Michael Wacha gave the Royals another solid start on Friday.

“When we see Wacha was going to pitch, we feel like we’re going to win every single game,” Garcia said. He shows up every night. He throws a lot of pitches and he executes every pitch — changeups, sinkers, cutters. And that’s great to have Wacha here. He did a great job today and all season long.”

Bobby Witt Jr. exited last night’s game early with back spasms.

It was not immediately clear when Witt felt the spasms during the game. He took an at-bat in the bottom of the fifth inning and struck out against Twins starter Pablo López, swinging at a changeup that dove below the zone. Witt jogged out to shortstop like normal for the top of the sixth and helped record two outs, first ranging to his left on Luke Keaschall’s grounder s

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