For the first five innings, this was a reasonably entertaining baseball game. Cole Ragans and José Berríos were engaged in a pitchers’ duel. Berríos was attempting to recover from a disastrous August while the Blue Jays chase a Wild Card spot. Ragans was attempting to continue his dominance while preventing the Royals from reaching 100 losses for one more day.
In the top of the sixth, the Royals finally got to Berríos; Kyle Isbel hit a triple into the right field corner - aided by MLB’s apparent disdain for errors this season - before Bobby Witt Jr.