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Kansas City Royals 2 – 3 Minnesota Twins

MLB · July 28, 2026 · Final
🎧 Post-Game Report (audio)

Post-Game Recap

The Minnesota Twins edged the Kansas City Royals tonight, three to two, in a game that came down to one swing in the ninth.

Kansas City actually drew first blood in the fourth when Bell singled to center to plate Clemens and give the Royals the early lead. But the Twins answered in the sixth in the most unexpected way — Rojas stole home, flat out stole home, to tie it right back up. Minnesota wasn't done. Perez singled to right to score Thomas and push Kansas City back in front two to one, and it looked like the Royals were going to hold that lead into the final inning.

They didn't. Royce Lewis walked up in the ninth and absolutely crushed a triple to right field, scoring both Caratini and Lee in one shot, and just like that the Twins had flipped the game on its head, three to two, final.

Lewis was the story in that box score — one for one with two RBI and a walk, doing all his damage when it mattered most. Salvador Perez was the bright spot for Kansas City, going two for four with the go-ahead RBI, but it wasn't enough. Colson Jensen went oh for four with three strikeouts, and the Royals simply couldn't generate anything late when they needed it.

Minnesota stole a game tonight, literally and figuratively. 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

  1. Bell singled to center, Clemens scored. P4 · 0–1
  2. Rojas stole home, Thomas stole second. P6 · 1–1
  3. Rojas stole home, Thomas stole second. P6 · 1–1
  4. Perez singled to right, Thomas scored. P6 · 2–1
  5. Lewis tripled to right, Caratini scored and Lee scored. P9 · 2–3

