For eight and a half innings, the Kansas City Royals played like crap, wasted a fine Jake Junis outing and generally looked disinterested in the proceedings at Kauffman Stadium in Friday night’s series opener against Toronto.
And then the bottom of the ninth inning happened, and everyone was reminded why it’s so hard to quit this stupid team and give yourself over to a rebuild.
With timely hitting—from the bottom of the order, it should be noted—the Royals erased a three-run deficit and got back to .500 with a 5-4 walk-off victory against the Blue Jays.