San Diego Padres 1 – 6 Kansas City Royals

MLB · July 18, 2026 · Final

🎧 Post-Game Report (audio)

Post-Game Recap

The Kansas City Royals took care of business tonight, rolling past the San Diego Padres by a final of six to one.

Kansas City came out swinging early. Lorenzo Thomas got things started in the first, launching a four hundred twenty-one foot shot to left center that brought in Cam Jensen and gave the Royals a two-nothing lead before San Diego could blink. The Padres answered in the third when Fernando Tatis Junior went deep himself — four hundred eleven feet to left center — cutting it to two-one and giving the home crowd something to believe in. But that was as close as it would get. Kansas City came right back in that same inning, Jonah Caglianone doubling home Jensen again to push it three-one, and any momentum San Diego had built evaporated almost immediately.

The fourth inning put it out of reach. Zach Collins singled home Michael Massey to make it four-one, and then Salvador Perez delivered the knockout blow in the sixth — a four hundred thirty-eight foot cannon shot to center, two-run homer, and suddenly it was six-one and the Padres were cooked.

Thomas finished two for four with two RBI and that early home run set the tone. Jensen scored twice and reached base three times doing the little things that win ballgames. For San Diego, Tatis was the lone bright spot — one for two with two walks and that solo shot. Bogaerts, Machado, Merrill — all silent.

Kansas City never let San Diego breathe tonight, and it wasn't particularly close. That's your post-game report. Sports Desk, signing off.

AI-generated post-game report composed from the official play-by-play and box score.

Who Scored — Scoring Timeline

Thomas homered to left center (421 feet), Jensen scored. P1 · 0–2
Tatis Jr. homered to left center (411 feet). P3 · 1–2
Caglianone doubled to left, Jensen scored. P3 · 1–3
Collins singled to center, Massey scored. P4 · 1–4
Perez homered to center (438 feet), Pasquantino scored. P6 · 1–6

Complete Play-by-Play

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Top of the 1st inning P1

Randy Dobnak pitches to Fernando Tatis Jr. P1

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P1

Pitch 3 : Ball 3 P1

Pitch 4 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Looking P1

Pitch 6 : Ball 4 P1

Tatis Jr. walked. P1

Randy Dobnak pitches to Jackson Merrill P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P1

Merrill struck out swinging. P1

Randy Dobnak pitches to Xander Bogaerts P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P1

Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Looking P1

Bogaerts struck out looking. P1

Randy Dobnak pitches to Manny Machado P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P1

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P1

Tatis Jr. stole second. P1

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P1

Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P1

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 6 : Ball 4 P1

Machado walked. P1

Randy Dobnak pitches to Gavin Sheets P1

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P1

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P1

Sheets flied out to right. P1

Middle of the 1st inning P1

Bottom of the 1st inning P1

Griffin Canning pitches to Carter Jensen P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P1

Jensen singled to right. P1

Griffin Canning pitches to Bobby Witt Jr. P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P1

Witt Jr. struck out swinging. P1

Griffin Canning pitches to Jac Caglianone P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P1

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P1

Caglianone lined out to third. P1

Griffin Canning pitches to Lane Thomas P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P1

Thomas homered to left center (421 feet), Jensen scored. P1

Griffin Canning pitches to Vinnie Pasquantino P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P1

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P1

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P1

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P1

Pasquantino flied out to center. P1

End of the 1st inning P1

Top of the 2nd inning P2

Randy Dobnak pitches to Ty France P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P2

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P2

Pitch 5 : Ball 2 P2

Pitch 6 : Ball 3 P2

Pitch 7 : Strike 2 Foul P2

Pitch 8 : Ball In Play P2

France grounded out to shortstop. P2

Randy Dobnak pitches to Jake Cronenworth P2

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P2

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Foul P2

Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P2

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P2

Cronenworth doubled to right. P2

Randy Dobnak pitches to Miguel Andujar P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P2

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P2

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P2

Andujar grounded out to third, Cronenworth to third. P2

Randy Dobnak pitches to Freddy Fermin P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P2

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P2

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P2

Fermin lined out to center. P2

Middle of the 2nd inning P2

Bottom of the 2nd inning P2

Griffin Canning pitches to Salvador Perez P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P2

