It’s all over but the hardware. The Royals closed their 2017 campaign with 80 wins and a spot on the sidelines for the postseason. It was a disappointing finish to a season that opened with such promise. (At least before they actually started playing games. Damn, April was awful.) Still, there were individual performances of […]
Tag: Lorenzo Cain
Fin.
I’ve literally nothing to add when it comes to the outcome of Sunday’s season finale—a drubbing which guaranteed the Kansas City Royals a losing record for the first time since 2012. The Arizona Diamondbacks, who are a very, very good baseball team and legitimate threat to bring a World Series back to the desert, soundly […]
One Final Time Around The Bases
The Royals return home Tuesday for their final home stand of the 2017 season. We’re about a week away from the depressing reality that baseball will take it’s annual leave from us. Another October without baseball. Blah. It’s not just any final set of games at The K. With a number of players likely leaving […]
The Dynasty That Wasn’t?
Here we are, at the end of the Royals’ championship window for this group of players. I know, the Royals have made some noise about re-signing their impending free agents, but I’ll believe that when I see it. Odds are, the key players are going to be too expensive, and at any rate there is […]
Friday Notes
This is it. We’re down to 10 games to go in the 2017 season for the Kansas City Royals, and they’re still technically alive. What’s crazy is they’re alive for pretty much the same reason they’ve stayed alive this long and it’s that nobody is willing to run away with this thing. Of course, now […]
Replacing Cain No Easy Task
When the Royals stumbled down the stretch last season, they did so mostly without the services of Lorenzo Cain. I believed that a huge reason the Royals struggled was because they were missing their middle of the order bat who was kind of in the middle of everything. I thought he was the most valuable […]
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 […]
Please make it stop
God, this game. There are no positives. There are no silver linings. If you’re looking for the happy-happy-joy-joy recap, look elsewhere. You will not enjoy this. I hated writing this almost as much as I hated watching it, and I hated watching it a great deal. Kudos to Ned Yost. In a way, it’s admirable […]
Shutout, Shutout, Shutout, Shutout
With so much focus on some sort of consecutive inning scoreless streak, let’s breakdown the latest Royals loss by the numbers. 0 Runs scored by the Royals. You already knew that. 1 Strikeout recorded by Ian Kennedy. This is notable because he has now run his consecutive start streak with at least one strikeout to […]
Hammel’s perfecto blown up by Cleveland
We went from “Jason Hammel is throwing a perfect game” to “Jason Hammel should be removed after five innings, marched to the clubhouse and duct-taped to a radiator, no questions asked” in a matter of about 15 pitches. The latest in a long line of disappointments dropped the Royals to .500 and brought into question […]