Complete Play-by-Play

Show all 537 plays
Top of the 1st inning P1
Taj Bradley pitches to Carter Jensen P1
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P1
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P1
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P1
Jensen struck out swinging. P1
P1
Taj Bradley pitches to Lane Thomas P1
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P1
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P1
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P1
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P1
Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P1
Thomas struck out swinging. P1
P1
Taj Bradley pitches to Jac Caglianone P1
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P1
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P1
Caglianone lined out to left. P1
P1
Middle of the 1st inning P1
Bottom of the 1st inning P1
Seth Lugo pitches to Trevor Larnach P1
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P1
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P1
Larnach grounded out to first. P1
P1
Seth Lugo pitches to Byron Buxton P1
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P1
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P1
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P1
Buxton safe at first on throwing error by pitcher Lugo. P1
P1
Seth Lugo pitches to Ryan Jeffers P1
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P1
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P1
Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P1
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Looking P1
Pitch 6 : Ball 4 P1
Jeffers walked, Buxton to second. P1
P1
Seth Lugo pitches to Kody Clemens P1
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P1
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P1
Clemens grounded into double play, first to shortstop to pitcher, Jeffers out at second. P1
P1
End of the 1st inning P1
Top of the 2nd inning P2
Taj Bradley pitches to Salvador Perez P2
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P2
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P2
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P2
Perez singled to center. P2
P2
Taj Bradley pitches to Vinnie Pasquantino P2
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P2
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P2
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P2
Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P2
Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P2
Pasquantino lined out to left. P2
P2
Taj Bradley pitches to Nick Loftin P2
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P2
Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P2
Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P2
Pitch 5 : Ball 4 P2
Loftin walked, Perez to second. P2
P2
Taj Bradley pitches to Michael Massey P2
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P2
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P2
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P2
Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P2
Massey struck out swinging. P2
P2
Taj Bradley pitches to Isaac Collins P2
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P2
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Looking P2
Collins struck out looking. P2
P2
Middle of the 2nd inning P2
Bottom of the 2nd inning P2
Seth Lugo pitches to Josh Bell P2
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P2
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Looking P2
Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P2
Bell struck out swinging. P2
P2
Seth Lugo pitches to Victor Caratini P2
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P2
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P2
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Looking P2
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P2
Caratini singled to center. P2
P2
Seth Lugo pitches to Luke Keaschall P2
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P2
Keaschall grounded into double play, shortstop to second to first, Caratini out at second. P2
P2
End of the 2nd inning P2
Top of the 3rd inning P3
Taj Bradley pitches to Josh Rojas P3
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P3
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P3
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P3
Rojas grounded out to second. P3
P3
Taj Bradley pitches to Carter Jensen P3
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P3
Jensen grounded out to second. P3
P3
Taj Bradley pitches to Lane Thomas P3
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P3
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P3
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P3
Thomas struck out swinging. P3
P3
Middle of the 3rd inning P3
Bottom of the 3rd inning P3
Seth Lugo pitches to Brooks Lee P3
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P3
Lee flied out to center. P3
P3
Seth Lugo pitches to Ryan Kreidler P3
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P3
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P3
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Looking P3
Kreidler struck out looking. Kansas City Royals challenged: call on the field was overturned. P3
P3
Seth Lugo pitches to Trevor Larnach P3
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P3
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P3
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P3
Pitch 6 : Ball 3 P3
Pitch 7 : Strike 2 Foul P3
Pitch 8 : Ball 4 P3
Larnach walked. Kansas City Royals challenged: call on the field was upheld. P3
P3
Seth Lugo pitches to Byron Buxton P3
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P3
Buxton grounded into fielder's choice to shortstop, Larnach out at second. P3
P3
End of the 3rd inning P3
Top of the 4th inning P4
Taj Bradley pitches to Jac Caglianone P4
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P4
Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P4
Pitch 5 : Ball 4 P4
Caglianone walked. Kansas City Royals challenged: call on the field was overturned. P4
P4
Taj Bradley pitches to Salvador Perez P4
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P4
Perez grounded into double play, third to second to first, Caglianone out at second. P4
P4
Taj Bradley pitches to Vinnie Pasquantino P4
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P4
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P4
Pasquantino grounded out to first. P4
P4
Middle of the 4th inning P4
Bottom of the 4th inning P4
Seth Lugo pitches to Ryan Jeffers P4
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P4
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P4
Jeffers flied out to right. P4
P4
Seth Lugo pitches to Kody Clemens P4
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P4
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P4
Clemens doubled to right. P4
P4
Seth Lugo pitches to Josh Bell P4
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P4
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P4
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P4
Bell singled to center, Clemens scored. P4
P4
Seth Lugo pitches to Victor Caratini P4
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P4
Caratini lined out to left. P4
P4
Seth Lugo pitches to Luke Keaschall P4
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P4
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P4
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P4
Keaschall singled to center, Bell to second. P4
P4
Seth Lugo pitches to Brooks Lee P4
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P4
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P4
Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P4
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P4
Lee flied out to right. P4
P4
End of the 4th inning P4
Top of the 5th inning P5
Roden in right field. P5
Keaschall in center field. P5
Taj Bradley pitches to Nick Loftin P5
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P5
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P5
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P5
Loftin grounded out to second. P5
P5
Taj Bradley pitches to Michael Massey P5
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P5
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P5
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P5
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P5
Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P5
Massey struck out swinging. P5
P5
Taj Bradley pitches to Isaac Collins P5
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P5
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P5
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P5
Collins struck out swinging. P5
P5
Middle of the 5th inning P5
Bottom of the 5th inning P5
Seth Lugo pitches to Ryan Kreidler P5
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P5
Kreidler reached on bunt single to third. P5
P5
Seth Lugo pitches to Trevor Larnach P5
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P5
Pitch 3 : Ball 3 P5
Pitch 4 : Strike 1 Looking P5
