Both the Royals and Rangers opted for a bullpen game tonight, with Gabe Speier starting for Kansas City and Matt Bush taking the mound for Texas. It paid dividends for the Royals as the bullpen dominated a scuffling Rangers lineup and the lineup broke through late en route to a 8-2 victory.
Both “starters” did their job as Speier tossed two scoreless innings to open the game and Bush provided a scoreless inning for Texas. Kolby Allard followed Bush and the Royals managed to strike against him. Allard’s first pitch of the third inning was a 92 mph fastball right down Broadway to Whit Merrifield and he didn’t miss it, parking it in the left field seats for his first homer of the season.