KC lost a 6-5 slugfest at Yankee Stadium. Alex Verdugo hit a go-ahead RBI single in the seventh inning as New York took a 1-0 series lead. That followed a controversial call at second base in which the Yankees’ Jazz Chisholm, who scored the winning run, was called safe sliding into second and the play stood on a review.

In the end, it was Yankees left fielder Alex Verdugo, an unlikely hero, who drove in the winning run as the Yankees topped the Royals 6-5, sending the 48,790 sellout crowd at Yankee Stadium home happy.