Every year, the Royals run into a string of games where they can’t score. This year, the Royals decided to start off on the “struggling to score” bandwagon, but it can happen in the middle of the season, too—we just got an early jump on the discourse in 2022. Even after a solid offensive performance where they scored seven runs on Saturday night, the Royals have only scored 39 runs as of Sunday and are scoring the third-lowest runs per game out of any team in baseball.
Regardless when this slump happens every year, it prompts the Royals’ beat writers to write about it.