The Kansas City Royals fell to 65-61 by losing 3-0 on Wednesday. They remain within 7.0 games of AL Central leading Cleveland. The Royals fell to 4.5 games behind the Orioles for the second AL wild card pending the results of Wednesday’s games. The Marlins improved to 66-61 and remain second place in the NL East.
KC Royals no. 5 starter Dillion Gee matched zeros with Jose Fernandez through five innings until running into trouble in the sixth.
Fernandez slapped a one-out single to begin the trouble. Dee Gordon and Martin Prado followed with singles to load the bases, before Chris Yelich slapped a single to right to drive in two runs.