KANSAS CITY —
The ball was crushed, cracked, clobbered through the sky.
Had he hit it higher, who knows how far it would have flown into the night.
The Angels got plenty of help in a 10-3 win over the Kansas City Royals on Monday, benefiting from several Royals blunders to score their first four runs and riding an electric 10-strikeout start from right-hander Alex Cobb to their seventh win in their first 10 games.
But it wasn’t until Shohei Ohtani unloaded on an elevated fastball in the seventh inning, breaking open what was a one-run game with a two-run double, that the Angels finally began to pull away.