Entering Sunday’s game, the Royals owned baseball’s best ERA among starting pitchers and the Angels’ had the second-worst.
Ian Kennedy made sure the Royals maintained their trend. Tyler Skaggs was totally out of character for the Angels.
A pitcher’s duel on an overcast Sunday at Kauffman Stadium produced the best starting pitching effort of the season by both teams and a 1-0 Royals walk-off victory.
Salvador Perez opened the ninth by dropping a single into left field over reliever Blake Parker and gave way to pinch runner Raul Mondesi.
Up stepped Mike Moustakas, the hero of Saturday’s 3-2 victory with an eighth-inning go-ahead home run and swinging one the team’s hottest bats.