In a four-game series in which the Rangers kept challenging him, the red-hot Royals first baseman was set on meeting the challenge. Pasquantino did it again on Thursday afternoon, snapping a fifth-inning tie with a laser-beam homer to right-center that served as the springboard for Kansas City’s 6-4 victory at Kauffman Stadium.
For Pasquantino, it was the fourth consecutive day in which he homered off Texas pitching. He is now one shy of tying the club record of five consecutive games with a homer, which was accomplished by Salvador Perez from Aug. 25-29, 2021, and Mike Sweeney from June 25-29, 2002.
The series finale homer for Pasquantino was especially timely. Texas had scored three in the top of the fifth to tie the game, 4-4, capitalizing on a Bobby Witt Jr. error that came on a tailor-made double-play ball hit by Rowdy Tellez that would have gotten Kansas City out of the inning unscathed.
But Pasquantino wouldn’t allow the Royals to stay in the doldrums for long. On Kansas City’s 8-2 homestand, Pasquantino had six of the club’s 19 homers. He now has 26 homers this season, and 15 of those have given the Royals a lead.
After Pasquantino put the Royals up 5-4, a bases-loaded walk to Luke Maile provided an insurance run in the seventh.
