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David Berding-USA TODAY Sports Can Adalberto Mondesi win a Gold Glove someday? Weekend Rumblings - News for August 8, 2020 Lynn Worthy writes about how young Royals pitchers benefit from having Salvador Perez behind the plate. “He’s really been incredible through this whole process,” Singer said of Perez. “He’s made it a lot easier on me, that’s for sure. It’s just his … [Read more...] about Weekend Rumblings – News for August 8, 2020

Is this a swing and a miss or an RBI single? | Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images But that might be the only positive thing we can one-quarter of the way through the season. Whenever you’re trying to become good at something, regardless of what that something is, you will likely hear the phrase, “Consistency is key.” And that’s because... well... consistency is important … [Read more...] about Hok Talk: At least they’re consistent

Danny Duffy will take the mound for the Royals | Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images The Royals have won back-to-back games. Can they start a real winning streak? This season is bizarre. You already knew that. However, we are a quarter of the way through the season and the Royals are simultaneously tied as the worst team in the American League and only three games back of … [Read more...] about Gamethread XV: Twins at Royals

The Royals had an unexpected hero. | Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images The two teams combined to bash seven home runs. We’re going to spend a fair amount of time talking about the hitting tonight, so let’s go ahead and talk about the pitching first. Danny Duffy was terrific through three innings, striking out four and allowing only two hits. Unfortunately, things were not so … [Read more...] about Royals out-muscle the Twins, 9-6

Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports The Royals scored a bunch of runs last night, but they’re still both bad and unlucky. They’ve earned their 4-10 start. The Royals have been mostly in the sweet spot of ineptitude where they’ve been both bad and unlucky. That’s, uh, not where you want to be. Heading into play last night, they had barrelled the ball 27 times, which is more than … [Read more...] about Lesky’s Notes: Hitting is fun

Socially distanced good times! | Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Last night was fun, right? Since somebody, and I’m not naming names*, forgot to put up Rumblings yesterday so we have 2 full days worth of baseball content to catch up on this morning. So, buckle in! *IT WAS DEFINITELY MATT! I’m totally blaming Matt, even if it wasn’t his fault. YUP, DEFINITELY MATT! Or one … [Read more...] about Royals Rumblings – News for August 7, 2020

Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports First-place Minnesota comes to town. Friday night baseball! The Royals are off a fantastic night, a 13-2 drubbing of the Chicago Cubs, to end a week-long losing streak. Tonight, they’ll look to make it two in a row, but the challenge will be bigger. First-place Minnesota comes to town for the start of a three-game series. This is a pitching … [Read more...] about Friday Thread: Twins at Royals

Jesse Johnson-USA TODAY Sports The Twins score a lot and the Royals do not. Maybe that could be the whole preview. I’ll admit it. I didn’t think the Twins could be as good as they were last year. Sure they added Josh Donaldson to a ridiculous offense, but I thought they just wouldn’t have enough pitching even with the additions of Kenta Maeda, Rich Hill and Homer Bailey. … [Read more...] about Minnesota Twins Series Preview: The bomba squad is here to ruin your weekend

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Stuff can only take you so far Well a lot of us were wondering when it’d happen and it turns out that today was the answer... The Royals have reinstated Jorge Lopez from the Family Medical Emergency list and designated him for assignment.— Jeffrey Flanagan (@FlannyMLB) August 7, 2020 Jorge Lopez came to the Royals in 2018 in a trade for … [Read more...] about Royals designate Jorge Lopez for assignment