Luke Maile, Salvador Perez, Lane Thomas and Tyler Tolbert homered to lead the host Kansas City Royals to a 15-1 rout of the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday.
Tolbert was 5-for-5 with three runs scored and two RBIs after going 2-for-2 in his last game on Saturday for the Royals, who scored in all eight of the innings they batted on Monday in taking two of three in the series.
Kansas City had a season-high 22 hits.
Trea Turner was 3-for-4 for the Phillies, who have lost three of their last four.
Royals starter Noah Cameron (5-6) allowed a run and six hits in five innings with five walks and seven strikeouts.
All-Star left-hander Cristopher Sanchez (10-4) started for Philadelphia and surrendered a career-high nine runs on 12 hits in 3 1/3 innings with a walk and a strikeout.
Kansas City scored six runs in the first, highlighted by Maile’s two-out, three-run homer that made it 6-1. It came in his first career at-bat for the Royals after being recalled from Triple-A Omaha. His drive to the opposite field bounced off the top of the fence in right-center and over for Maile’s first home run of the season and 23rd of the 11-year major league career.
The Royals’ first three runs came on shortstop Turner’s throwing error and RBI singles by Nick Loftin and Starling Marte.
Perez’s solo homer in the second made it 7-1. It was his 11th of the season and 314th of his career, three short of George Brett’s team record.
Tolbert’s run-scoring double in the third increased the lead to 8-1 and Thomas’ home run in the fourth, his sixth, made it 9-1.
Tolbert’s solo shot in the fifth, his first homer, ran it to 10-1, and Marte’s RBI single in the sixth raised it to 11-1.
Jac Caglianone’s run-scoring single and Loftin’s bases-loaded groundout in the seventh added two for a 13-1 count.
Michael Massey and Caglianone hit run-scoring singles in the eighth for the final margin.
Alec Bohm’s RBI double gave Philadelphia the lead in the first.
Philadelphia’s Kyle Schwarber was ejected by home plate umpire Alan Porter after Schwarber’s third strikeout of the game in the sixth.
