Since disastrously limping into the All-Star Break, the Royals have quietly played tolerable baseball since. Kansas City heads to the west coast with a 20-17 record since the break, which includes series wins against some pretty good teams.
This seems about what we thought the ceiling would be. We all knew the April version of the Royals wasn’t the real team, but we also had a sneaking suspicion that the May team wasn’t it either.
Tonight, Kansas City will visit the team that is them in an alternate reality. The Mariners sit at 69-58, a full 11-games ahead of their 58-69 Pythagorean W-L record.