Royals pitchers walked nine and struck out eight.
No, don’t keep reading, look at that number again.
Royals pitchers walked nine and struck out eight.
That is no way to win a baseball game.
To be fair, the Royals were squeezed all night. I can think of at least five pitches off the top of my head that were in the white box on the TV broadcast but were called balls. That includes one pitch starter Kris Bubic threw which should have led to a strikeout and the plate appearance instead ended in a walk.