Grant Taylor<\/a>, Jordan Leasure and Seranthony Dom\u00ednguez held the Royals to five hits as the Sox recorded their second shutout of the season.<\/p>\n![\"White](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CTC-Z-SOX-KCR.jpg\")
White Sox first baseman Munetaka Murakami slides home safely to score past Royals catcher Salvador Perez on a Colson Montgomery double during the fourth inning Thursday, April 9, 2026, in Kansas City, Mo. (Charlie Riedel\/AP)<\/p>\n
Kay received run support in the fourth. Munetaka Murakami led off the inning with a walk. Colson Montgomery then hit a liner that skipped past right fielder Lane Thomas. Murakami scored from first on the double, giving the Sox a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wants to run, he wants to steal some bases and he\u2019s confident in his ability to run, so it was great to see and obviously a huge play,\u201d Venable said of Murakami.<\/p>\n
Defensive support came in the fifth when Miguel Vargas fielded a hard-hit grounder by Bobby Witt Jr. and threw him out at first to end the inning.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt gives you more confidence to be aggressive in the zone,\u201d Kay said of the defense. \u201cIf they hit it, you know your guys are going to go out and make the plays. It leads to more confidence in the zone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kay retired the first two batters in the sixth but then surrendered a single and hit Jac Caglianone, which led to some staring by both parties along the walk to first.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose guys like to chirp a little bit, it seems like,\u201d Kay said. \u201cI don\u2019t think we are going to take that anymore. We are going to go right at them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Taylor entered and got Jonathan India to fly out to left field.<\/p>\n
The Sox added a run in the seventh without the benefit of a hit. Andrew Benintendi and Dustin Harris walked against Royals starter Seth Lugo. The Royals made a pitching change, and reliever John Schreiber got Edgar Quero to hit a grounder to first. Vinnie Pasquantino\u2019s throw to second was off the mark, and everyone was safe.<\/p>\n
Luisangel Acu\u00f1a followed with a sacrifice fly to right field, extending the lead to 2-0.<\/p>\n
\u201cWas a really nice job,\u201d Venable said of Acu\u00f1a\u2019s at-bat.<\/p>\n
As for the offense as a whole, Venable said: \u201cJust enough today, another good day from the offense.\u201d<\/p>\n
Taylor got out of a two-out jam in the seventh, as Chase Meidroth made a nice diving stop at second on a hard-hit grounder by Pasquantino and threw him out at first, stranding two runners.<\/p>\n
The Royals threatened again in the ninth, but Dom\u00ednguez worked around a leadoff walk \u2014 striking out Maikel Garcia and Witt to wrap up the win.<\/p>\n
\u201cRight after that (walk), I talked to myself and said, \u2018Throw strikes, do your thing,’\u201d Dom\u00ednguez said. \u201cGot a fly ball, got a couple punchies.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Sox (5-8) snapped a three-game losing streak. And a much longer skid in Kansas City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 Anthony Kay\u2019s last major-league victory came in 2021. The left-hander, who spent 2024 and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":717375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[197082,960,1274,29987,16076,5386,1818,77516,1284,27038,150026,237747,13250],"class_list":["post-717374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-anthony-kay","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-colson-montgomery","tag-grant-taylor","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-jordan-leasure","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-miguel-vargas","tag-munetaka-murakami","tag-seranthony-dominguez","tag-will-venable"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}