The Royals are now nine games over .500 for the first time this year. I don’t have access to the databases that I would need if I wanted to tell you when the last time that happened was, but we know that before this year, they hadn’t been eight over since 2016, so it’s still been a hot minute.
This was one of the Royals’ least dramatic non-blowout victories of the season. Pretty much everyone just did their jobs and the result was a victory over an inferior team. Seth Lugo got things started with 5.2 innings of two-run ball.