It was a remarkably quick game as both teams combined for only 10 runners total. The Royals evened the season series and took the weekend series with a 3-1 victory over one of the teams that bedeviled them so much earlier in the season.

Watching this game, you might not have realized just how well Michael Wacha was pitching. It wasn’t ever close to being a no-hitter; he wasn’t striking out everyone he saw. But when he left the mound after the top of the seventh, he had struck out 6 and allowed only 4 baserunners and 1 run all night. The lone run came on a blast from Hao-Yu Lee in the top of the fifth. That was one of only three times in the…

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