When a baseball team out-hits opponent 15-7, it should win, right?
Not the Royals last night.
Unfortunately for Kansas City, four of the Reds’ seven hits were home runs, and Cincinnati got out of town with a 7-4 victory and a three-game sweeping, sending the Royals to their ninth straight loss.
Kansas City fell to 18-50, their worst 68-game record since the franchise began play in 1969. They are on pace to lose 118 games, two fewer than the modern (since 1900) record of 120 by the Mets in their first season of 1962.
The Royals were a miserable 2 of 15 with runners in scoring position. They had the bases loaded with one out in the ninth, only to leave them stranded.
The underachieving Angels of Shonei Ohtani and Mike Trout invade Kansas City this weekend. The Royals are expecting large crowds on Father’s Day weekend.
I won’t be back this weekend, but I might in August or September. I enjoyed the Diamond Club experience, even if there isn’t any barbecue.
The announced crowd was 13,731 There were huge swaths of empty seats down both foul lines, both in the main bowl and the upper deck.
The most incredible part of the game: I didn’t use the restroom despite being in the stadium for four hours and consuming three large cups of Pepsi Zero Sugar.
GET RID OF KISS CAM! It was horrendous when it debuted, it is still horrendous.
However, there was the best moment I have ever witnessed on kiss cam.
A beautiful lady asked her man to kiss her, only to get a face full of ice cream.
Later, Royals mascot Sluggerrr found the couple with a sign which stated “LOVE STINKS”. He then proceeded to place a chocolate ice cream cone on the man’s bald head, all while Def Leppard’s “Love Stinks” blared over the public address system.
Funny, but still, I hate kiss cam!
This was the first time I saw the Reds. By my count, I’ve now seen 26 of 30 teams in person. The ones I haven’t are the Athletics, Rockies, Marlins and Rays.
Not counting the Royals, I’ve seen the Astros the most, seven times. The Rangers are next with six, followed by Cleveland at five.
I have seen the Royals as a visiting team as well, a three-game series in Houston in 2000, the first year of Minute Maid Park, which was then known as Enron Field.
I have not seen the Orioles, Red Sox, White Sox and Brewers (SIGH) since I went with my dad and brother to the Rangers’ first stadium in Arlington in the 1990s.
I saw the Padres play in the Astrodome in 1989, my first MLB game, but not since.
My only games for the Dodgers and Pirates were when they played each other at PNC Park in 2005. The best MLB ballpark I’ve been to. Minute Maid is a close second because it’s indoors (for the most part).
It would be five hours and change to Denver to see the Rockies. I should have gone by now.
The Chiefs kick off in 83 days. Kansas City wishes it could be 83 minutes.
Foots Prints 