The Kansas City Royals had plenty of baserunners but were completely unable to come up with the big hit, wasting an excellent Cole Ragans start to lose to the Detroit Tigers 3-1.
The Tigers wasted no time against Ragans. Andy Ibáñez got behind in the count before taking 98 to the elbow. It looked an awful lot like Ibáñez leaned into the pitch, but he was nevertheless awarded first. Matt Vierling followed by belting a middle-middle cutter off the wall in left field, scoring Ibáñez from first. Ragans managed to get three straight groundballs to end the inning without further damage, but Detroit led 1-0 before any Royals picked up a bat.