Vahe Gregorian writes that the Royals have to avoid getting buried to start the year.
Each counts the same, as manager Matt Quatraro put it before the game, because “it’s not like college football where people vote for you. You either win or you lose, right? And we’ve got 162 of those …
“Obviously, you want to get off to a really good start. But you can’t get past ‘one game at a time,’” he said. “So as boring as that answer is, I truly believe that.”
That’s both the beauty and the beast of a season that will be laden with peaks and pitfalls and moments to cherish and to erase.