The battle for Worst of the Worst continues tonight with the first game of a three-game set between the Oakland A’s and the Kansas City Royals. The last time the two teams faced off, Oakland took the first two games of the series and put themselves in a tie with Kansas City for the league’s worst record. Since their loss on the last game of that series, the A’s have firmly held on to their cellar-dwelling title and currently have a five-game lead over (under?) the Royals. Neither team is in danger of falling out of the bottom four, which is great for their 2024 draft odds — the Royal’s are 10 games back from the fourth-worst Chicago White Sox — so there’s no reason for either team to not go all-out and try to prove they’re not as bad as the other.
A’s vs. Royals game thread
