KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Jakob Junis had just served up a home run to JaCoby Jones and a base hit to Jeimer Candelario, and the Royals' young right-hander could feel the inning starting to get away from him.
So when he turned around to watch his infield turn a timely double-play on a grounder by Jose Iglesias, Junis wheeled right back around with the kind of fist pump rare for the soft-spoken starter.
"That was a big at-bat," Junis said. "Who knows if I would have gotten a chance to go back out."
Junis did indeed get to go back out for the ninth, and when he mowed through Detroit's lineup one more time, he had his first career complete game.