April 15, 2017

Mike Moustakas hit a solo home run in the bottom of the 8th inning to propel the Royals to a 3-2 victory over the Angels on Saturday night at Kauffman Stadium.

It was the 5th home run of the season for Moustakas, which came off of Angel reliever Jose Alvarez, who took the loss.

The Halos fought back to tie the score at 2-2 in the 7th inning.  Ben Revere singled with two outs against Joakim Soria, which scored Cameron Maybin.

The Royals led 2-1 after after Brandon Moss took Matt Shoemaker deep to right field for a solo shot in the 4th inning.

Both teams exchanged runs in the 1st inning.  Albert Pujols had an RBI groundout for the Halos, and Eric Hosmer had a run-scoring single.

Soria got the win for the Royals, while Kelvin Herrera pitched the 9th to earn his 2nd save of the season for KC.

Matt Shoemaker went 5 1/3rd innings for the Angels.  He gave up 2 runs on 5 hits, while striking out 7.

The Halos will try to salvage a win out of the three-game set on Sunday afternoon at Kauffman Stadium.  The Angels will go with Tyler Skaggs, and the Royals will counter with Ian Kennedy.