The Royals won a miraculous game last night. The Royals have led at the end of only 33 out of 190 innings played so far this year. Last night they led at the end of only two innings, but one of those was the ninth inning and so they walked away with a miraculous win.
One of the most frustrating things about the 2023 Royals isn’t just that they keep losing, but that they are so very rarely even in the running. Only Oakland has fewer wins. Only the Athletics have a worse run differential. Only the Tigers and Athletics have a worse Pythagorean record, which uses a formula based on run differentials to attempt to describe the record a team should have if luck were removed or at least reduced.