Break up the Royals, everyone. Winners of three straight and owners of their first series sweep of the season, they welcome the Detroit Tigers to town. The Tigers are sort of interesting in that they way overperformed for the first two and a half months and got to just one game under .500 after a […]
Tag: Danny Duffy
RECAP: A win! That was fun!
The thing about the return from the All-Star break for a team as woebegone as the 2018 Kansas City Royals is that it’s kind of like hitting a hard reset on the season. Unlike teams that are now fighting for a postseason berth, nothing that happened in the first half matters—everybody on the roster has […]
Series Preview: Royals vs. Minnesota Twins, July 20-22
Even though the Royals play like a minor league team, they don’t get the benefit of the rules of some minor leagues where the second half is a clean slate. That means they bring a horrific record into the first series of the “second half” against the Minnesota Twins, a team that has plenty of […]
RECAP: The Duffy of Yore returns to stymie Chicago
Danny Duffy pitched well, Jorge Bonifacio drove in all three runs and most importantly, Matt Davidson was 1-for-4 with two strikeouts, taking off his Royals-killing superhero cape for an afternoon to allow the Royals a 5-0 win at Not-Comiskey Park. The thing about a series between two utterly abysmal teams is that both have hope. […]
Series Preview: Royals at Chicago White Sox, July 13-15
The scorching hot Royals, winners of one of two, take their show to Chicago to take on the White Sox on the road for the first time this season. As you know the White Sox had their way with the Royals early in the year before the Royals were able to salvage the final two […]
The Other Guys
You may not be aware of this, but the Royals aren’t very good. In order to avoid 100 losses, they need to finish the season 37-34. That’s the pace of an 84-win season over 162 games. This team has only won three in a row once this year, so it seems unlikely they’ll play three […]
RECAP: These are the times that try men’s souls
Note: I wrote this under the influence of severe nighttime cold/cough medicine, as opposed to my usual glass of whiskey. Recalibrate your expectations accordingly. Jose Berrios and Danny Duffy was a legitimate by-God pitcher’s duel. It was an old-school throwback to the days when the Twins and Royals competed against one another for supremacy in […]
Series Preview: Royals at Minnesota Twins, July 9-11
Next up on the list of teams benefitting from facing the Royals is the Minnesota Twins, who were expected to be a playoff contender but have been well under .500 this season. They had lost eight of nine before the Orioles came to town and they swept them and now have a chance to face […]
RECAP: Grand slams are bad
Although it didn’t actually have an effect on the final score, the Kansas City Royals tried something new against Cleveland, Tuesday night. Specifically, they elected to fall behind early, make up the ground and THEN have the opponent rip them to pieces in the later innings. I want to call that progress, but I really […]
Series Preview: Royals vs. Cleveland Indians, July 2-4
The hapless Royals return to Kansas City to take on the hapfull Cleveland Indians. Is hapfull a word? Officially it isn’t, but that’s okay. The Indians are quite good and seem to really be coming to life in a division that was always going to be a cakewalk for them. They can hit, they can […]