Royals reduced to rubble, routed 4-2

Lance Lynn once again had his way with the Royals at Guaranteed Rate Field in tonight’s 4-2 Kansas City loss.

Kris Bubic had a solid start by ERA, but a lousy start by FIP. He allowed baserunners in all but two of his innings. Depending on what you consider baserunners, anyway. Andrew Vaughn led off the inning lacing a base hit to left-center, but Michael A. Taylor gunned him down with an excellent throw-and-tag to Michael Massey. Despite loading the bases with one out in the first inning, and allowing a plethora of baserunners in general, Bubic managed to contain the damage to two runs, both on solo homers. Bubic was lucky that Elvis Andrus’s fifth inning shot was solo as Romy Gonzalez was…