The Royals played a game on Tuesday night. It was, I have to say, it was a beautiful game. Wonderful, really. Walkoff. Those are so nice. So nice. Just a lot of fun, walkoffs. This game was played in the nicest, best stadium in the league. There have been many polls that have rated The […]
Author: Craig Brown
Searching For Perspective
Despite taking two of three from the Tigers in Detroit, the Royals return home this week just a single game away from elimination from the second Wild Card. This merely will make official what we have known for some time. We’ve declared this team out of the race several times on this website. But the […]
RECAP: Royals 2, Indians 5; Goodbye, Cleveland And Good Riddance
The Royals played 10 games in Cleveland this year. They won once. They were blown out, walked off, shut out, and everything in between. If there was a mercy rule on baseball road trips to a particular city, it would have been invoked back in June. Alas, the game has not become so enlightened. The […]
RECAP: Royals 3, Indians 4; Eliminated
This was an elimination game for the Royals. I know, I know. The Central hasn’t been in play since mid-June. Yes, June. As wretched as July was, the Royals gave up five and a half games in the standings from June 21 to June 28, a period where they went from a half game behind […]
RECAP: Royals 5, Athletics 14; The End
On September 30, 2014, against the Oakland A’s, Salvador Perez smashed a ball down the third base line and sent Kansas City into a frenzy. The frenzy lasted close to two years, brought two AL pennants and one World Championship and countless indelible moments to our beloved franchise. On September 15, 2016, against the Oakland A’s, the […]
RECAP: Royals 0, Athletics 8; With A Whimper
Welcome to the existential Royals recap. Where we ask the questions: Do these games matter? Why are we playing them? Why are we here? Can we bring our dogs? Speaking of dogs, it was Bark At The Park night at Kauffman. Fitting. The Royals played like dog crap. The hard truth was learned last night. […]
RECAP: Royals 4, Athletics 5; Soria’d
This game will serve as the epitaph of the Royals 2016 season. At this point, with the Royals on the periphery of the Wild Card chase, all games are huge. It’s truly impossible to understate the importance of each of the 19 remaining games. That’s why, try as I might, it is impossible to comprehend […]
Royals Condition: Critical
We’re roughly midway through the latest critical stretch of the Royals 2016 season. This was determined to be critical due to the fact the Royals have, as you are well aware, scuffled to get back into position for postseason play. It was also determined to be critical because the teams on the schedule – the […]
RECAP: Royals 3, Athletics 16; Bloodletting
Where to begin? And why would we even want to? With games dwindling and the Wild Card chase remaining a cluster, the Royals can’t afford to lose many more games. It doesn’t matter if they fall by one run or get curb stomped like they did on Monday night, a loss is a loss is […]
RECAP: Royals 5, Twins 6; Gut Punched
The news rolled in throughout the afternoon. The Baltimore Orioles lost. Then the Tigers went down in the ninth. This was a rare opportunity for the Royals to pick up a whole game on two (or more) teams positioned in front of them in the Wild Card race. Before the first pitch was thrown in […]