The old adage in baseball is that every team is going to win 54 games and every team is going to lose 54 games and it’s what they do with the games in the middle 54 that determine how good they are. You may have heard some slightly different numbers, but the general point remains the same. Baseball is a game of failure. The best teams still lose literally dozens of times a season. Regardless of the number you’ve heard, the games in the middle are the truly important ones. Yesterday’s game for the Royals was one of those in the middle 54.