KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Royals had shown very little fight in a three-game sweep by the St. Louis Cardinals over the weekend.
They showed about three games’ worth of it Monday night.
After answering about every time the Houston Astros tied the game or pulled ahead, Salvador Perez capped the back-and-forth affair with a two-out single in the eighth inning that lifted the Royals to a 7-6 victory over the AL West leaders.
“We just played three games that I felt were very uncharacteristic. We didn’t display any kind of whatever,” Royals manager Mike Matheny said. “It wasn’t like us, and to see them come out — we talk about teams having short memories and it’s pretty amazing how these guys forget about the last one and come back and keep going.”
