For those of you who weren’t Kansas City Royals fans yet in 2014, of if you were too young to really get it, getting the game to the bullpen was a sigh of relief. If the Royals carried a lead past the sixth inning, that was it. The game was done, the Royals were going to win, and there was nothing teams could do about it.
That’s because 2014 was powered by a true Cerberus of pitching excellence: Kelvin Herrera, Wade Davis, and Greg Holland. The three gave up 33 runs that year. No no no, they didn’t give up 33 runs each.