The Kansas City Royals hit the road for the first time in 2016 and head to Houston, the site of maybe their most stirring comeback of the 2015 postseason. You may recall that the Royals were down by four runs heading into the eighth inning of ALDS game four. You may also recall they won that […]
Author: David Lesky
Friday Notes
The season is less than a week old (and only two games), and already we’ve seen more Royals coverage than I believe the team received from 1998-2012. Some of the coverage hasn’t exactly been kind or grounded in fact, but there’s certainly been coverage. I guess there’s no such thing as bad publicity, right? It’ll […]
Series Preview: Royals vs. Minnesota Twins, April 8-10
After an odd beginning to the season, the Kansas City Royals get to play baseball the way the game was meant to be played, often. They welcome one of their division foes, the Minnesota Twins to town for a three-game series. Last season, the Twins provided the Royals with their biggest challenge in the AL […]
Royals Still Lack Success in Developing Starting Pitching
Pitching is the currency of baseball. How many times have we heard that or some similar variation from Dayton Moore and his staff since he became the general manager? Don’t answer that. If you’ve kept count, I’m concerned for you. From 2013 to 2015, the Royals ranked first, fourth and third, in that order, in […]
Pomp and Circumstance Over, Grind Begins Friday
The start to the season for the Kansas City Royals was not one that is typical for any big league team. Ignore the odd off days for a minute (we’ll get to those). Just think about all that has happened before the games. We saw tribute videos for them and their opponents. We saw a flag being […]
Royals Raise Flag, Draw Tears, Win Game
As I drove up to the stadium around 3:00 yesterday, it felt like a continuation of the 2015 season. Sure it had been more than five months since the last Royals home game, but it just felt right. And before I knew it, I was annoyed with the parking attendants who were telling me exactly […]
Series Preview: Royals vs. New York Mets, April 3-5
Something seems so familiar about this matchup. Oh, right. These two teams met to play for the world championship of baseball last October (and November), and for those scoring at home, the Kansas City Royals took home the title by beating the Mets in four times out of five. For those who are wondering and […]
Friday Notes
I like to use various editions of Friday Notes as landmarks throughout the year. And this edition is one of my favorites because it’s the last one before the regular season begins. It’s always a joy to write about the upcoming spring and then to write about what happened in a random week in June, […]
What’s In A Number?
By now you may have noticed that the Kansas City Royals haven’t exactly gotten stellar starting pitching during spring training. Say what you want about spring training statistics not mattering (and they don’t), but there’s something comforting in seeing your team perform well in the spring. Yes, the Royals record is still 0-0 and their […]
Targets on Their Backs
Remember last year when it felt like there was a target on the Royals collective backs throughout the season? It sort of made sense. They had just gone to the World Series and were young and thought of as brash by some. It felt like every series, the opposing team had something to prove. It started […]