This was supposed to be so easy. The Royals jumped to a nine-run lead. Nine runs. Nine. In two innings! And it (almost) didn’t matter. Last night’s 14-inning affair was as thrilling a moment as the Royals have provided all season. Surrendering a nine-run lead a day later would not have fit into the plan […]
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RECAP: Jon Jay was good!
A lot of people celebrate Memorial Day (or as it’s known in the Deep South, the Official Start of Grilling, Drinking and Wearing American Flags Somewhere On Your Person Day) with a baseball game. I am not some people; I celebrated it with two. First, there were my hometown Nashville Sounds, who had a 12:05 […]
RECAP: Bartolo Colon is awesome. Also, the Royals played
One can’t bag on the Royals not taking a 45-year old best described as ‘rotund’ straight to the woodshed because as presently constructed, Bartolo Colon would be the Royals No. 2 starter. One can bag on the Royals for other reasons, like staking a three-run lead, putting men on in crucial spots late and not […]
RECAP: Soler hits ball to Saturn, Royals lose anyway
It’s Friday, which means roughly three-quarters of the 18 of you who read this on Saturday morning will be doing so through the lens of the previous night’s mistakes. Speaking of mistakes, they were made against Jorge Soler and Mike Moustakas by the Texas Rangers on Friday night, but those mistakes ultimately didn’t matter in […]
Friday Notes
Don’t look now, but the Royals have won a second series this year and it was even on the road. Can anyone stop this team? Yes. The answer is yes. Everyone can. But wins are still fun, so it’s nice to get a chance to see them a little bit. As we’ve discussed, this season […]
Series Preview: Royals at Texas Rangers, May 24-27
It’s now on to Texas for the Royals where they’ll take on the worst team in the AL West in a four-game battle that could have major ramifications on the 2019 MLB Draft. The Rangers are one of the worst hitting teams in the league but have sequenced well enough that they’ve scored a few […]
RECAP: Hammel makes bullpen a nonissue in victory
My favorite late-inning Royals game to play is “How will the bullpen blow it this time?” I never know how it will turn out, but it’s always an entertaining watch. Even when nothing happens—even when the bullpen does that thing they’re supposed to do where they don’t give up runs and don’t allow a lead […]
RECAP: Coming to a theatre near you!
In lieu of yet another downer recap of a Royals—(Fill in the opponent) game, I wanted to do something new. Something fresh. Something you aren’t getting from any of our competitors, something that encompasses the game but also maybe brings a bit of culture and panache to the proceedings. With that in mind, I present […]
RECAP: Please, no more
The end of “Danny Duffy, top-end starter” has arrived. The latest in a long series of less-than-good starts came Saturday night in a 9-3 loss to the New York Yankees. Again, Duffy didn’t manage to make it out of the fifth inning, the fourth time this season that’s happened. Again, he was erratic (three walks, […]
RECAP: Whit, Salvy and Junis more than enough to topple Yanks
Any day the New York Yankees lose is a good day for baseball. This particular day also featured a win for the Kansas City Royals in the series opener, making it that much sweeter. To defeat the Evil Empire typically would take a total team effort but the Royals really didn’t need much more […]