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A breakdown of the Royals’ bullpen breakdown

By now you’ve probably already heard the Royals lost to the Twins when the Kansas City bullpen gave up six runs in the seventh inning.

They say there’s no use crying over spilt milk, but nobody ever said you couldn’t take a closer look at how that milk got spilt.

Starting pitcher Danny Duffy threw six innings while giving up one run, but his pitch count was up to 100 and that’s as far as Ned Yost wanted to take Duffy in his first start of the year.

So Ned did what has worked so often in the past; he went to his bullpen.