In the game preview, I suggested that Royals fans might look for some hope for next year’s team in whether Jorge Lopez could duplicate his previous outing against the Orioles but against a better team. He couldn’t do that. But we’ll get to that in a minute.
The offense showed up, again, tonight. Even without Salvy driving the bus. Whit Merrifield and Adalberto Mondesi both had multi-hit games. They plus Alex Gordon and Hunter Dozier managed RBIs. Ryan O’Hearn had a single. Jorge Bonifacio had a double and scored a run.