The first contest between the San Francisco Giants and Kansas City Royals since Game Seven of the 2014 World Series nevertheless yielded the same result as that game—a one-run victory by the Giants over the Royals with Kansas City stranding the tying run in scoring position, this game with a 2-1 score.
Though the impact of this game was significantly less than the last one between the two teams, Kansas City made up for it with an extraordinarily sloppy performance. The Royals left 11 men on base, and had more than one stranded baserunners in each of the eighth, ninth, 10th, and 11th innings.