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 […]
Author: Clark Fosler
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 […]
Sunday on the Deck
Saturday night’s game saw the early return of Salvador Perez, who Ned Yost inserted in the number five spot in the order as protection for Eric Hosmer. Give yourself a cookie if you had the free swinging Perez playing the role of protector for anyone in the pre-season, much less for Hosmer. Of course as […]
The Out of Nowhere Guys
The title might be problematical: one guy’s nowhere is another guy’s somewhere. Along those same lines, one fan’s nobody is another fan’s hidden gem. In this era, no player truly comes from out of nowhere, but perhaps we can agree that players whose rookie seasons do not take place until they are 26 years or […]
Sunday on the Deck
Of course a lineup that included Whit Merrifield, Brett Eibner, Cheslor Cuthbert and Paulo Orlando would come back from a 5-1 deficit one night and 7-1 the next afternoon. I mean, who didn’t expect that? While I tire of the bitter fans of teams who have been felled by the Royals in seasons past lamenting […]
A Long Hard Road
On this date last year, the Kansas City Royals were 28-16. Even though they were just two games ahead of Minnesota (my goodness that has been a fall, hasn’t it?), life was easy last year. With the exception of an Alex Gordon injury that occurred after the Royals had run away and hid, the team […]
Sunday on the Deck
There is a national crisis: Matt Harvey is not pitching well. Given the MLB Radio’s Inside Pitch spent almost two hours discussing Harvey yesterday morning, I cannot fathom that it is anything less than a crisis. A NATIONAL CRISIS, by the way. Okay, I’m joking. I completely understand the ‘New York’ factor, the eyes (and […]
What Exactly Is Going On Around Here?
Between games on Wednesday, the Royals promoted Whit Merrifield and demoted….Christian Colon. Raise your hand if you predicted that! And if you just raised your hand, I call bull. After all, Colon had started five of seven games on a recent road trip and gone 7 for 21 over that span. He was playing in […]
Sunday on the Deck
The Royals might win on Sunday to take two of three from the Atlanta Braves and, by and large, all of us will be disappointed. That seems crazy and I am sure that will be pointed out by the sophisticate elite on social media at some point during the day, but this was the Braves […]
Rostering Gets Weird
The Royals, as widely reported, put 40% of their starting rotation on the disabled list Wednesday night, calling up Pete Moylan and Scott Alexander to fill out spots 12 and 13 on their pitching staff. There is nothing ideal about that, even if the two starters who went down were on the verge of or […]