The Kansas City Royals improved to 68-62 bywinning 10-4 on Sunday night. They pulled within 5.5 games behind AL Central leading Cleveland. Kansas City remains 3.0 games behind the Orioles for the second AL wild card. Boston fell to 72-58 and dropped to 2.0 games behind the Blue Jays in the AL East.
Kansas City Royals starter Yordano Ventura struggled with his command all night, but was pitching effectively through the first four innings. Staked to an early 2-0 lead on Salvaldor Perez’s solo shot and Paulo Orlando‘s sacrifice fly in the second, Ventura wobbled through the first three innings without giving up a run.