After the Royals mustered only three hits in the first seven innings Tuesday night against Pirates starter and National League All-Star Gerrit Cole, Jarrod Dyson’s two-run single in the bottom of the eighth proved to be the deciding runs in the Royals’ 3-1 victory over Pittsburgh.
The base knock caused the sellout crowd of 38,163 at Kauffman Stadium to explode and chased Cole from the ballgame.
“The approach off that guy is just try to scratch and claw right there,” Dyson said. “Any time we can get some runs with the pitching we have, there’s always a great chance we can come out with a victory.