The affiliates had their first winning day since June 1st, going 3-1 with a 10th inning win for Lexington. HR Roll Call: Orlando Calixte (4), Humberto Arteaga (2) BP KC Hitter of the Day Orlando Calixte 2-3, 2R, HR, 3b, 2BB, SB (15), 5 RBI BP KC Pitcher of the Day Gerson Garabito 6.2 IP, […]
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Frozen
Swings and roundabouts. Baseball can be such a cruel game to follow. One week, your team is coming back from deficits in three consecutive games, dealing a division rival crushing losses in rapid succession. Then, your team follows that up with a thorough curb-stomping against good competition. Six wins in six games. You’re not necessarily […]
Royals Have Options – and Some Time – Before Turning to Trade Targets
It’s been a tough week in Kansas City. On Monday, we learned Alex Gordon was headed to the disabled list for a few weeks with a broken bone in his wrist. On Wednesday, the Royals lost to the Twins. And yesterday, Mike Moustakas went to the disabled list with a torn ACL stemming from his […]
Alex Gordon, Struggles with Fastballs and a Broken Wrist
As you know, Alex Gordon was placed on the disabled list on Monday with a fractured scaphoid. As you also know, he was struggling badly before the injury to a bone that could impact the rest of his season after he returns. But what’s going on with him? Gordon has struggled like this before. In […]
Unpacking The Alex Gordon Injury
It’s a semi-good morning in the Royals Universe. The team dodged raindrops and crushed the struggling Minnesota Twins 10-4 on Monday night. That’s good. Then there’s the little fact they had to put Alex Gordon on the disabled list with a fracture of scaphoid bone. He’s expected to miss between three to four weeks. That’s […]
RECAP: Royals 2, White Sox 3; I Wanted Everything
Absolutely. There’s still plenty of time for the Royals to makeup ground in the AL Central. Yet I can’t help but think this series is an example of why it’s exactly so difficult to make inroads against a division leading team when going head to head. On Friday, the Royals rolled into Chicago 4.5 games […]
Futility
On Thursday, April 14, the Royals beat the Houston Astros 6-4 at Minute Maid Park. It was their third consecutive win, pushing their overall record to 7-2. A great follow-up to their championship season. Over their next 16 games, they won just six, scoring a total of 43 runs. Yikes. That’s an average of 2.7 […]
Wherefore Art Thou, Offense?
Think back to late last season and the postseason and try to remember all the praise heaped upon the Royals offense. They were talked about as relentless, deep and just generally excellent. And the praise was correct. From August 1 on, they averaged 4.9 runs per game (4.7 in the regular season and 5.6 in […]
Friday Notes
After that weird first week of the season, we’ve gotten almost daily baseball for two weeks now, and that makes it feel like we’re in the thick of the baseball season. We’re still a couple weeks away from not having those wild swings in stats from game to game, so we’ll still talk about how […]
RECAP: Royals 4, Tigers 0; Let’s Go Crazy
The first Royals-Tigers tilt of the 2016 season fell in favor of the good guys. A tidy pitching performance and some timely hitting, along with a home run, powered the Royals to their 10th win of the season. U Got The Look What else can we say about Sexy Ed Volquez? The guy may not […]