The beginning of this game was promising for the Royals. By the time Salvador Perez, today’s cleanup hitter, was walking back to the dugout they already had a run and Mike Clevinger appeared to be on the ropes, a bit. Fortunately for him, he has perhaps the most underappreciated shortstop in baseball playing on his team, Francisco Lindor.
Lindor leads off for Cleveland and he immediately doubled to left in the bottom of the inning against Jakob Junis. Michael Brantley followed up with a single and the game was tied.