It’s Friday, which means roughly three-quarters of the 18 of you who read this on Saturday morning will be doing so through the lens of the previous night’s mistakes. Speaking of mistakes, they were made against Jorge Soler and Mike Moustakas by the Texas Rangers on Friday night, but those mistakes ultimately didn’t matter in […]
Author: Colby Wilson
RECAP: Hammel makes bullpen a nonissue in victory
My favorite late-inning Royals game to play is “How will the bullpen blow it this time?” I never know how it will turn out, but it’s always an entertaining watch. Even when nothing happens—even when the bullpen does that thing they’re supposed to do where they don’t give up runs and don’t allow a lead […]
RECAP: Coming to a theatre near you!
In lieu of yet another downer recap of a Royals—(Fill in the opponent) game, I wanted to do something new. Something fresh. Something you aren’t getting from any of our competitors, something that encompasses the game but also maybe brings a bit of culture and panache to the proceedings. With that in mind, I present […]
RECAP: Please, no more
The end of “Danny Duffy, top-end starter” has arrived. The latest in a long series of less-than-good starts came Saturday night in a 9-3 loss to the New York Yankees. Again, Duffy didn’t manage to make it out of the fifth inning, the fourth time this season that’s happened. Again, he was erratic (three walks, […]
RECAP: Whit, Salvy and Junis more than enough to topple Yanks
Any day the New York Yankees lose is a good day for baseball. This particular day also featured a win for the Kansas City Royals in the series opener, making it that much sweeter. To defeat the Evil Empire typically would take a total team effort but the Royals really didn’t need much more […]
RECAP: Waste of a perfectly good Skoglund
Why ESPN put this random Royals-Rays game on national television is for the network to know and for us to merely speculate upon. It provided two highlights: Negro League Museum president Bob Kendrick hung around the broadcast for a few innings and told stories. Some of these you could get by watching Ken Burns Baseball […]
Hitting is Hard
Maybe the Royals offense is bad. It’s not hard to assume that, given what you’ve seen so far in 2018. But what if I told you it didn’t have to be that way? In fact, what if I told you the Royals were (gasp) underachieving? Actually, you’d probably believe that. But what if it could […]
RECAP: Because 10 runs in the first inning, that’s why
Sometimes you score four runs in three games against Cleveland, and sometimes you get to face Dylan Bundy. The Baseball Gods repaid the Kansas City Royals for many of the travails they suffered in April, gifting the Royals 10 runs and four homers against a clearly overmatched Bundy in a 15-7 drubbing at Camden Yards. […]
RECAP: The Force Is Strong in this one
Yes, it’s May 4. As an enormous nerd, baseball and otherwise, I am well aware of the significance. I’ll try to keep the #MayThe4thBeWithYou references to a minimum. No promises. A long time ago, at a baseball stadium not all that far away… the Royals won another baseball game! Invaders from the north assaulted Kauffman […]
RECAP: Nope, not this one either
Y’all thought this was gonna be the one. I’ll admit it, I did too. When the Kansas City Royals took that early lead, Danny Duffy was showing faint traces of old Danny Duffy and the Red Sox looked unable to cope with whatever was going on during the first three or so innings, it seemed […]