Mystery is part of the “beauty of baseball,” as Royals manager Ned Yost called it. But it’s also what makes the game exasperating.
“You just never know from day to day what’s going to happen,” he said Saturday at Kauffman Stadium.
Yost could have said this in broad reference to his team, which lost 4-2 to Texas to tumble for the ninth time in 11 games … immediately after having won eight of 10.
The Royals abruptly have gone from one end of the pendulum to the other on the way to being defined somewhere in between extremes with 109 games left to play.