IMPACT PLAYER: Salvador Perez, Kansas City
The Home Run Derby participant hit his 28th career home run vs. the Twins in the second inning and scored the go-ahead run in the third.
BY THE NUMBERS
9 Career homers at home vs. the Twins by Perez, who has 19 more in Target Field.
1 Career victories by Richard Lovelady, who earned it in his 28th career game.
2 Wild pitches thrown in the eighth inning by Taylor Rogers, resulting in a Royals insurance run.
ON DECK
Griffin Jax will make his first career start Saturday, hoping to end the Twins' losing streak. He faces lefthander Danny Duffy, who has a 9-3 lifetime record vs. the Twins.
