Heading into tonight’s matchup with the Detroit Tigers, Heath Fillmyer and the Kansas City Royals went into action with the chance to extend their winning streak to a season-best mark of four game. At the 99th contest of the season, such a low season-best win streak is inarguably sad and becomes borderline tragic when looking back into the recent past of the franchise to see repeat entries in the Fall Classic just three seasons in the rearview mirror.
The only other time the Royals ran a win streak to three games, they had already fallen behind for the last time to the Texas Rangers by the fourth inning of what could have been their then-fourth-straight win.