If there was a better way to explain the streakiest team in baseball, Royals manager Ned Yost would do more than sit inside his office chair here and shrug.
“It’s baseball,” he says.
If there was a way to explain the extremes, the torrid stretches, the dead zones, the momentum swings that define his baseball team, well … he would do so. But he has now been around most of this group for six years or more, and there are some things that just are.
On Tuesday night, the Royals defeated the Tigers 3-1 at Comerica Park.