the Kansas City Royals defeated the Minnesota Twins 5 to0 on Friday night taking over second place in the AL Central and securing the second wild card spot by half a game Michael Massie led the Royals with three hits including a home run starting pitcher Cole Reagan 11 and N delivered a strong performance allowing just four hits in six scoreless Innings this Victory marked his first win since August 14th when the Royals won 4 to1 in Minneapolis their only victory in Minnesota this season zebie Matthews took the loss for the twins giving up four runs on nine hits over five innings Reagan achieved his 200th strikeout of the season in the third inning becoming the fifth pitcher in Royals history to reach this Milestone and the first since Zach grank in 2009 the Royals opened the scoring in the third inning when isolt drew a one- out walk and scored from first on a double to the left field corner by Tommy fam the twins nearly answered in the fourth with an Austin Martin double but fams relay to Bobby wit Jr who threw to Salvador Perez resulted in an out at-home plate Massie extended the Royals lead in the fourth inning with a 48t solo home run into the bullpen in right field Kansas City added more runs in the the fifth inning using their speed Bobby wit Jr avoided a double play and advanced to Third on a single by MJ Melendez Melendez then stole second and both Runners scored on a single by Hunter Renfro the Royals scored their final run in the eighth inning when juli guriel hit a sacrifice fly