Y’all remember July? The Royals were flying high, the Wild Card—heck, the American League Central—was within reach and Alex Gordon was having the worst year of his professional career. Okay, some things haven’t changed. But of all the rising and falling, surging and flailing done by various Royals in the season’s second half, none is […]
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Ugly Numbers and Call-ups (BP Kansas City Episode 70)
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/kansascitybaseballvault/2017/09/07/ugly-numbers-and-call-ups-bp-kansas-city-episode-70.mp3 Last week was very bad, but this week was…not *as* bad! The Royals suffered some ugly, ugly blowouts, and it seems like Jake Junis and Scott Alexander are the only pitchers doing well who are healthy right now. That’s not ideal. And yet, the Royals are still hanging around in the wild card race. […]
Series Preview: Royals vs. Minnesota Twins, September 7-10
The Royals get their last crack at the Minnesota Twins this week as they welcome the division foe into Kansas City for a four-game set. Despite being outscored by 15 runs in the three-game set in Minneapolis, the Royals took two out of three games against the Twins last weekend and hope to win another […]
The Baseball Gods have forsaken this team
When the Great Scorer eulogizes the 2017 Kansas City Royals season, I imagine that among the first few sentences will be the phrase “Lost by 10-plus runs to two division rivals in less than a week.” You won’t find that sentence on the proverbial headstone of many playoff teams, that’s for sure. The Detroit Tigers—who […]
Series Preview: Royals at Detroit Tigers, September 4-6
This is the portion of the schedule where the Royals have to clean up. They take on a Tigers team that is a shell of what it once was. They’ve dealt J.D. Martinez, Justin Upton, Justin Wilson and Justin Verlander. Maybe it’s something about guys whose names start with “J” or maybe they’re just finally […]
Series Preview: Royals vs. Tampa Bay Rays, August 28-30
The punchless Royals have to hope to find their punch back at home against the Tampa Bay Rays, another team once believed to be a top Wild Card contender but now stuck in the middle of the abyss. The Rays actually have some similar attributes to the Royals, at least offensively, in that they looked […]
Series Preview: Royals at Cleveland Indians, August 25-27
The good news is the Royals still have a shot at the American League Central. It’s not a great shot, but with seven games remaining against the Cleveland Indians, it’s a shot nonetheless. Three of those seven games are this weekend. Since these teams faced off just a few days ago, the standings haven’t really […]
Friday Notes
The Royals currently sit at 64-62. They are six games away from the division lead, and we’ll get to that. They are right in the thick of a Wild Card race that includes 41 teams, give or take a couple. All things considered, things could be worse. They definitely could be better, but they’ve now […]
Series Preview: Royals vs. Cleveland Indians, August 18-20
Things haven’t been ideal for the Royals over the last few weeks, but now is their time to fix all of that if they are so inclined. They welcome the first place Cleveland Indians to town for a three-game set this weekend that, without hyperbole, has a chance to define the rest of the Royals season. […]
Series Preview: Royals at Chicago White Sox, August 11-13
The Royals will try to turn things around against one of the worst teams out there, the Chicago White Sox. Even after just sweeping a series against the best team in the American League, the Astros, they’re just 6-19 since the break and have traded off the vast majority of their big league players. Of course, now […]