Four blown saves might not seem like many. The baseball season is long, after all. But Monday’s game was just the KC Royals 50th of the season. Soria has pitched in just 23 of those games. Detroit’s Francisco Rodriguez leads the league with five blown saves in 19 appearances, and Texas’ Sam Dyson has four blown saves in just 16 appearances.
Things had been looking up for the 33-year-old Soria, who more or less blew 12 games for the Royals last season, though officially he registered just seven blown saves in 70 appearances. He threw 10 shutout innings to start the 2017 season, allowing just five hits in that stretch.