KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Royals fans may want to keep their ticket stubs from Tuesday’s game. The price of admission wasn’t enough to justify the oddities that occurred at Kauffman Stadium.
The Royals mustered two hits against the Cleveland Guardians. Freddy Fermin hit a single in the third inning and Edward Olivares doubled in the eighth, a leadoff shot off the left-field wall that paved the way to a 1-0 KC lead entering the ninth.
Yet somehow, the Royals let victory slip through their grasp again. The Guardians scored two in the ninth — both men crossing the plate on a double to right off closer Scott Barlow by Blue Valley High and K-State product Will Brennan — to win the series opener 2-1.
