The Royals lost to the A’s, 3-2, on Sunday. They lost three out of four in the Bay this weekend.
A deadlocked contest was decided on an eighth-inning home run by Matt Chapman, who most of you had never heard of before last weekend.
Ned Yost does a lot of frustrating things, but I think one of the most maddening is how he flip-flops from being a super-strategic, playing the matchups manager one day, and then the next day he’s like “screw it” and gives each pitcher an inning of work regardless of matchups. Ned used Tim Hill to get exactly one out at the end of the seventh, but then he decided to switch it up and give Jason Adam a fresh inning.