The 28-year-old southpaw punched out four batters on the night while issuing one walk. The lone blemish on his night came on a solo homer off the bat of Tyler Stephenson in the second inning. Lynch got six swings and misses on 42 pitches on the night, posting a CSW of 29 percent. He has been terrific for the Royals this season, registering a 1.75 ERA, 1.29 WHIP and a 16/13 K/BB ratio over 25 2/3 innings in his first 23 appearances.

Lynch was brought into a tie game in the ninth and then replaced after throwing 21 pitches to get one out. Steven Cruz went on to surrender a walkoff single afterwards. With a 1.57 ERA in 23 innings, Lynch has been a very valuable member of the Royals pen to date. However, that the ERA comes with a 12/12 K/BB doesn’t seem to bode very well.

This will amount to a bullpen game for the Royals with both Seth Lugo (finger) and Cole Ragans (groin) on the injured list. Lynch has been good this season, but he hasn’t pitched a full inning of relief since May 9th and hasn’t pitched two innings or more since May 3rd, so it’s highly unlikely he gives the Royals more than two innings on Wednesday.

After the Royals scratched out a run to take a lead in the home half of the eighth inning, John Schreiber stuck around to get the first two outs of the ninth. Lynch was then brought on to face Edouard Julien and he needed just two pitches to get him to ground out to shortstop to end the ballgame. While he’s probably fourth in line for save chances behind Carlos Estevez, Lucas Erceg and Hunter Harvey, Lynch has shown that he’s capable of handling the occasional opportunity that comes his way as well.