Game thread LXXII - Royals at Dodgers

Seth Lugo #67 of the Kansas City Royals throws in the second inning against the New York Yankees at Kauffman Stadium on June 10, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri.This recent stretch of baseball has not been fun. Not even a little bit. OK, maybe a little bit. The handful of Royals wins over the past couple of weeks have been almost exclusively in the form of stunning comebacks. Those are always hilarious. But they have only won one game easily.

The good news is that this is about as tough as it gets, 10 games - plus tonight’s and tomorrow’s - against first-place teams, including two of the top three or four best teams in the game right now. Over that stretch, the Royals have gone 4-6 in that…