KC Royals: Five Early Spring Training Overreactions
By Scott Dillon
Five: KC Royals start rally, but come up short. Late inning magic is gone.
Royals lose. The magic is gone.
— t w i t t e r (@jessespector) March 2, 2016
The Royals trailed by three going into the bottom of the seventh inning. Solo shots by Jorge Bonifacio and Parker Morin put the Royals on the board and brought them within a run.
With no outs in the bottom of the eighth, the Royals had the tying run on second base but failed to score him. At this point in the game, the regular Royals’ magicians weren’t in the game anymore.
The regulars were on the bench and the bullpen pitchers that gave up the runs consisted of David Huff, Brian Duensing, and Ross Ohlendorf. That’s hardly the trio of relievers that shut things down for the Royals in 2015. If anything, they might look like a trio of Royals’ pitchers from 2005.
Still, if only for a few fleeting moments, it seemed like the Royals were up to their old tricks again. “We’re down three in the seventh inning? Fellas, we got ’em right where we want ’em”. If any lessons were learned last year, it’s that the winning team has to record 27 outs before the game is ‘over’. That’s especially true against the Royals.
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