As May comes to an end and the summer begins to really heat up, the Royals have got to be the most frustrating baseball team in MLB right now. They’re still over .500, still right in the thick of a playoff hunt, they flatly refuse to get swept by other teams, they have a top-three pitching staff, and for weeks they’ve had baserunners all over the place, but they can’t score any runs.
And because they can’t score any runs, they can’t find any sustained success after their incredible hot streak at the beginning of the month.
Skubal was the starter the only time the Royals beat the Tigers in the two teams’ first five matchups.