A night after the Kansas City Royals lost a complete blowout to the Oakland Athletics, the Royals demonstrated their impeccable ability to be defeated in a cornucopia of fashions by losing a one-run game to the same Athletics, 2-1. While it was closer, it wasn’t nearly as fun.
Mike Montgomery offered a quality start—both in the technical sense and the realistic one—to give the Royals a great chance to win the game. It wasn’t always a given, though, as Monty wriggled out of a few early messes. The first mess was in the first inning after third baseman Cheslor Cuthbert made an error.