By nearly any metric, Joakim Soria has had a poor 2016 season. By the opinion of Royals fans, he has had a disastrous 2016 season. Soria has entered the game with a lead or tie twelve times this year, only to see the Royals losing by the time his damage was done. With the season slipping away, let's look back at the twelve times Soria left having given the opponent the lead and think of better times.
Joakim Soria opened the eighth inning of a 2-2 tie against the Twins by striking out Trevor Plouffe. Then Korean rookie Byung Ho Park deposited a pitch over the fountains into the teeth of a wind for his first career home run.