Series-Opening Shutout | Ragans Dominant vs. Twins.

A beautiful September night in Kansas City. We welcome you to Kauffman Stadium. A huge matchup with implications in the chase for the A L central title. The Minnesota twins visit the Kansas City Royals 29th start of the season for Cole Reagans. He is three strikeouts shy of 200 on the year. He's been a terrific story for the Royals and Miranda with a base hit to left a two out single for jose Miranda. What a beautiful stadium. What a perfect night on the ground. A base hit for matt Walner and Miranda charges around second. He'll head to third. Couple of hits for the twins with two outs has 1st and 3rd. Still the twins threatening here and farmer with a fly ball to center sending is Bell back but he has a bead on it in front of the track and the side is retired to reach for the twins. Debbie Matthews the rookie making his fifth major league start less than two months removed from a promotion to triple eight and Pham strikes out quickly, the one to the right has bounced towards third base. Miranda on a big high hop throws to first in time to get the Speedy Bobby Wood Jr two outs. He's chatting high fly ball from Perez center field, austin Mart-n tracks it down. Cole Reagan's only needed 10 pitches in the first inning. Eight of them were strikes. Kansas City has never had a starter lead the league in strikeouts. There's number one tonight for Reagans shooting three Cole top of the zone, outer half back to back, punch outs for Ravens to go one strikeout away from 200 just off the sharply hit ground ball diving stop Santana making the flip in time to Matthews and Carlos Santana flashing that gold glove for the second out brings up Royce Lewis with the bases empty and two gone scoreless game between the Royals and Twins in the top of the third Lewis strikes out and that's number 200 on the season for Cole Reagan's the swing and Miss he was looking for on the changeup. Cole Reagan's reaching the 200 strikeout mark already a franchise record by left handers in the 1st 200 strikeout season by a Royal since Zack Greinke in 2009. Well for, and that's a walk issued by Matthews the first of the night and only the second base runner for Kansas City right now. Tommy Pham might be the spark plug as he puts this one into left and he'll get is Bell being waved around third. Here comes the relay throw. It's not in time and Kansas City has the lead. Tommy Fair knocks him in with a one out double farmer drills one into the gap that's down for a base hit cut off by Isbell. Farmer will have to hold in just a single. So kyle Farmer picks up a base hit. Third knock for the twins, a base runner for austin Mart-n Mart-n to left in the air and that's down for a hit just in front of the wall to bounce all the way to the left field around. Farmer here comes the throw and he's dead to rights. What a to nail farmer at home plate. Still one Royals twins bidding to tie the game the same way the Royals took the lead guys with a , with a double trying to score a runner from first is Bell a little faster than kyle Farmer. Is that guy at shortstop? Pretty good arm as well? Don't mess with Bobby Witt. We welcome you back to Kansas City Brady Singer is joining us wearing a headset, the pitch slider over the low inside corner called strike three. That's a perfect pitch from semi Matthews and Melendez who is down looking for the first out of the inning Royals lead the Twins one nothing. We're in the bottom of the fourth inning bases clear with two outs. Fastball lifted high in the air deep to right field turns around. It's way out of here. The Royals bullpen off the facing of the section of seats behind it and Michael Massey puts one up and out to double the Royals lead guys. I got to give him a high five back, come back and Brady Singer will be part of the receiving line ball kicks and deals and he swings and misses at the change for strikeout. Number four, the call on the night four strikeouts, no walks and most importantly, no runs his payoff pitch to larn strike three called outside corner at 96 from Reagan's his fifth strikeout tonight and he now has 202 on the season which is the most in the American League. Fam Wits and Perez, they're in the bottom of the fifth. The Royals leading 20, 3rd base will reach. Witt will have swing back up the middle to second for one but he beats it out on the return and out wit is aboard with one away MJ is hitting cleanup tonight. Line drive base hit from Melendez. Witt goes first to third and will be stopped there as Melendez has his first hit of the night. We'll see if the Royals can tack on to their lead here. Bobby was at third base as MJ took off. So now a single can double the Royals lead. They are up two nothing and now they have 2nd and 3rd Pope to left down for a base hit. Wid is in to score. Here comes Melendez the throw cup and it's four nothing. Kansas City, the stolen base pays off. It's a two run single for Hunter Renfroe and the Royals double. Their lead is four nothing and that's ball four to Royce Lewis first walk that Cole Reagan's has issued tonight puts a runner on first with one out for right handed hitting jose Miranda, her ball swung on him. Missed strike three beautiful pitch from Cole Reagans. He's got six Ks tonight and there are two outs in the top of the sixth. Lewis gets a head start pitch swung on and missed Walner strikes out seven K's for Reagans tonight. And if that's his last batter, another example of Cole Reagan's brilliance through six scoreless here in KC James macarthur comes out of the pen for Kansas City foul tip into the Mets and Macarthur fans farmer to begin the seventh. It's true. And co slider inside quarter and Vasquez he rung up Melendez drives one deep center Mart-n going back to the track to the, he's got it. Austin Mart-n up against the wall. Robs and J Melendez have an extra base hits Caleb field bar the left. He enters the game for Minnesota trying to keep this a reasonable deficit. Four nothing. The lead for Kansas City here in the bottom of the eighth on the ground right side and through there was a big hole and Hunter Renfroe took advantage of it to lead off the bottom of the eighth. Roseman will pinch hit and he will be a pinch runner as Well, D Blanco ball gets away from Vasquez and Renfro moves up late throws to keep him honest or check out the pinch runner and Blanco moves up hard hit ball right at Miranda and Blanco takes off from second slides off. Third back gets back just in the nick of time. He took off on the throw and gains a big 90 ft correal high fly ball to left Mart-n underneath it and they'll send Blanco, here's the throw home. Not nearly in time. Blanco flying down the line and the Royals extend their lead to five nothing Walner and the twins down to their final strike comments to game is over. The Royals have won back to back and they leapfrog the twins to get back into second place in the division.