San Francisco Giants 2 – 3 Kansas City Royals

MLB · July 21, 2026 · Final

🎧 Post-Game Report (audio)

Post-Game Recap

The Kansas City Royals edged the San Francisco Giants tonight, three to two, in a game that swung twice before the Royals finally grabbed the lead for good in the sixth.

Kansas City drew first blood in the third when Colton Jensen went the other way, a four hundred sixteen foot shot to right center, and just like that the Royals had one on the board. San Francisco answered in the fifth with a pair — Gilbert singled home J. Rodríguez to tie it, then Ramos grounded into a fielder's choice that scored Gilbert, and when shortstop Tolbert airmailed the throw, the Giants had themselves a two to one lead and a gift from the Royals defense.

But Kansas City wasn't done. The sixth inning belonged entirely to them. Pasquantino singled to center to score Collins and knot it at two, and then Loftin followed with a single to left, Perez came around to score, and that was the margin that held. Three to two, final.

Jensen set the tone early with his solo shot, and Loftin delivered the dagger. For San Francisco, Ramos drove in the go-ahead run only to watch the bullpen and the bats go quiet when it mattered most — Devers went oh for four, Schmitt couldn't find a hit, and the Giants left too many opportunities on the table down the stretch.

Kansas City wins it on a sixth-inning rally they built with two swings of situational hitting. That's your post-game report. Sports Desk, signing off.

AI-generated post-game report composed from the official play-by-play and box score.

Who Scored — Scoring Timeline

Jensen homered to right center (416 feet). P3 · 0–1
Gilbert singled to right, J. Rodríguez scored. P5 · 1–1
Ramos grounded into fielder's choice to shortstop, Gilbert scored, Koss to second, Koss safe at third on throwing error by shortstop Tolbert. P5 · 2–1
Pasquantino singled to center, Collins scored, Perez to third. P6 · 2–2
Loftin singled to left, Perez scored, Marte to second, Pasquantino to third. P6 · 2–3

Complete Play-by-Play

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Top of the 1st inning P1

Luinder Avila pitches to Heliot Ramos P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P1

Ramos hit by pitch. P1

Luinder Avila pitches to Bryce Eldridge P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P1

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P1

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P1

Eldridge singled to left, Ramos to second. P1

Luinder Avila pitches to Casey Schmitt P1

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P1

Schmitt popped out to third. P1

Luinder Avila pitches to Rafael Devers P1

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P1

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Foul P1

Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P1

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P1

Devers grounded into double play, second to shortstop to first, Eldridge out at second. P1

Middle of the 1st inning P1

Bottom of the 1st inning P1

Tyler Mahle pitches to Carter Jensen P1

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P1

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P1

Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P1

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P1

Jensen grounded out to second. P1

Tyler Mahle pitches to Lane Thomas P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P1

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P1

Thomas flied out to center. P1

Tyler Mahle pitches to Jac Caglianone P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P1

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P1

Caglianone grounded out to first. P1

End of the 1st inning P1

Top of the 2nd inning P2

Luinder Avila pitches to Willy Adames P2

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P2

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P2

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P2

Adames struck out swinging. P2

Luinder Avila pitches to Jung Hoo Lee P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P2

Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P2

Lee struck out swinging. P2

Luinder Avila pitches to Jesus Rodriguez P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P2

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P2

J. Rodríguez grounded out to third. P2

Middle of the 2nd inning P2

Bottom of the 2nd inning P2

Tyler Mahle pitches to Salvador Perez P2

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P2

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P2

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Swinging P2

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P2

Perez struck out swinging. P2

Tyler Mahle pitches to Vinnie Pasquantino P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P2

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P2

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P2

Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P2

Pitch 7 : Strike 2 Foul P2

Pitch 8 : Strike 3 Swinging P2

Pasquantino struck out swinging. P2

Tyler Mahle pitches to Starling Marte P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P2

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P2

Marte singled to left. P2

Tyler Mahle pitches to Michael Massey P2

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P2

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P2

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P2

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P2

Massey singled to left, Marte to second. P2

Tyler Mahle pitches to Nick Loftin P2

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P2

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P2

Loftin flied out to right. P2

End of the 2nd inning P2

Top of the 3rd inning P3

Luinder Avila pitches to Drew Gilbert P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P3

