When a baseball game ends with a 10-6 score, the assumption
Taking advantage of a first inning in which Eduardo Rodriguez’s command was entirely absent, the Royals sent eight men to the plate in a three-run frame that only saw them record two base-hits. Whit Merrifield led the game off with a single on the sixth pitch of the at-bat, poking an outside changeup into right after getting into a two-strike hole against the Venezuelan southpaw. Rodriguez and Jorge Soler became embroiled in a ten-pitch stalemate that finally broke with a walk, and on the next pitch, Rodriguez plunked Mike Moustakas—DHing in the rain—in the forearm, a hit-by-pitch that eventually precipitated the exit of the stoic Grecian, sending him to the clubhouse for X-rays, but not before he trotted across home plate.