Baseball is a game of numbers, which can be a lot of fun to crunch sometimes.
Those numbers can also paint an ugly picture, such as when researching the Royals’ seven-game losing streak. Here are some numbers that put the Royals’ struggles in historical perspective.
u25aa The Royals have lost six straight games while scoring one run or less, the first time a team has done that since the 2011 Minnesota Twins, per research done through Baseball Reference’s indispensable Play Index. But, as Buddy Bell once noted, it could be worse.
The 1963 Houston Colt .