Though the Kansas City Royals crawled back from a four-run deficit against the Los Angeles Angels with a three-run sixth inning capped by Salvador Perez’s 1000th career hit, the Royals bullpen immediately coughed up two three-run innings of their own. Such a deficit proved to be insurmountable, as the Angels beat the Royals in the opening game of their series and Kansas City’s ten-day homestand, 10-3.
For a while, it certainly seemed like Angels starter Alex Cobb was going to be the story of the night. Cobb, perhaps most known among Royals fans as the pitcher whose skull was the recipient of a screaming Eric Hosmer line drive in Tampa Bay in 2013, survived the terrifying event, and to his credit has stuck around in the Major Leagues.