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 Houston Astros.
Scott Barlow (5-3), who who unable to preserve the lead in the eighth when he allowed an inherited runner to score, also gave up a homer to Jason Castro in the ninth. But he got a spectacular defensive play from Lopez at second base to retire Jake Meyers, and Jose Altuve popped out to end the game along with Kansas City’s four-game losing streak.
SS Adalberto Mondesi has backed off left-handed swings after some scar tissue from a previous oblique injury was found on that side. Mondesi is still doing some fielding work, throwing and swinging right-handed as he tries to come back from his third injured list stint of the season. His strained left oblique landed him on the IL on June 21.
The Royals placed RHP Greg Holland on the IL with a right shoulder impingement.
Kansas City’s Daniel Lynch (2-3, 5.97) gets the call as the series continues on Tuesday night at 7:10.