If there was a better way to explain this, Royals manager Ned Yost would do more than just shrug his shoulders and offer his sport’s equivalent of what the heck.
“It’s baseball,” he says.
If there was a better way to explain this, general manager Dayton Moore would do more than point to the unpredictable nature of this game.
“It seems like in the past our team either gets really hot together or they’ve gotten cold,” he says.
But then again, maybe there is no perfect way to explain this. On Monday night, the Royals defeated the Detroit Tigers 5-3 in 12 innings at Comerica Park, rolling their latest winning streak to six games.