Gilbert struck out swinging. P3

Luinder Avila pitches to Christian Koss P3

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P3

Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P3

Pitch 5 : Ball 4 P3

Koss walked. P3

Luinder Avila pitches to Heliot Ramos P3

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P3

Ramos grounded into double play, second to shortstop to first, Koss out at second. P3

Middle of the 3rd inning P3

Bottom of the 3rd inning P3

Tyler Mahle pitches to Tyler Tolbert P3

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P3

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P3

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P3

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P3

Tolbert flied out to center. P3

Tyler Mahle pitches to Carter Jensen P3

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P3

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P3

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 7 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 8 : Ball In Play P3

Jensen homered to right center (416 feet). P3

Tyler Mahle pitches to Lane Thomas P3

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P3

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Looking P3

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 7 : Strike 3 Swinging P3

Thomas struck out swinging. P3

Tyler Mahle pitches to Jac Caglianone P3

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P3

Caglianone struck out swinging. P3

End of the 3rd inning P3

Top of the 4th inning P4

Luinder Avila pitches to Bryce Eldridge P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P4

Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P4

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 7 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 8 : Strike 3 Looking P4

Eldridge struck out looking. Kansas City Royals challenged: call on the field was overturned. P4

Luinder Avila pitches to Casey Schmitt P4

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P4

Schmitt grounded out to third. P4

Luinder Avila pitches to Rafael Devers P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P4

Devers flied out to left. P4

Middle of the 4th inning P4

Bottom of the 4th inning P4

Tyler Mahle pitches to Salvador Perez P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P4

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P4

Perez grounded out to shortstop. P4

Tyler Mahle pitches to Vinnie Pasquantino P4

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P4

Pasquantino singled to right. P4

Tyler Mahle pitches to Starling Marte P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P4

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P4

Marte flied out to center. P4

Tyler Mahle pitches to Michael Massey P4

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P4

Massey flied out to center. P4

End of the 4th inning P4

Top of the 5th inning P5

Luinder Avila pitches to Willy Adames P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P5

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P5

Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P5

Adames struck out swinging. P5

Luinder Avila pitches to Jung Hoo Lee P5

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P5

Lee grounded out to pitcher. P5

Luinder Avila pitches to Jesus Rodriguez P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P5

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P5

J. Rodríguez doubled to right. P5

Luinder Avila pitches to Drew Gilbert P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P5

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P5

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P5

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P5

Gilbert singled to right, J. Rodríguez scored. P5

Luinder Avila pitches to Christian Koss P5

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P5

Koss singled to left, Gilbert to third. P5

Luinder Avila pitches to Heliot Ramos P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P5

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P5

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P5

Ramos grounded into fielder's choice to shortstop, Gilbert scored, Koss to second, Koss safe at third on throwing error by shortstop Tolbert. P5

Luinder Avila pitches to Bryce Eldridge P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P5

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P5

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P5

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P5

Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P5

Eldridge struck out swinging. P5

Middle of the 5th inning P5

Bottom of the 5th inning P5

Tyler Mahle pitches to Nick Loftin P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P5

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P5

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Looking P5

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P5

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P5

Loftin singled to left. P5

Tyler Mahle pitches to Tyler Tolbert P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Bunted Foul P5

Tolbert hit sacrifice bunt to pitcher, Loftin to second. P5

Tyler Mahle pitches to Carter Jensen P5

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P5

Jensen flied out to left. P5

Tyler Mahle pitches to Lane Thomas P5

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P5

Thomas grounded out to second. P5

End of the 5th inning P5

Top of the 6th inning P6

Collins in left field. P6

Marte in right field. P6

Luinder Avila pitches to Casey Schmitt P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P6

Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P6

Schmitt struck out swinging. P6

Luinder Avila pitches to Rafael Devers P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P6

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P6

Devers grounded out to first. P6

Luinder Avila pitches to Willy Adames P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P6

Adames popped out to second. P6

Middle of the 6th inning P6

Bottom of the 6th inning P6

Tyler Mahle pitches to Isaac Collins P6

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P6

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P6

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P6

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P6

Pitch 6 : Ball 4 P6

Collins walked. P6

Tyler Mahle pitches to Salvador Perez P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P6

