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The Kansas City Royals built a 2-0 lead and came back to tie the game at 5-5, showing some fight. But in Major League Baseball, \u201calmost\u201d doesn\u2019t cut it, and the Chicago White Sox where the victors in tonight\u2019s contest.<\/p>\n
The Royals struck first. Bobby Baseball smacked a solo home run to give the Royals a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
The Royals also struck second, in the same inning! Salvador Perez<\/a> knocked his own solo home run.<\/p>\n At this point, let\u2019s go to a few sentences I said in the pregame:<\/p>\n Welp, Salvador Perez is hitting cleanup, dragging his .233 OBP along with him. Perez wasn\u2019t in the lineup on Sunday, so there was maybe some hope that he\u2019d be further down the lineup when he reappeared. The answer is: no. I\u2019m sure that won\u2019t negatively impact the game at all tonight, but we\u2019ll quote these sentences and see if that\u2019s correct truly or ironically.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n The good news is that the sentence was correct (truly), at least here! And Salvy did get another hit later, so he was legitimately productive there in his return to the game. Maybe some more off days are in order, TBH.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n On the pitching side of things, the Royals sent Stephen Kolek<\/a> to the mound in place of the injured Cole Ragans<\/a>. Kolek, somewhat famously, had started his Royals career with six consecutive quality starts. For four innings, Kolek sure seemed like it would be another quality start. But he ran into trouble in the fifth inning. With one out Drew Romo<\/a> (seems like a fake name, tbh) hit a home run. Sam Antonacci (also seems fake, who are these people) hit a double. And with Munetaka Murakami<\/a> up, the looming threat of a Murakami bomb to truly push the game over the edge was a problem.<\/p>\n But it wasn\u2019t Murakami who hit the bomb. That would be Chase Meidroth<\/a> (seems like a name from a Final Fantasy game, but I digress) two batters later. That gave the White Sox a 5-2 lead.<\/p>\n The Royals bats weren\u2019t done, though. In the sixth inning, Carter Jensen<\/a> walked and Jac Caglianone<\/a> hit a rocket line drive out to center field. Were the Royals finally going to do some damage? Yes, as it turns out. Isaac Collins<\/a> doubled to put runners on second and third. And for the second time in a week, Nick Loftin<\/a> hit a key RBI double. Later, Maikel Garcia<\/a> singled him home to tie the game. It was exciting.<\/p>\n\n