The Royals have a good team. But it’s a team without much margin for error. Tonight there were too many mistakes made. Some of those mistakes were more egregious than others, but they all add up the same.
First, Seth Lugo was not fooling people during this start. He gave up a two-run home run in the first inning to Seiya Suzuki. He gave up a triple to rookie Pete Crow-Armstrong, who was batting ninth tonight and has not been good, yet, in his young career. Crow-Armstrong scored on a hot-shot groundball to Salvador Perez at first to bring the Cubs’ lead back up to two.