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P6

Perez hit by pitch, Collins to second. P6

Hentges relieved Mahle P6

Sam Hentges pitches to Vinnie Pasquantino P6

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P6

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P6

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P6

Pasquantino singled to center, Collins scored, Perez to third. P6

Sam Hentges pitches to Starling Marte P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P6

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P6

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P6

Marte hit by pitch, Pasquantino to second. P6

Sam Hentges pitches to Michael Massey P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P6

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P6

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Looking P6

Massey struck out looking. P6

Winn relieved Hentges P6

Keaton Winn pitches to Nick Loftin P6

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P6

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P6

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P6

Loftin singled to left, Perez scored, Marte to second, Pasquantino to third. P6

Keaton Winn pitches to Tyler Tolbert P6

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P6

Tolbert popped out to shortstop. P6

Keaton Winn pitches to Carter Jensen P6

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P6

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P6

Jensen grounded out to second. P6

End of the 6th inning P6

Top of the 7th inning P7

Luinder Avila pitches to Jung Hoo Lee P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P7

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P7

Lee singled to right. P7

Luinder Avila pitches to Jesus Rodriguez P7

J. Rodríguez hit sacrifice bunt to third, Lee to second. P7

Strahm relieved Avila P7

Matt Strahm pitches to Drew Gilbert P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P7

Gilbert struck out swinging. P7

Matt Strahm pitches to Christian Koss P7

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P7

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P7

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 7 : Ball 3 P7

Pitch 8 : Ball In Play P7

Koss popped out to shortstop. P7

Middle of the 7th inning P7

Bottom of the 7th inning P7

Smith relieved Winn P7

Dylan Smith pitches to Lane Thomas P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P7

Thomas struck out swinging. P7

Dylan Smith pitches to Isaac Collins P7

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P7

Collins reached on infield single to shortstop. P7

Dylan Smith pitches to Salvador Perez P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P7

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P7

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 6 : Ball 3 P7

Pitch 7 : Strike 3 Swinging P7

Perez struck out swinging, Collins stole second. P7

Dylan Smith pitches to Vinnie Pasquantino P7

Pitch 1 : Automatic Ball - IBB 1 P7

Pitch 2 : Automatic Ball - IBB 2 P7

Pitch 3 : Automatic Ball - IBB 3 P7

Pitch 4 : Automatic Ball - IBB 4 P7

Pasquantino intentionally walked. P7

Dylan Smith pitches to Starling Marte P7

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P7

Marte grounded out to third. P7

End of the 7th inning P7

Top of the 8th inning P8

Schreiber relieved Strahm P8

John Schreiber pitches to Heliot Ramos P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P8

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P8

Ramos grounded out to second. P8

John Schreiber pitches to Bryce Eldridge P8

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P8

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P8

Eldridge flied out to left. P8

John Schreiber pitches to Casey Schmitt P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P8

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P8

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P8

Pitch 6 : Ball 4 P8

Schmitt walked. P8

John Schreiber pitches to Rafael Devers P8

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P8

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P8

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P8

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 6 : Ball 3 P8

Pitch 7 : Ball In Play P8

Devers lined out to left. P8

Middle of the 8th inning P8

Bottom of the 8th inning P8

Kilian relieved Smith P8

Caleb Kilian pitches to Michael Massey P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P8

Massey grounded out to first. P8

Caleb Kilian pitches to Nick Loftin P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P8

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P8

Loftin flied out to left. P8

Caleb Kilian pitches to Tyler Tolbert P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P8

Tolbert flied out to left. P8

End of the 8th inning P8

Top of the 9th inning P9

Lange relieved Schreiber P9

Alex Lange pitches to Willy Adames P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P9

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P9

Adames struck out swinging. P9

Alex Lange pitches to Jung Hoo Lee P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P9

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P9

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 6 : Ball 3 P9

Pitch 7 : Ball 4 P9

Lee walked. P9

McCray ran for Lee P9

Alex Lange pitches to Jesus Rodriguez P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P9

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P9

Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P9

J. Rodríguez struck out swinging. P9

Alex Lange pitches to Drew Gilbert P9

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P9

Gilbert lined out to left. P9