Winners of just three of their previous eleven games, the World Champion Kansas City Royals entered action with the first-place Cleveland baseball team donning a racist caricature on their hats and sleeves trailing said team by eight games. With their rotation on a bit of a roll but their offense reeling and in serious need of some iron to treat its critical case of anemia, the Royals faced a daunting foe in the form of Corey Kluber.
Tasked to try to keep the Royals in the game facing a first-place team with an offense that has not done much lately, Edinson Volquez got the start for the Royals.