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P5
Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P5
Larnach fouled out to third. P5
P5
Seth Lugo pitches to Alan Roden P5
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P5
Roden grounded into double play, third to shortstop to first, Kreidler out at second. P5
P5
End of the 5th inning P5
Top of the 6th inning P6
Taj Bradley pitches to Josh Rojas P6
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P6
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P6
Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P6
Pitch 5 : Ball 4 P6
Rojas walked. P6
P6
Taj Bradley pitches to Carter Jensen P6
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P6
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P6
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P6
Pitch 4 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 5 : Ball 2 P6
Pitch 6 : Ball 3 P6
Pitch 7 : Strike 2 Foul P6
Pitch 8 : Strike 3 Looking P6
Jensen struck out looking. Minnesota Twins challenged: call on the field was overturned. P6
P6
Taj Bradley pitches to Lane Thomas P6
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P6
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P6
Thomas singled to right, Rojas to third. P6
P6
Taj Bradley pitches to Jac Caglianone P6
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P6
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P6
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P6
Rojas stole home, Thomas stole second. P6
Rojas stole home, Thomas stole second. P6
Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P6
Caglianone struck out swinging. P6
P6
Taj Bradley pitches to Salvador Perez P6
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P6
Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Swinging P6
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Swinging P6
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P6
Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P6
Perez singled to right, Thomas scored. P6
P6
Taj Bradley pitches to Vinnie Pasquantino P6
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P6
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P6
Pitch 5 : Ball 2 P6
Pitch 6 : Ball 3 P6
Pitch 7 : Strike 3 Looking P6
Pasquantino struck out looking. P6
P6
Middle of the 6th inning P6
Bottom of the 6th inning P6
Seth Lugo pitches to Ryan Jeffers P6
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P6
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P6
Jeffers lined out to center. P6
P6
Seth Lugo pitches to Kody Clemens P6
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P6
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P6
Clemens hit by pitch. P6
P6
Seth Lugo pitches to Josh Bell P6
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P6
Bell singled to center, Clemens to third. P6
P6
Seth Lugo pitches to Victor Caratini P6
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P6
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P6
Caratini grounded into double play, first to shortstop to first, Bell out at second. P6
P6
End of the 6th inning P6
Top of the 7th inning P7
Funderburk relieved Bradley P7
Kody Funderburk pitches to Nick Loftin P7
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P7
Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P7
Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P7
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P7
Pitch 6 : Ball 4 P7
Loftin walked. P7
P7
Kody Funderburk pitches to Michael Massey P7
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Bunted Foul P7
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Bunted Foul P7
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P7
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P7
Massey grounded out to second, Loftin to second. P7
P7
Kody Funderburk pitches to Isaac Collins P7
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P7
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P7
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P7
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P7
Collins flied out to second. P7
P7
Marte hit for Rojas P7
Kody Funderburk pitches to Starling Marte 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 : Ball In Play P7
Marte grounded out to first. P7
P7
Middle of the 7th inning P7
Bottom of the 7th inning P7
Velazquez at shortstop. P7
Lynch IV relieved Lugo P7
Daniel Lynch IV pitches to Luke Keaschall P7
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P7
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P7
Keaschall grounded out to third. P7
P7
Daniel Lynch IV pitches to Brooks Lee P7
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P7
Lee doubled to left. P7
P7
Daniel Lynch IV pitches to Ryan Kreidler P7
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P7
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P7
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P7
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P7
Kreidler grounded out to shortstop. P7
P7
Lewis hit for Larnach P7
Schreiber relieved Lynch IV P7
John Schreiber pitches to Royce Lewis P7
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P7
Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Swinging P7
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P7
Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P7
Pitch 6 : Ball 4 P7
Lewis walked. P7
P7
John Schreiber pitches to Alan Roden P7
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P7
Roden lined out to left. P7
P7
End of the 7th inning P7
Top of the 8th inning P8
Lewis at second base. P8
Clemens in left field. P8
Kody Funderburk pitches to Carter Jensen P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P8
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P8
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P8
Jensen struck out swinging. P8
P8
Adams relieved Funderburk P8
Travis Adams pitches to Lane Thomas P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P8
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P8
Thomas struck out swinging. P8
P8
Travis Adams pitches to Jac Caglianone P8
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P8
Pitch 3 : Ball 3 P8
Pitch 4 : Ball 4 P8
Caglianone walked. P8
P8
Travis Adams pitches to Salvador Perez P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P8
Perez flied out to left. P8
P8
Middle of the 8th inning P8
Bottom of the 8th inning P8
Cruz relieved Schreiber P8
Steven Cruz pitches to Ryan Jeffers P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P8
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P8
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P8
Pitch 6 : Ball 3 P8
Pitch 7 : Ball In Play P8
Jeffers singled to left. P8
P8
Martin ran for Jeffers P8
Steven Cruz pitches to Kody Clemens P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P8
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P8
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P8
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P8
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P8
Clemens grounded into double play, first to shortstop to first, Martin out at second. P8
P8
Steven Cruz pitches to Josh Bell P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P8
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P8
Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P8
Bell struck out swinging. P8
P8
End of the 8th inning P8
Top of the 9th inning P9
Jackson catching. P9
Tolbert hit for Pasquantino P9
Middle of the 9th inning P9
Bottom of the 9th inning P9
Caglianone at first base. P9
Tolbert in right field. P9
Lange relieved Cruz P9
Alex Lange pitches to Victor Caratini P9
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P9
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P9
Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P9
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P9
Caratini singled to right. P9
P9
Alex Lange pitches to Luke Keaschall P9
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P9
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P9
Keaschall lined out to left. P9
P9
Alex Lange pitches to Brooks Lee P9
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P9
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P9
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P9
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P9
Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P9
Pitch 6 : Ball 4 P9
Lee walked, Caratini to second. P9
P9
Alex Lange pitches to Ryan Kreidler P9
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P9
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P9
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P9
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P9
Pitch 5 : Ball 2 P9
Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P9
Kreidler struck out swinging. P9
P9
Alex Lange pitches to Royce Lewis P9
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P9
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P9
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P9
Lewis tripled to right, Caratini scored and Lee scored. P9
P9