How the KC Royals embarrassed themselves again

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Count it as one of the most disquieting events of the KC Royals’ 2021 season. Put it on the club’s growing list of low points, and when the first weekend of October is over and with it Kansas City’s season, the post mortem of this disappointing campaign will reveal just how this latest embarrassment compares to all the others.

This new embarrassment is, of course, the weekend series loss the Royals suffered at the hands of Baltimore, the worst team the American League has to offer and the second worst in all the majors. Losing two in a row to the Orioles should certainly embarrass this club.

Especially Sunday’s loss. Hope was high before the game that Kansas…