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 […]
Tag: Mike Moustakas
Royals By-Standers To The Judge Show
Aaron Judge clubbed two home runs and it gets worse. That should’ve been the title for Monday’s matinee at Yankee Stadium, but it wasn’t because that was far too depressing and honestly, if you got past whatever I did settle on for a title—and if you did that, on this website, chances are you’re a […]
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 […]
Bye Bye Balboni (BP Kansas City Episode 71)
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/kansascitybaseballvault/2017/09/21/bye-bye-balboni-bp-kansas-city-episode-71.mp3 Finally. After nearly three weeks of being stuck at #36, Mike Moustakas did the impossible, dethroning Steve Balboni as the Royals single-season home run record holder. On Wednesday night, just as we started recording, Moose hit home run #37 to set a new Royals record and we were excited. We discussed the significance of […]
Moustakas all alone atop Royals home run leaderboard; Royals thrash Jays
You gotta give the Kansas City Royals this—when it’s going well, it’s going REALLY well. And it went really, really, REALLY well Wednesday night against the Toronto Blue Jays. (According to Twitter, Mike Moustakas also did something of relative importance. We’ll get to that in moments.) As a group, the Royals pounded Toronto. Just beat […]
Talkin’ Pennant Race Blues
This must be what the off-season will feel like. To sum up: Blah, blah, blah. Monday was quiet on the Royals front. Too quiet for a Monday in September. But really, at this point is there any need to make any noise? Yeah, we can debate the merits of a six-man rotation, but when 25 […]
Stumble And Fall
Numbers don’t lie. The numbers that describe the Royals current situation are particularly grim. After dropping three of four to the hotter-than-the-sun Cleveland Indians, the Royals find themselves five games back in the hunt for the final Wild Card. They have 13 games remaining. On the surface, that doesn’t seem insurmountable. Besides, these Royals are […]
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. […]
Moustakas tags No. 36, Alexander holds on in Royals win
The ninth inning of this game had no business being remotely interesting, let alone with the bases loaded, two down, in a one-run game. Yet here we were mere moments ago, watching helplessly as Scott Alexander loaded the bases after Kelvin Herrera was pulled—again—due to injury—again—leaving Alexander to clean up the mess. And Alexander delivered. […]