For most of the afternoon it looked like a game destined to be forgotten. Kansas City scratched across 2 in the 3rd and 1 more in the 5th, banging out 8 hits off Ober and the Twins bullpen, and it held up as the whole story for six innings after that.
Then the bottom of the 9th happened. Minnesota had managed just 3 hits and an error's worth of help the entire game, and turned that into a 4-run rally that flipped a 3-0 deficit into a walk-off win in the time it takes to blink. It's the kind of finish that makes a lineup missing its best center fielder look a lot more dangerous than its box score suggested all day.
Kansas City had won the series opener 4-0 just a day earlier, so this was shaping up as a series-tying statement for whichever side blinked first. Instead the Royals watched an 8-hit, 0-error effort evaporate in a single inning, while a Twins club that's had to piece things together around Buxton's hip and a rotation full of IL stints found a way to survive on fumes.