A perfectly placed ricochet off second base created this Alex Gordon RBI single

When you're hot, you're hot. The Royals are most definitely hot, having won 10 games in a row and capturing a 1 1/2-game lead in the AL Central. And when you're hot, this kind of thing happens for you:

The play came with two outs and a runner on second; the sequence went from being a routine inning-ending grounder to an RBI single for Alex Gordon thanks to the bounce. An RBI single that, indeed, ended up being the difference in the game as Kansas City defeated Detroit by a score of 2-1.

Gordon making this catch later in the contest probably had something to do with it too: