Whatever happened to predictability?
The milkman, the paperboy, and evening TV?
-Lyrics to theme to the TV sitcom “Full House”
There are three things you can count on in life - death, taxes, and Alcides Escobar being in the starting lineup. Well today, at least one of those is not true - Alcides Escobar is not in the starting lineup.
Alcides Escobar had started 421 games in a row, his last day off being on September 25, when all the regulars sat after celebrating clinching the Central Division. Escobar has been a pretty permanent fixture in the lineup, however, appearing in all 162 games in the season three times, and appearing in 155 or more games in six of his seven seasons in Kansas City going into this year.