The pitch was supposed to be down and away, but Royals reliever Brandon Maurer instead left a fastball out over the center of the plate.
Cleveland’s Yonder Alonzo pounced, hitting a two-run homer in the eighth inning of Friday’s game that flipped a Royals advantage into an Indians lead at Kauffman Stadium.
For a Royals team that has seen the bullpen saddled with 29 combined losses and 20 blown saves, this was an all-too-familiar scene this season.
Royals manager Ned Yost called it “deflating at that point.”
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