They say that winners win, and that losers blame the refs (or umps, in baseball parlance). To an extent, this is true, but it was not true the last time a Tampa Bay sports team beat a Kansas City sports team, and it was not true tonight—in both cases, the team that played better won. The Kansas City Royals thoroughly lost tonight’s game against the Tampa Bay Rays 4-0, failing to capitalize on what few opportunities they created for themselves and self-inflicting multiple wounds along the way.
But in both cases, the refs—er, umps—were a true dumpster fire.