Royals blasted by worst in the West

KC reeling from 16-3 shellacking from lowly OaklandFor three innings, there was a baseball game being played at Kauffman Stadium.

Then there wasn’t.

Starting for the Royals, Dillon Gee made it through two innings without yielding a run before getting a demoralizing dong hung of the three-run variety to deep left center from Khris Davis. The Royals battled back in the bottom of the third, matching the three runs Gee allowed in the top of the frame with a rally built upon a two-run Paulo Orlando double. An out later, Kendrys Morales singled Orlando in and the Royals were back in business.

In the next frame, business shuttered, the power was turned off, the soil turned fallow, the pipes burst,…