You kind of know a game is over for the Kansas City Royals when Ryan O’Hearn comes in as a replacement. Tonight was one of those games, though it turned out he could have entered the game as a replacement in the third inning and it wouldn’t have made any different. The Minnesota Twins were firing on all cylinders in their defeat of the Royals 9-0, while the Royals looked every bit like a 70-loss team in the middle of August—with 15 of their 27 outs made via strikeout, no less.
It started with Sonny Gray, who was nothing short of masterful against the Royals.