Bobby Witt Jr. and Drew Waters both homered and tripled to power the host Kansas City Royals to an 8-4 victory that avoided a series sweep by the American League-best Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday.
The Rays entered the game averaging 5.4 runs per game, but they were shut down early by Royals righty Brady Singer, while Kansas City jumped on Tampa Bay ace right-hander Zach Eflin, who hadn't allowed more than four runs in any of his 17 previous starts this season.
Eflin was chased from the game after throwing a season-low three innings, allowing five earned runs on seven hits.Kansas City stretched its lead to 5-0 in the second, when Waters and Witt sandwiched RBI triples around a run-scoring single by Nick Pratto.
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