Royals beat White Sox with magic, 3-1

Brad Keller has made a habit of escaping impossible jams. In tonight’s game, he allowed only a single run, a solo home run to White Sox left-fielder Nicky Delmonico, in five innings. Keller struck out five and walked none. But he did give seven hits, which required him to escape a first-and-third with no outs jam in the fourth inning and a second-and-third with two outs jam in the fifth inning. He didn’t allow a run to score either time.

This has quickly become a modus operandi for Keller. He regularly allows significantly more base-runners than innings even when he doesn’t give up very many runs. Based on that record of performance and tonight’s outing I hereby propose that Brad Keller be…