Kris Bubic’s no-hit bid for the Kansas City Royals ended with an official scoring change Monday night in San Francisco.

The left-hander hardly let that bother him before settling for seven shutout innings of two-hit ball in a 3-1 victory over the Giants.

Bubic initially got through six innings without allowing a hit — only to have an error charged to Royals second baseman Michael Massey changed to a single before the start of the seventh.

With two outs in the sixth, Wilmer Flores hit a grounder toward second base. Massey moved to his left and was in position to make the play but slipped to the ground at the edge of the grass as the ball rolled past him into the outfield.

The play was initially ruled an error by official scorer Michael Duca. Bubic then struck out Jung Hoo Lee to end the inning.

Moments later, after reviewing video, Duca changed his call to a base hit for Flores.

Casey Schmitt’s double down the left-field line with one out in the seventh was the only other hit off Bubic (5-2), who lowered his ERA to 1.47. In his past four starts, Bubic has permitted one run over 25 1/3 innings.

TROUT UPDATE

Angels outfielder Mike Trout did some light jogging on the field on Monday afternoon, the first time he’d advanced to that step in his rehab from a bruised left knee.

“That’s a huge step,” Angels manager Ron Washington said. “That was just about as minimal as you can get. Each time that he goes out, they’re going to ramp it up, so we’ll see where it goes. Right now he came out of it in good shape.”

The three-time MVP has been hitting off a machine, throwing and doing agility drills.

— Jeff Fletcher

CHECKED SWING TEST

Major League Baseball began an experiment with a technology system to challenge checked swing calls in the Class A Florida State League that started Tuesday.

Using a Hawk-Eye system, a checked swing call can be challenged by either the team at bat or on defense.

The decision will be made based on whether the bat head is ahead of the knob by more than 45 degrees — matching the first-base line for a right-handed hitter and the third-base line for a left-handed hitter. Short of 45 degrees will be called a no swing.

A team will be allowed to make a challenge until it has one unsuccessful challenge. A video of the Hawk-Eye determination of the maximum bat angle will be shown on the ballpark video board.

The team on defense can still ask the plate umpire to check a non-swing call with the base umpires without using a challenge.

MLB experimented with an Automated Ball-Strike System using the Hawk-Eye system during 288 spring training games this year. Teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges. Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said regular-season use in 2026 is possible but not definite.

AROUND THE MAJORS

Brandon Pfaadt became the first seven-game winner in the majors as the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Dodgers 9-5 on Monday night.

Pfaadt (7-3) was perfect through three innings until Mookie Betts’ homer with one out in the fourth. The right-hander allowed back-to-back solo shots by Shohei Ohtani and Betts in the sixth, leaving the Dodgers trailing 7-3.

Cincinnati left-hander Nick Lodolo (4-4) allowed one run and four hits in six innings of the Reds’ 7-1 win over the Pirates on Monday night in Pittsburgh. Lodolo, a Damien High grad, struck out seven and walked one. Kyle Schwarber hit his 300th career home run, a 466-foot shot off the facing of the third deck, and the Philadelphia Phillies rallied past the struggling Colorado Rockies 9-3 on Monday night.

The Rockies fell to 8-39 — the worst 47-game start in the modern era that dates to 1901.

Rain in Minneapolis on Tuesday again forced the Cleveland Guardians and Twins to rework their series in hopes of playing a doubleheader today.