It’s seemed like a foregone conclusion for much of the season. The Kansas City Royals were finally going to have a new home run king.
After an embarrassingly long time, Mike Moustakas was finally going to break the single-season franchise mark for home runs. Steve Balboni had held the record of 36 since 1985, meaning the mark of long-ball futility has stretched longer than the World Series drought.
Fittingly, one of the members of the team that snapped the 30-year world championship drought had brought enough rain to threaten the home run record in August.