Wednesday night the Royals scored 12 runs. Thursday night the Royals scored 15 runs. Friday afternoon a reporter asked a Royals player if hitting was contagious. Friday night the Royals scored 1 run. If hitting is contagious, they’ve come up with a cure and its name is John Danks.
I’ll probably write this column at least once a season for the rest of my life: hitting is not contagious, but bad pitching is. When everyone hits the thing they have in common is the pitcher; when everyone doesn’t hit the thing they have in common is the pitcher.