100
0.0	Runs Produced	10.0
0.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.3	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.3
62.3	MLB Rating	82.3
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0