Friday’s late box

Royals 5, A’s 1

Kansas City AB R H BI BB SO Avg

Merrifield 2b 5 1 3 0 0 1 .232

Benintendi lf 5 0 2 1 0 0 .303

Witt Jr. ss 5 1 1 0 0 3 .245

Perez c 4 2 2 2 1 1 .214

Melendez dh 2 0 0 1 2 1 .244

Dozier 1b 4 0 0 0 1 1 .256

Isbel rf 3 0 0 0 1 0 .235

Taylor cf 4 0 2 1 0 1 .279

Lopez 3b 4 1 1 0 0 0 .215

Totals 36 5 11 5 5 8

A’s AB R H BI BB SO Avg

Pinder lf 4 0 1 0 0 2 .248

d-Vogt ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .161

Laureano rf-cf 3 0 1 0 1 1 .252

Bthncourt dh 3 0 0 0 0 3 .254

c-Lowrie dh 1 0 0 0 0 1 .206

Murphy c 4 0 0 0 0 2 .204

Davidson 3b 2 0 0 0 0 2 .167

a-Kemp 2b 1 0 0 0 1 0 .233

Brown 1b 3 0 0 0 1 2 .202

Andrus ss 4 1 2 0 0 0 .229

Bride 2b-3b 3 0 1 0 1 1 .308

Pache cf 1 0 0 0 1 1 .163

b-Barrera rf 2 0 0 0 0 1 .211

Totals 32 1 5 0 5 16

Kansas City 111 020 000—5 11 0 A’s 010 000 000—1 5 1

a-walked for Davidson in the 6th; b-popped out for Pache in the 7th; c-struck out for Bethancourt in the 8th; d-lined out for Pinder in the 9th.

E: Davidson (2); LOB: Kansas City 10, A’s 9; 2B: Perez (13), Laureano (10); HR: Perez (10), off Montas; RBIs: Perez 2 (32), Benintendi (23), Melendez (17), Taylor (18); SB: Merrifield (8); SF: Melendez; Runners left in scoring position: Kansas City 4 (Lopez, Isbel 2, Melendez), A’s 5 (Vogt, Bride, Laureano 2, Bethancourt); RISP: Kansas City 3 for 10, A’s 1 for 6; GIDP: Lopez, Dozier; DP: A’s 2 (Andrus, Bride, Brown; Andrus, Brown).

Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA

Lynch 5 4 1 1 2 10 99 5.19

Coleman 1 1 0 0 1 2 23 3.42

Clarke 1 2/3 0 0 0 0 3 19 5.06

Speier 2/3 0 0 0 1 0 19 2.41

Staumont 2/3 0 0 0 1 1 9 3.28

A’s IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA

Montas 5 10 5 3 3 4 103 3.53

Pruitt 3 1 0 0 1 2 49 2.45

Trivino 1 0 0 0 1 2 13 8.66

W: Lynch 3-6; L: Montas 3-7.

Inherited runners-scored: Staumont 1-0; WP: Lynch(2), Montas(2); Umpires: Home, Ron Kulpa, First, Charlie Ramos. Second, Chris Conroy. Third, Carlos Torres; T: 3:28; A: 8,772 (46,847).