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 […]
Tag: Royals
The Doctor is in for the Royals in Toronto
So the big run barrage that happened Wednesday night? The Royals might’ve been better served hanging on to one or two of those for Thursday’s affair. Fortunately, the Jason Vargas of April and May returned to stifle the Toronto bats in a 1-0 win to keep Kansas City’s Wild Card hopes, however faintly, alive. A […]
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 […]
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 […]
Royals snap streak behind stellar bullpen outing
After last night’s debacle, there was a real chance Cleveland’s streak would reach into next week. And you can excuse Royals fans for feeling a familiar, sinking feeling going into the home half of the ninth on Friday night—bottom of the Tribe order, limited options out of the bullpen. And Mike Minor trotted out in […]
Friday Notes
I guess you can never say never until there’s no way, but last night’s loss was probably the final final nail in the 2017 Royals coffin. In the end, they just didn’t have the firepower to play a full six months with various injuries to more than half of their rotation, some of their bullpen, […]
Cleveland Gets An Historic Win; The Royals Were Glad To Help
All that was standing between the Kansas City Royals and stopping Cleveland’s three-week winning streak was Kelvin Herrera and the bottom of the Tribe’s order. That was it. Yandy Diaz and two pinch-hitters (Tyler Naquin and Francisco Mejia). Not the 1927 Yankees. There are better lower-end-of-the-order trios all over the MLB, and likely at least […]
We Will Never Understand This Team
See if this sentence looks familiar. “When Dayton Moore went out and got Melky Cabrera and a trio of arms before the start of August, the proverbial push of the chips to the middle of the table, it signaled a point of no return for the Kansas City Royals. The bell cannot be un-rung.” If […]
Royals hit record-breaking homer in beatdown of Tigers
Now that’s a little more like it. Back to .500 go the Royals after a 13-2 thrashing of the Detroit Tigers in the series finale, as the Good Guys pounded 18 hits to do what they should’ve been doing to Detroit all along—beating the breaks off of them. It made for a pleasant change tonight […]
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 […]