We kind of knew that Danny Duffy was going to be at least passable, given that he has been good for several years and is still more than capable of sterling performances. And Jakob Junis showed enough flashes late last year that his early-season success hasn’t come as a total shock. But Brad Keller? Now […]
Author: Colby Wilson
RECAP: Frankie Montas owns the Royals
I’m not sure what the Royals did to anger Frankie Montas, and I’m not sure how to rectify it. Should they go for a team-wide exorcism? Sacrifice an animal? Find a pagan god of some kind and ask his favor? Whatever it is, the Royals need to do it ASAP before they see Montas again. […]
RECAP: The phenom leaves early, but the Royals lose anyway
If the Royals broke Shohei Ohtani, I’m gonna be mad. There’s no real modern-day precedent for Ohtani, the young Japanese dual-threat who likely cost himself armfuls of money by coming over as an international amateur rather than waiting a couple of years, when he could’ve secured a contract akin to an armored car backing up […]
RECAP: Andrew Heaney threw a one-hitter
Here’s what makes me think Brad Keller might wind up being alright: It’s the fourth inning of Tuesday’s game against Anaheim. Keller had been cruising along all night, but back-to-back singles by Mike Trout and Justin Upton suddenly had the Angels in business against a guy making his second career big league start. So what […]
RECAP: Here’s to the future!
On the same night the Kansas City Royals front office was drafting the team of the future (a future which appears to have little need for bats), the 2018 version was some 1,300 miles west of 1 Royals Way to take on the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and Surrounding Municipalities Including But Not Limited […]
RECAP: Hip-Hip! Jorge’s blast lifts Royals late
By virtue of not surrendering seven runs in an inning even once, let alone twice, in Saturday’s matinee, the Kansas City Royals were already in higher cotton than they were after Friday’s game. Being able to fend off the A’s and even the series at one game apiece was just a sweetener. Despite tying the […]
RECAP: Good God Almighty, what was that?
Last year, one of my first acts at my previous site was watching the early-season Royals-A’s contest. Jharel Cotton tossed the finest game of his career; it was brought up roughly 173 times that he was one of the players acquired from the Dodgers for Rich Hill and Josh Reddick in one of the real […]
RECAP: It’s never easy, even in victory
This was supposed to be so easy. The Royals jumped to a nine-run lead. Nine runs. Nine. In two innings! And it (almost) didn’t matter. Last night’s 14-inning affair was as thrilling a moment as the Royals have provided all season. Surrendering a nine-run lead a day later would not have fit into the plan […]
RECAP: Jon Jay was good!
A lot of people celebrate Memorial Day (or as it’s known in the Deep South, the Official Start of Grilling, Drinking and Wearing American Flags Somewhere On Your Person Day) with a baseball game. I am not some people; I celebrated it with two. First, there were my hometown Nashville Sounds, who had a 12:05 […]
RECAP: Bartolo Colon is awesome. Also, the Royals played
One can’t bag on the Royals not taking a 45-year old best described as ‘rotund’ straight to the woodshed because as presently constructed, Bartolo Colon would be the Royals No. 2 starter. One can bag on the Royals for other reasons, like staking a three-run lead, putting men on in crucial spots late and not […]