KANSAS CITY (Interstat) — Kevin Gausman threw seven innings of four-hit ball and the Chicago Cubs used a four-run second inning to beat the Kansas City Royals 6-4 on Friday night at Kauffman Stadium.

Cubs got going in the second when Pete Crow-Armstrong’s single plated two. Seiya Suzuki followed with a two-run single. Crow-Armstrong scored on Alex Bregman’s single in the seventh, and the Cubs added a run in the eighth. Kansas City scored single runs in the first and fifth before Bobby Witt Jr.’s RBI single and Salvador Perez’s run-scoring groundout in the eighth.

Gausman allowed two earned runs and struck out four to improve to 6-10. Daniel Lynch IV took the loss. Jacob Webb notched his seventh save. Pedro Ramírez homered for Chicago, while Carter Jensen homered and Isaac Collins drove in a run for Kansas City.

Attendance was 26,083. Time of game was 2:36. The Cubs improved to 68-49, and the Royals dropped to 48-69.