After a wildly disappointing series with the A’s, the Royals look to get back on track against a familiar foe, the Chicago White Sox. If you look at your pocket schedule, you’ll note that this was supposed to be a three-game series, but some crazy rain in late May has turned this into a four-game […]
Author: David Lesky
Friday Notes
Have you ever had a car that you kept a really long time? Eventually, things start to break down. You fix one thing and it runs a little while longer and then you fix another thing and runs a little while longer. Eventually, that’s it. It doesn’t matter what you do. The car is just […]
Looking on the Bright Side
With the Royals most recent loss to the A’s, their record for the season fell to 74-71. That’s a perfectly fine record for a perfectly fine team, but at five games out of the second wild card spot with just 17 games to play, the hopes for a third straight trip to the postseason have […]
Soria’s Slider Sabotaged His Season
Ask most Royals fans what’s wrong with Joakim Soria and they’ll tell you that he’s not very good. Some will put it a bit less kindly than that, but that’s the consensus. And they’re right. In 2016, he hasn’t been very good. Sure, there have been stretches. He had a 2.15 ERA from April 29 […]
Series Preview: Royals vs. Oakland A’s, September 12-15
As is often the case with the A’s, their team looks very different in September than it did in April when the Royals last faced them. They’ve dealt more than 20 percent of their Opening Day roster in addition to losing many others to injuries, so they’re currently playing out the string and working to […]
Series Preview: Royals at Chicago White Sox, September 9-11
The Royals try to shake off a very tough loss to end their series with the Twins as they head to the south side to take on the Chicago White Sox in a three-game weekend set. While the White Sox don’t have a record as bad as the Twins, at times they’ve looked as bad […]
Friday Notes
What a gut wrenching way to end a series and head into an off day, huh? It sure feels like there’s been a lot of those lately, and it’s mostly because there have been. The Royals have gone 5-5 in their last 10 with literally every single one of the five losses winnable games. That’s […]
Lorenzo Cain: Most Valuable Royal
You’re going to see a lot of columns in the near future about who should be the Most Valuable Player. Most of those will be talking about league awards, but here and there, you’ll see things about team awards. This is one of those articles about the team award, but I wanted to take a […]
Series Preview: Royals at Minnesota Twins, September 5-7
With their playoff hopes growing dimmer by the day, the Royals have an opportunity to get back into things over the next couple weeks. Beginning with this series, they play 14 consecutive games against three bad teams. The first of those bad teams is the Minnesota Twins. We all know the story after having seen them […]
Series Preview: Royals vs. Detroit Tigers, September 2-4
After a disappointing start to the home stand, the Royals try to get back on the winning track against the team they’re now chasing in the Wild Card race (and the division), the Detroit Tigers. This is the biggest series of the year. And yes, that’ll be true of the next series unless the Royals […]