Making up for a game missed to rain way back in the halcyon days of May—back when the season felt like it was over before it wasn’t before it was again—the Royals traveled from Chicago on Sunday and took to the field for an early start in the Bronx before making their way back to Kansas City in a whirlwind few days of travel and baseball.
Ned Yost and the Royals pinned their virtually nonexistent playoff hopes on the back of rookie Jake Junis, hoping that he could avoid the fate of so many Royals’ starters before him, a shellacking at Yankee Stadium.