Those dastardly cross-state St. Louis Cardinals come to Kauffman Stadium to face off against the lowly Kansas City Royals, whose more recent World Series victory has been rendered so much more distant a memory than the Cardinals’ last one by virtue of how unimaginably bad the Royals have been in this rudderless nightmare of a 2018 campaign in which they are currently on pace to go 49-113, easily surpassing the previous low-water mark which came in the midst of the Aughts. a decade that saw the Royals drop 100 or more games four times.