You have to admire the commitment. Apropos of more or less nothing, the Twins and Royals sat around until the wee small hours of Saturday morning, enduring two rain delays and fighting apathy to finish a 6-4 contest in front of dozens of fans in Minneapolis. Why? I don’t know. This game was official when […]
Author: Colby Wilson
RECAP: Two Jasons, One Blown Lead
Cannons. This game featured lots of cannons. Brett Phillips. Salvador Perez. Brad Keller humming darts. Leather. Also a considerable amount of leather, from Phillips and Adalberto Mondesi. And there was plenty of was bad bullpen work by the Royals in a 6-3 loss in the finale on the South Side. As one of the wickedly […]
RECAP: Royal beating administered in Chicago
Dannnnnnng y’all. The White Sox are really bad now. I’m not saying this as a good development, although the Royals won a game (and the series!) by defeating the White Sox 10-5. But for the grander scheme—bottoming out, securing draft position, the hallmarks of rebuilding baseball teams—it’s a bad development. The Royals have six more […]
RECAP: Royals split a doubleheader in the Bronx
The Royals and Yankees played two Saturday, and so did we here at BPKC. That allowed me to kill two birds with one stone and give the people what they really want: the first look at a post-Moustakas world in Kansas City. Game One It’s weird how sometimes you lose an integral part of the […]
They’re all gone
Everybody’s gone now. After Mike Moustakas joined forces with Lorenzo Cain in Milwaukee, the 2015 cupboard has officially been cleaned. Eric Hosmer is underperforming in San Diego. HDH is scattered to the four winds. RIP Yo. A whole eight players from the 2015 title team remain in the organization, and that’s counting Terrance Gore (he […]
RECAP: BERTO boots two in series opener
Well I hope everybody is excited for more Alcides Escobar, because he just signed a two-year extension. I expect to see that announcement Friday after Adalberto Mondesi, a young and talented shortstop, made two errors in the series opener against the Yankees. That’s not the sort of performance you can afford to have when you’re […]
RECAP: A sad end to a decent homestand
By the time the Royals return to Kansas City, the team could look significantly different. By August 6, the trade deadline will be ancient news. Any (or all!) of Mike Moustakas, Whit Merrifield, Danny Duffy, Lucas Duda and others could be suiting up in different uniforms. Half of Omaha could be in Kansas City by […]
Could the rest of the AL Central beat the Indians?
Outside of the Cleveland Indians, the American League Central sucks. I’m sorry if this is how you found out. It’s rather historic, in many respects. The Indians are the only team above .500 and it’s not particularly close. The Twins are clearly the second-best team, only they’re doing it without Byron Buxton and Miguel Sano, […]
RECAP: We have been forsaken
Christ. I had some real nice stuff here about the Royals making some progress and starting the second half with some fire and vigor and the appearance that they’d like to be a semi-respectable baseball team again and for eight innings, that looked to be the case. Eleven pitches into Brandon Maurer’s relief effort and […]
RECAP: Break up the Royals
The difference between a game like what we get to observe when the Royals and non-Cleveland American League Central opponents get together and when Kansas City tries (and usually fails) to go toe-to-toe with the Tribe is that there is some actual fun to be had. Oh, I’ll grant you that Cleveland’s run as (ironically?) […]