The Royals returned home on Monday having just lost five of six games to a couple of underperforming AL West teams and faced a must-win series against the Marlins. They took two of three of those games, but it wasn’t until the eighth inning of the third game that they looked like the version of the Royals that won so many games earlier this season.
Two weeks ago, before that awful road trip, fans looked at this series against the Guardians that started last night as an opportunity to prove that the Royals deserved to be in playoff contention and might come for the division crown.