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Texas Rangers @ Kansas City Royals

2026-06-09 · Night game · Kauffman Stadium · Att: 25075 · 91°F, Partly Cloudy · Wind 9 mph, L To R · 2:35

Kansas City Royals defeated Texas Rangers 5–3. Texas Rangers opened the scoring in the 2nd — Jake Burger singles on a ground ball to left fielder Isaac Collins. Wyatt Langford scores. Ezequiel Duran to 3rd. Kansas City Royals took the lead in the 6th — Vinnie Pasquantino hits a ground-rule double (10) on a fly ball to center field. Maikel Garcia scores. The game's biggest swing came in the 6th: Maikel Garcia triples (2) on a sharp fly ball to right fielder Brandon Nimmo. Carter Jensen scores — worth 17% in win probability.

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Line score

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
TEX	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	3	9
KCA	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	0	0	5	8	2

Texas Rangers — batting

Batter	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO
Joc Pederson DH	5	1	1	0	0	1
Corey Seager SS	4	0	1	1	0	2
Josh Jung 3B	4	0	2	0	0	0
Brandon Nimmo RF	4	0	2	0	0	1
Wyatt Langford LF	3	1	0	0	1	1
Ezequiel Duran 2B	4	0	1	0	0	1
Jake Burger 1B	3	0	1	1	1	0
Evan Carter CF	4	1	1	0	0	0
Kyle Higashioka C	4	0	0	0	0	2

Kansas City Royals — batting

Batter	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO
Carter Jensen C	4	1	1	0	0	1
Bobby Witt SS	3	0	0	0	1	0
Maikel Garcia 3B	4	1	1	1	0	2
Vinnie Pasquantino 1B	4	1	1	1	0	0
Salvador Perez DH	4	0	0	0	0	0
Jac Caglianone RF	3	2	3	3	1	0
Michael Massey 2B	4	0	1	0	0	0
Isaac Collins LF	3	0	0	0	0	0
Tyler Tolbert CF	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kyle Isbel CF	2	0	1	0	1	0