After a week of losing baseball, the Royals found a way to win in extras with a 1-0 victory over the Nationals. The win snaps a seven-game slide that began last Sunday.
The game was nothing but a pitcher’s duel for the first nine innings. Cole Ragans shoved for six scoreless innings and Washington starter Mitchell Parker shut out Kansas City in five innings of work.
Unlike Ragans, Parker dealt with a lot of danger on the bases. In the top of the first, he loaded the bases with nobody out. However, he danced out of it with a lineout that turned into a double play and a nifty play on a grounder back to the mound.