The Kansas City Royals had a blast in St. Louis today, scoring 14 runs to take down their cross-state rivals in both games of a doubleheader.
After a grounderfest of a first inning in game one, St. Louis drew first blood in the second frame when Alec Marsh hung a two-strike curveball to Nolan Arenado, who yanked it out to the sparsely populated stands in center field for a homer. In the third, Marsh started the inning by walking Pedro Pagés, a rookie catcher who entered the game with a 66 wRC+, on five pitches. After retiring Masyn Winn, Marsh was again stung on a two-strike breaking ball — he tried to back foot it, but it stayed up enough for Alec Burleson to golf it out to the right field bullpen and give St.