The Royals come out of the All-Star break in a bit of an awkward position. It is hard to go all in when your team is 3 games under .500 after 97 are in the books. It is also hard to immediately start selling and looking to next season when you are only 4.5 games out of the wild card. Granted, there are five teams between Kansas City and the final spot, so it is fairly unlikely that they get there, but it is not over completely.
Fortunately, the Royals' second-half schedule seems a bit easier than the first half was:
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Out of the remaining series, 8 are against teams with winning records and 12 are against teams in the Royals' position or worse.