Overview
- Jo Adell homered and drove in all four runs in a 4-3 victory, lifting his season totals to career highs of 33 home runs and 90 RBIs.
- Reid Detmers struck out two in a clean ninth for his third save to close out the one-run win.
- Mitch Farris won his major league debut the night before, allowing one run over five innings in a 5-1 Angels win.
- Adell hit a 454-foot two-run homer off Michael Lorenzen in the opener, and Oswald Peraza added an RBI double as a wild pitch helped pad the lead.
- Mike Trout was scratched before the first game with a skin infection on his left arm and remained day-to-day as Kansas City fell to 70-69 and roughly 2.5 games back of the final AL wild card.