For four days at Kauffman Stadium, the Royals were outclassed by one of the worst teams in baseball. For seven innings on Friday, they nearly took down one of the game’s best pitchers. For another night, their once impenetrable bullpen was pierced in the late innings.
Perhaps this is an apt summation of this 2016 season, a year that, at times, just hasn’t made much sense.
The Royals were once unbeatable at home. Now they are utterly vulnerable. They once appeared capable of staging a final run entering a homestand against Oakland and Chicago. Now they can’t win a game.