Was the worst part of Tuesday’s loss in Milwaukee… A. Being one-hit by Freddy Peralta over seven innings B. Jakob Junis allowing three home runs C. Both D. Other It’s C, obviously. Don’t make this more difficult than it needs to be. The Kansas City Royals sauntered into Milwaukee and didn’t exactly cut a powerful […]
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RECAP: That was not entirely Brandon Maurer’s fault
Yeah I know that technically it says in the box score that Brandon Maurer blew the save but hear me out. There’s a little more to it than that. The Royals lost, they do that a lot. Tonight they lost in a way that was slightly different given how 2018 has gone—by planting hope against […]
RECAP: Whoa. A win.
Bear with me, it has been ages since I recapped a win. I’m probably rusty. That a team as bad as the Cincinnati Reds couldn’t find something to do with Rosell Herrera is starting to become a bit of a mystery to me, but their loss was the Royals gain on Friday night. That’s because […]
RECAP: Another misspent evening of Royals baseball
Why I spend so many of my summer nights this way is a true mystery. I’m a (semi) young man with a wife and a child and two dogs and a semi-interesting neighborhood I could go explore with my burgeoning family and instead I choose to spend my time watching [gestures] whatever THIS is that […]
RECAP: Kelvin Herrera was traded and it got worse
By the way, the Royals played a baseball game Monday night. It was easy to lose sight of that, considering what was going down even as warm-ups were wrapping up. Kelvin Herrera was gone; yet another franchise mainstay would be wearing a different uniform. Another link to the glory days gone; HDH officially in the […]
RECAP: Big fly does in the Royals again
It’s not so much that the Houston Astros are better than the Kansas City Royals—that was obvious before the first two games, obvious during them, will be obvious for all of this season and might be obvious until the earth is shrouded in fire and all that remains are sorcerers and asbestos—but more distressing is […]
RECAP: Gattis’ grannie downs Royals in opener
With one swing of the bat, the Royals scored more runs against the Defending World Champion Houston Astros than they did in a two-game series against the garbage-pail Cincinnati Reds. Which was good! Three innings later, the Astros scored more runs on one swing of the bat than the Royals did in the entire game, […]
RECAP: Poor, poor Ian Kennedy
Was Tuesday’s Reds-Royals game A.) a low-key pitcher’s duel or B.) a bitterly boring battle between two terrible offenses already playing out the string in mid-June? … … … yes? Look, if you came here looking for 900 words on how AMAZING a 5-1 extra-inning affair between two teams who have combined for as many […]
The Royals and the Other K
Think about the era baseball is currently enjoying. The three true outcomes (walks, strikeouts, home runs) have never represented a larger portion of the game itself. Strikeouts are at an all-time high, walks have held steady above 8.0 percent since 2016 and while home runs are not at the 5.0 percent of non-pitcher at-bats from […]
RECAP: Keller resplendent in final loss at Oakland
We kind of knew that Danny Duffy was going to be at least passable, given that he has been good for several years and is still more than capable of sterling performances. And Jakob Junis showed enough flashes late last year that his early-season success hasn’t come as a total shock. But Brad Keller? Now […]