KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Brady Singer threw seven shutout innings to lead the Kansas City Royals to a 6-1 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Saturday night.
''You can't get much better,'' Royals manager Matt Quatraro said. ''The efficiency, every inning except the one. Location, he seemed to have it on both sides of the plate. He also had some bigger breaking balls and that kept them off balance.''
Singer faced the minimum through three before running into fourth-inning trouble, walking two to load the bases. He escaped with a strikeout and retired 10 of the final 13 hitters.
''Obviously, didn't want a big inning to happen there, so to get out of those jams and put up a zero was huge,'' Singer said. ''The biggest thing was getting deep in the game, controlling my pitch count and pitching into the seventh inning.''
Singer (6-6) allowed five singles with two walks and seven strikeouts to earn his second win in his last 10 starts.
''Sinker was great,'' he said. ''Slider was good. I thought the sweeper was better, my best pitch of the night. I was able to use that a lot more tonight.''
The major league-worst White Sox have dropped six straight and nine of their last 10 games. They have lost 10 consecutive road series since their last win, May 3-5 at St. Louis.
''We had some opportunities to put some runs on the board and we just didn't,'' manager Pedro Grifol said. ''(Singer) sinks it. He's got late, late life on it. When he's got his fastball going, he's got his command going, he's got his slider, he's pretty tough to hit.''
