The Astros quickly quieted a raucous Kansas City crowd by scoring two runs in the 1st inning, both coming on RBI groundouts from Colby Rasmus and Evan Gattis respectively.

A 49-minute no-dome delay prompted Kansas City manager Ned Yost to pull starter Yordano Ventura from the game, while Houston stuck with Collin McHugh who would only surrender another shot from Morales in the 4th in six innings.

The Astros bullpen would shut out Kansas City from there while George Springer and Rasmus would add shots to provide Houston with all the insurance runs they would need to steal home field advantage from the Royals in taking a 1–0 series lead.

With the Astros threatening to take a 2–0 series lead back to Houston, where the Royals would have to face eventual AL Cy Young winner Dallas Keuchel, Lorenzo Cain got a rally started with a double.

That was all the vaunted Royals bullpen needed as Ryan Madson and Wade Davis pitched scoreless 8th and 9th innings respectively to even the series.

Closer Luke Gregerson surrendered a home run to Alex Gordon in the 9th, but he closed out the Royals from there to put the Astros one win away from advancing to the 2015 ALCS.

The ball took two more hops and got past the top of Carlos Correa's mitt, rolling into center field as two runs scored to tie it at six.

This marked the second time in franchise history that Kansas City had rallied from a four-run deficit after seven innings to win a postseason game.

Center fielder Carlos Gómez slipped onto his backside when he fielded the ball, which allowed Cain to go all the way home to make it a 2–1 game.

The next batter, Alex Gordon hit a ball to deep right-center field, which bounced into the stands for a ground rule double to put runners on 2nd and 3rd.

On a 1-1 pitch, Rios hit the ball down the left-field line that got by the third baseman for a double to score both runners and give Kansas City a 3–2 lead.

Ben Zobrist then hit a ball to right-center field, which was enough to get Rios home with a sacrifice fly to give the Royals a 4–2 lead.

Dallas Keuchel was brought in for a relief appearance on just two days of rest in the 8th inning and quickly surrendered a double to Escobar down the right-field line.

Wade Davis pitched a perfect ninth with Paulo Orlando making the final out with a catch against the wall to send the Royals to back-to-back ALCS appearances for the first time since the 1984 and 1985 teams did so.

[23] 2015 ALDS (3–2): Kansas City Royals beat Houston Astros David Price took the mound in search of his first playoff win as a starter, and coming into the game he was 0–3 lifetime against the Texas Rangers in the postseason.

Opposing him was Yovani Gallardo, who provided the Rangers with their only two victories against Toronto in the regular season, and had been one of the few starters in the majors who had been able to shut down the Blue Jays' bats.

In the top of the second, Rougned Odor drew a leadoff walk, moved to third on a groundout and scored on Hanser Alberto's sacrifice fly.

In the fifth, Pillar hit a leadoff double, moved to third on a sacrifice bunt, and scored on Ben Revere's single to give the Blue Jays the lead.

Brett Cecil relieved Stroman and allowed a sacrifice bunt, then a strikeout before Mike Napoli's pinch-hit RBI single tied the game, which went into extra innings.

Ross Ohlendorf pitched a scoreless bottom of the inning for the save as the Rangers took a 2–0 series lead heading to Arlington.

The next batter in the inning, Tulowitzki, worked Gonzalez to a full count and then on the sixth pitch drilled a three-run home run that broke the game open.

The Rangers only threatened in the seventh inning, and Estrada was pulled after back-to-back hits by Elvis Andrus and Josh Hamilton with one out.

A fly ball by Troy Tulowitzki was the second out, Russell Martin walked and Pillar struck an RBI single to score Colabello and make it 7−0 after three innings.

[27] An RBI single by Prince Fielder in the first and a homer by Shin-Soo Choo in the third gave the Rangers an early lead over Marcus Stroman and the Jays.

The Jays fought back to tie it with an RBI double by José Bautista in the third and a home run by Edwin Encarnación in the sixth.

Rangers manager Jeff Banister came out to argue and after a discussion, the umpires awarded the run to Texas, citing rule 6.03a – that Choo was not intentionally interfering with the throw back to the pitcher.

During this time, a video review from the umpires was on confirming with a rules check, and Blue Jays manager John Gibbons announced he was playing the game under protest.

After Rangers sinkerballer Sam Dyson relieved Cole Hamels, Josh Donaldson hit a ball just over the glove of Rougned Odor.

He would flip his bat before running the bases, an action widely applauded by Blue Jays fans and several media outlets but considered unsportsmanlike by some observers.