With all of baseball fresh off four days off for the All-Star Break, the Royals find themselves with a handful of players even fresher than that as they return to the field to take on the Tampa Bay Rays for the first time in 2022. The Rays find themselves in a familiar position, the thick of the postseason race. If the season ended today, that’d be weird, but the Rays would be the fourth seed, which is important since the three and four seeds host the entire Wild Card round. They’re doing it with a solid but uneven offense and a pitching staff that does a lot well.
Tampa Bay Rays Series Preview: The walking wounded enter KC in second place
