It’s desperation time for the Kansas City Royals. They need to finish 21-8 to notch 90 wins, and win 18 to get to 87—which is the average win total for the second wild card since it’s inception in 2012. While those win totals don’t seem difficult but not impossible, the Royals also have to crawl over four teams for the wild card and two for the AL Central title.
Who said it was supposed to be easy?
However, the KC Royals aren’t any strangers to overcoming long odds. They roared back from a 48-50 record in 2014 to finish 89-73 to earn the AL’s top wild card.