While the Kansas City Royals will certainly be content to have picked up a series win over the Washington Nationals on Wednesday after dropping their last two, there's one major element casting a cloud over what's been a solid start to a critically important 10-game homestand.
This of course is the performance of their current ace in the starting staff, Seth Lugo, who just suffered yet another blow-up start, which has been becoming somewhat an unfortunate second-half trend.
In just four innings of work in the series finale, Lugo surrendered seven runs (six of which were earned) off six hits and four walks with only a pair of strikeouts.