Blair Kerkoff found reason to be optimistic about the offense last night.
It wasn’t enough. The Royals left 11 on base and made a baserunning error in the sixth inning when pinch runner Tyler Tolbert was picked off.
“We need to find a way to tack on, expand when we had the lead,” manager Matt Quatraro said. “Once we got down 5-4, we got guys on, we did some things, but we just couldn’t come through.”
Hitting a baseball is at this level is largely about swing decisions, and for a team that not only wholeheartedly believes that but preaches it, they’re far too often making lousy ones.