The goal here is to make it through the next few hundred words without the disclaimer about this only being one game, because you are clearly a discerning reader who understands this Royals season is now just 0.6 percent complete.
So even if I actually just failed that goal in the first paragraph, it will not be lost on anyone that the Royals lost their season opener to the Twins 7-1 here on Monday in what vaguely mirrored the organization’s biggest collective concern about this season:
The bullpen didn’t have it.
And, really, that doesn’t do it justice.