NEXT GAME Seattle Mariners vs. Kansas City Royals - Wednesday, June 23, 2015 at 7:10 p.m. (ROOT Sports)

LHP Roenis Elias (4-4, 3.56) vs.

LHP Danny Duffy (2-3, 5.87)

KANSAS CITY ROYALS (40-28) vs. SEATTLE MARINERS (33-39) Tuesday, June 23, 2015 Safeco Field

LINESCORE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB

Kansas City Royals 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 4 0 6

Seattle Mariners 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 1 x - 7 10 2 8

First Pitch: 7:10 Time of Game: 2:23 Temp: 78º/N at 2 mph Attendance: 17,460

WP: Mike Montgomery (2-2, 2.04) LP: Jeremy Guthrie (5-5, 5.90) SV: None

HOME RUNS: NO. PITCHER INN. MOB OUT COUNT DISTANCE

Dustin Ackley (SEA) 5 Guthrie 5 1 2 2-2 3855/RC

Logan Morrison (SEA) 9 Mariot 8 0 1 1-2 381/R

MARINERS NOTES:

Mike Montgomery tossed the 15th shutout by a rookie in Mariners history. o Last rookie shutout was by Roenis Elias on June 1, 2014 vs. Detroit.

Mike Montgomery struck out a career-high 10 batters (previous high: 4, 2x, last: June 13 at HOU). o In minor league career, struck out 9+ hitters three times (last: April 26, 2014 vs. Scranton WB).

Struck out minor league career high 13 April 13, 2010 at Kingston.

Mike Montgomery has a 2.04 ERA (8 ER, 35.1 IP) in his first 5 Major League starts. o His 2.04 ERA is the 5th-lowest ERA by a Mariners pitcher through first 5 MLB appearances, all starts.

Mike Montgomery tossed a career-high 9.0 innings (previous high: 7.1, June 18 vs. San Francisco). o Has tossed 7.0+ innings in 3 of his 5 starts including 3 of his last 4.

Has tossed 6.0+ innings in all five of his Major League starts.

The complete game shutout is the 3rd by the Mariners this season. o Also: Felix Hernandez on May 27 at Tampa Bay & April 24 vs. Minnesota.

Dustin Ackley went 3-for-3 with 2 runs, 1 double, 1 home run and 2 RBI vs. Jeremy Guthrie. o In his career against Guthrie is hitting .692 (9x13) with 4 doubles and 3 home runs.

Dustin Ackley recorded a season-high 3 hits…last recorded 3 hits Aug. 24, 2014 at Boston.

Robinson Canó is hitting .323 (10x31) with 4 runs, 3 doubles, 1 home run and 4 RBI since June 15. o Has hit safely in 6 of last 8 games with 3 multi-hit games.

Seattle has scored 5+ runs in 3 of the past 5 games after being shut out in 4 of the previous 8 games.

Seth Smith is batting .750 (6x8) in his career against Jeremy Guthrie with 2 doubles and 3 RBI.

ROYALS NOTES:

Kansas City was shut out for the 5th time this season (last: June 12 at St. Louis). Jeremy Guthrie has lost 6 straight decisions against Seattle (since June 10, 2009).

o During the losing streak, is 0-6 with a 7.19 ERA (41 ER, 51.1 IP) in 9 starts.

Jeremy Guthrie has lost each of his last 3 road starts (since May 25). o In the 3 road losses, has a 16.36 ERA (20 ER, 11.0 IP) with 6 home runs allowed. o In his first 4 road games, was 3-0 with a 4.44 ERA (12 ER, 24.1 IP) with 1 home run allowed.

Mike Moustakas extended his hitting streak to a season-high 8 games, tied for the third longest of his career and longest since and 8-game streak from 8/28/12-9/04/12.

o During the streak he is hitting .387 (12x31) with 5 runs, 3 doubles, 1 home run and 8 RBI.

Mike Moustakas has hit safely in 15 of his last 16 games since June 5. o In that stretch is hitting .355 [22x62] with 7 runs, 4 doubles, 1 home run and 11 RBI.

Kendrys Morales extended his hitting streak to 7 games (since June 17). o During the streak he is hitting .385 (10x26) with 2 runs, 1 home run and 4 RBI.

ROYALS MANAGER NED YOST: On Mike Montgomery’s dominating performance “We definitely had opportunities in the first two innings. What Montgomery did was, he went to a changeup and his changeup was really, really good tonight. We swung at a bunch of balls out of the zone.There was no more hitting after that. He just settled in, starting spotting his fastball really well and mixing in that really good changeup. On Jeremy Guthrie’s outing “I thought he pitched better than his line. I thought he did a great job pitching out of the jam, second and third in the second inning. In the fourth inning, obviously the two walks hurt him, but I think there was only one ball hit hard. They weren’t really hitting the ball hard, but found a way to score three runs.