Through six innings this game was a very dull, low-scoring affair. Low-scoring games can be interesting but it requires it to be well-pitched. It was not. In fact, of the twelve half-innings, only four of them were without a baserunner. But only one run scored because the offenses just weren’t very good. And, for what it’s worth, the one run in that period scored when Danny Duffy barely clipped the elbow guard of Caleb Smith, his opposite number, on a pitch that was otherwise located in an area where pitches had been called strikes earlier in the night.
The Royals had hit a bunch of balls hard to turned into outs.