Game thread LVIII - Orioles at Royals

We always knew things would look brighter for these Royals, eventually. They simply could not be that bad over a full season. And here they are, with two chances to win a series since they took two out of three from Colorado back on May 13-15. A win this afternoon would also mark their longest winning streak of the season at four. Even better, today’s lineup features three rookies and 25-year-old Daniel Lynch will take the mound.

After an awful first start of the season, Lynch had a pretty good roll going with five of six starts seeing him allow three runs or fewer and three games with no runs allowed at all. Unfortunately, as do most pitchers when they spend too much time near Cal…