When a last-place team like the Kansas City Royals loses to a slightly less bad Chicago White Sox club by the score of 8-0, it is probably safe to assume that there wasn’t a lot that went right for Ned Yost’s club.
In his major-league debut, Trevor Oaks struggled mightily with the one thing that has been his calling card as he’s ascended through the minors. Fueled largely by his sinker, keeping the ball down in the zone has always been the key to Oaks’s success. Today, Oaks was leaving a bunch of his pitches up.