Royals pounce on Brewers bullpen in 6-4 win for 2-game sweep

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jorge Soler hit a slump-busting homer to tie the game, Nicky Lopez bunted home the go-ahead run, and the Kansas City Royals used a late rally against the Milwaukee bullpen to squeak past the Brewers 6-4 on Wednesday night.

Scott Barlow (2-1) got the final two outs of the seventh inning, Greg Holland worked the eighth and Josh Staumont coughed up a run in the ninth before striking out Omar Narvaez looking with two runners aboard for his fifth save.

The two-game sweep gave Kansas City its first series win over the Brewers since June 2015.

The Royals had managed just two hits off Corbin Burnes when the Brewers ace left leading 3-2 after six innings. Soler was the first batter of the seventh and promptly hammered J.P. Feyereisen's second pitch to end his 0-for-12 skid.

Feyereisen (0-2) then gave up Kelvin Gutierrez's single and walked Michael Taylor. A sacrifice bunt advanced both runners, and Lopez turned an attempted squeeze play into a bunt single that allowed pinch runner Jarrod Dyson to score easily.

The Royals added two more runs off Brad Boxberger in the eighth before their own bullpen finished things off.

Taylor hit a two-run homer in the second and robbed Jackie Bradley Jr. of a home run with a spectacular leaping catch in the sixth. The Brewers still scored on the sacrifice fly, but Taylor's catch saved a run and kept Kansas City within 3-2.

Bradley homered off Brad Keller earlier in the game to end his own 0-for-22 slump.

Steady drizzle predicted all afternoon began in the third, then the rain picked up in the top of the fourth, and for a while it looked as if it would be a race to play enough innings to call the game official.

The showers briefly subsided, though, and Burnes and Keller kept dueling. Burnes baffled the Royals with his...

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