Bobby Witt Jr., Nelson Velazquez and Michael Massey homered, Angel Zerpa gave up one run over four innings and the Kansas City Royals beat the Houston Astros 4-2 on Friday night.
Salvador Perez gave Kansas City a 1-0 lead with a sacrifice fly in the third inning. Velazquez homered to center in the fourth to make it 2-0.
The Astros got one back after a single by Jeremy Pena and a double by Yordan Alvarez made it 3-1 in the sixth. Zack Greinke opened the game and went two innings for Kansas City, allowing three hits, walking one and fanning one. He threw almost 50 pitches in those two frames. Christian Javier allowed two earned runs over five innings while allowing a walk and striking out six.
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