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P2

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P2

Perez struck out swinging. P2

Griffin Canning pitches to Michael Massey P2

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P2

Massey reached on infield single to first. Kansas City Royals challenged: call on the field was overturned. P2

Griffin Canning pitches to Nick Loftin P2

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P2

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P2

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P2

Loftin struck out swinging. P2

Griffin Canning pitches to Isaac Collins P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P2

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P2

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P2

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P2

Collins struck out swinging. P2

End of the 2nd inning P2

Top of the 3rd inning P3

Randy Dobnak pitches to Fernando Tatis Jr. P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P3

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P3

Tatis Jr. homered to left center (411 feet). P3

Randy Dobnak pitches to Jackson Merrill P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P3

Merrill lined out to right. P3

Randy Dobnak pitches to Xander Bogaerts P3

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P3

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 6 : Ball 3 P3

Pitch 7 : Strike 3 Swinging P3

Bogaerts struck out swinging. P3

Randy Dobnak pitches to Manny Machado P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P3

Machado grounded out to shortstop. P3

Middle of the 3rd inning P3

Bottom of the 3rd inning P3

Griffin Canning pitches to Carter Jensen P3

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P3

Pitch 3 : Ball 3 P3

Pitch 4 : Ball 4 P3

Jensen walked. P3

Griffin Canning pitches to Bobby Witt Jr. P3

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P3

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P3

Witt Jr. flied out to center. P3

Griffin Canning pitches to Jac Caglianone P3

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P3

Caglianone doubled to left, Jensen scored. P3

Griffin Canning pitches to Lane Thomas P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P3

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P3

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P3

Thomas grounded out to pitcher, Caglianone to third. P3

Griffin Canning pitches to Vinnie Pasquantino P3

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P3

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P3

Pasquantino popped out to third. P3

End of the 3rd inning P3

Top of the 4th inning P4

Randy Dobnak pitches to Gavin Sheets P4

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P4

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Swinging P4

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P4

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P4

Sheets lined out to left. P4

Randy Dobnak pitches to Ty France P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P4

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P4

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 7 : Ball In Play P4

France doubled to left. P4

Randy Dobnak pitches to Jake Cronenworth P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P4

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P4

Cronenworth grounded out to third. P4

Randy Dobnak pitches to Miguel Andujar P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P4

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P4

Andujar grounded out to shortstop. P4

Middle of the 4th inning P4

Bottom of the 4th inning P4

Griffin Canning pitches to Salvador Perez P4

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P4

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P4

Perez grounded out to first. P4

Griffin Canning pitches to Michael Massey P4

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P4

Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P4

Pitch 5 : Ball 4 P4

Massey walked. P4

Griffin Canning pitches to Nick Loftin P4

Pitch 1 : Automatic Strike - Pitch Timer Violation 1 P4

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P4

Loftin grounded out to second, Massey to second. P4

Griffin Canning pitches to Isaac Collins P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P4

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P4

Collins singled to center, Massey scored. P4

Waldron relieved Canning P4

Matt Waldron pitches to Carter Jensen P4

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P4

Collins caught stealing second, catcher to shortstop. P4

End of the 4th inning P4

Top of the 5th inning P5

Randy Dobnak pitches to Freddy Fermin P5

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P5

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P5

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P5

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P5

Fermin hit a ground rule double. P5

Randy Dobnak pitches to Fernando Tatis Jr. P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P5

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P5

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Swinging P5

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P5

Pitch 6 : Ball 4 P5

Tatis Jr. walked. P5

Randy Dobnak pitches to Jackson Merrill P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P5

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P5

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P5

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P5

Merrill lined out to left. P5

Randy Dobnak pitches to Xander Bogaerts P5

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P5

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P5

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P5

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P5

Pitch 6 : Ball 4 P5

Bogaerts walked, Tatis Jr. to second, Fermin to third. P5

Cruz relieved Dobnak P5

Steven Cruz pitches to Manny Machado P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P5

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P5

Machado grounded into double play, shortstop to second to first, Bogaerts out at second. P5

Middle of the 5th inning P5

Bottom of the 5th inning P5

Matt Waldron pitches to Carter Jensen P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P5

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P5

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Swinging P5

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Looking P5

Jensen struck out looking. P5

Matt Waldron pitches to Bobby Witt Jr. P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P5

