When things are going poorly, teams find ways to lose. The Royals have been working on their formula for a couple of weeks now, but tonight they added a new wrinkle: actually scoring runs, but still finding a way to drop a game. Kris Medlen Makes Me Sad A constant over this rough patch has […]
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RECAP: Indians 5, Royals 4; Your Joy Will Turn To Ashes
Buoyed by a win behind Ian Kennedy on Saturday, the Royals sought to win a series for the first time in two weeks and sent Steady Eddie Volquez to the mound against the Cleveland Indians. However, on Sunday, Volquez wobbled. The damage started early, as Carlos Santana led off the game with a home run on […]
RECAP: Royals 7, Nationals 6; Walkoff Bliss
It wasn’t the fifth game of the World Series, or even a high-stakes October ballgame. Yet, it kind of felt the same. The Royals needed a win. Badly. They jumped out to an early lead, saw the Nationals chip away, put their bats away for the middle innings, and finally broke out in the later innings. […]
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 […]
World Series Hangover Cures (BP Kansas City Episode 6)
This week, we kept it brief (for us) and discussed the Royals’ series against Detroit and Baltimore (and recalling their road series win in Houston) as a way to show how the Royals are not fighting complacency early in the 2016 season as they defend their World Series crown. While half the offense is still finding […]
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 […]
On Lorenzo ‘K’-ing
The Royals, you may have heard, are not a team that strikes out very frequently. Last year, they had the lowest strikeout rate in baseball, and it wasn’t particularly close. The lineup is filled with players who tend to avoid strikeouts like they’re a modern-day plague on baseball, which is good considering that’s essentially what they […]
We Still Know Nothing
Baseball is back, and I would highly doubt that anyone reading this would argue that it is not a good thing. After some wonky opening week schedules for everyone, teams will be settling in to the typical grind of the regular season, so we can even get back to just regular, nearly daily baseball. The […]
Let’s Get This Show On The Road
I don’t know about you, but I was ready for this season to officially start about three weeks ago. I can’t remember a spring training I’ve cared less about. I suspect the Royals players, coaches, and front office people feel that even more strongly. As far as I’m concerned, this spring was about avoiding injuries. […]