The Royals lost for the first time this spring on Friday, falling 13-5 to the Padres at Peoria Stadium.
The game
As he pointed to left field at the scoreboard, where blocky text showed the Royals left seven on base, manager Ned Yost waved the spring-training results off.
“I liked more than you thought I liked about that,” he said.
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The Padres scored in every inning but two. They dropped a four-spot in the fourth, when they sent all nine batters to face the Royals' Trevor Oaks and took a 7-3 lead.