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P5

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P5

Witt Jr. grounded out to first. P5

Matt Waldron pitches to Jac Caglianone P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P5

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P5

Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P5

Caglianone struck out swinging. P5

End of the 5th inning P5

Top of the 6th inning P6

Lynch IV relieved Cruz P6

Daniel Lynch IV pitches to Gavin Sheets P6

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P6

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P6

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P6

Sheets grounded out to second. P6

Daniel Lynch IV pitches to Ty France P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P6

France doubled to left. P6

Daniel Lynch IV pitches to Jake Cronenworth P6

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P6

Cronenworth reached on bunt single to pitcher, France to third. P6

Daniel Lynch IV pitches to Miguel Andujar P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P6

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P6

Andujar grounded into double play, shortstop to second to first, Cronenworth out at second. P6

Middle of the 6th inning P6

Bottom of the 6th inning P6

Matt Waldron pitches to Lane Thomas P6

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P6

Thomas popped out to first. P6

Matt Waldron pitches to Vinnie Pasquantino P6

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P6

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P6

Pasquantino singled to right. P6

Matt Waldron pitches to Salvador Perez P6

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P6

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P6

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P6

Perez homered to center (438 feet), Pasquantino scored. P6

Matt Waldron pitches to Michael Massey P6

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P6

Massey grounded out to first. P6

Matt Waldron pitches to Nick Loftin P6

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P6

Loftin bunt grounded out to pitcher. P6

End of the 6th inning P6

Top of the 7th inning P7

Daniel Lynch IV pitches to Freddy Fermin P7

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P7

Pitch 3 : Ball 3 P7

Pitch 4 : Strike 1 Looking P7

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P7

Fermin flied out to center. P7

Daniel Lynch IV pitches to Fernando Tatis Jr. P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P7

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P7

Tatis Jr. grounded out to shortstop. P7

Daniel Lynch IV pitches to Jackson Merrill P7

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P7

Pitch 3 : Ball 3 P7

Pitch 4 : Strike 1 Looking P7

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P7

Merrill flied out to center. P7

Middle of the 7th inning P7

Bottom of the 7th inning P7

Marinaccio relieved Waldron P7

Ron Marinaccio pitches to Isaac Collins P7

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P7

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P7

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Swinging P7

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 6 : Ball 3 P7

Pitch 7 : Strike 3 Swinging P7

Collins struck out swinging. P7

Ron Marinaccio pitches to Carter Jensen P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P7

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P7

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P7

Jensen doubled to center. P7

Ron Marinaccio pitches to Bobby Witt Jr. P7

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P7

Witt Jr. grounded out to first, Jensen to third. P7

Ron Marinaccio pitches to Jac Caglianone P7

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P7

Caglianone grounded out to first. P7

End of the 7th inning P7

Top of the 8th inning P8

Way relieved Lynch IV P8

Beck Way pitches to Xander Bogaerts P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P8

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 4 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 5 : Ball 2 P8

Pitch 6 : Ball 3 P8

Pitch 7 : Ball In Play P8

Bogaerts grounded out to pitcher. P8

Beck Way pitches to Manny Machado P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P8

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P8

Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P8

Machado struck out swinging. P8

Beck Way pitches to Gavin Sheets P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P8

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P8

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P8

Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P8

Sheets struck out swinging. P8

Middle of the 8th inning P8

Bottom of the 8th inning P8

Brito relieved Marinaccio P8

Jhony Brito pitches to Lane Thomas P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P8

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P8

Thomas doubled to left. P8

Jhony Brito pitches to Vinnie Pasquantino P8

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P8

Pasquantino flied out to center, Thomas to third. P8

Jhony Brito pitches to Salvador Perez P8

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P8

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P8

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P8

Perez struck out swinging. P8

Jhony Brito pitches to Michael Massey P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P8

Massey flied out to left. P8

End of the 8th inning P8

Top of the 9th inning P9

Morgan relieved Way P9

Eli Morgan pitches to Ty France P9

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P9

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P9

Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P9

Pitch 5 : Ball 4 P9

France walked. P9

Eli Morgan pitches to Jake Cronenworth P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P9

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P9

Cronenworth popped out to shortstop. P9

Eli Morgan pitches to Miguel Andujar P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P9

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P9

Andujar grounded into double play, shortstop to second to first, France out at second. P9