The Royals’ offense came alive on Friday night against none other than Chris Sale. Sadly, Ian Kennedy crashed and burned. You have already written this in your head, haven’t you? A team that could not score against anyone, hits three home runs against one of the best lefties in the game. They cuff Sale around […]
Day: June 10, 2016
The Rock and The Hard Place
Hello friends, welcome to the island of despair. All the hard work and, to be fair, all the good fortune that propelled the Kansas City Royals into first place had all been paid back with interest with a 0-7 start to the current road trip. As Craig pointed out, the Royals are not scoring and […]
Series Preview: Royals at Chicago White Sox, June 10-12
Maybe the Royals are trying to use their ice cold bats to cool off Kansas City, which is suddenly quite warm. If we choose to think about their struggles that way, we realize that the struggles are for the greater good. Of course, the greater good doesn’t help the Royals win a division. Beating division […]
Royals Add the Next Wave
The MLB Draft took place Thursday evening with teams making 66 selections before the defending World Champions had a swing at the plate. With so many selections taking place in front of the Royals combined by the champions lack of available spending in their pool ($3.2M), it was highly unlikely for them to make a big splash […]
Friday Notes
Woof. That’s how I’d describe the last week of Royals baseball. Since we last spoke on Friday Notes, the Royals have scored four more runs than I have. You may not know this, but I am not a big league baseball player, so that’s pretty bad. They have, of course, lost all six of those games […]
Diamonds in the Rough 6-9-16
A 2-3 day for the Kansas City Royals minor league affiliates. HR Roll Call Chad Johnson (1), Mike Hill (3) BP KC Hitter of the Day – Alfredo Escalera 2-5 2b, R, 2 RBI BP KC Pitcher of the Day – Jake Junis 6 IP 3 H 1 ER 1 BB 4 K 7-5 GO-FO […]