With the tall task of facing soon-to-be Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal, the Royals fell in the series finale to the Tigers 4-2. The sweep dwindles Kansas City’s Wild Card lead to three games over Detroit with the tiebreaker.
Going into Wednesday night, the Royals had a lot of success in facing Skubal throughout his career. In fact, they tagged him for a season-high five runs in the previous meeting.
In the bottom of the first, Yuli Gurriel continued his red-hot September with an RBI-single to left field to make it 1-0.
Yuli comes through in the 1st!