In a “must win” of sorts to gain some confidence back, the Royals showed some offense, just not enough, today, as the Royals lose another one due to pitching, 6-9, and watch their wonderful start seem meaningless, as they have dropped from a nice 6-2 start of the season to a dismal 9-12, and a losing streak rising to 6. Mayday!
Instead I choose to concentrate on the positive. The team showed that maybe some of that rust is starting to wear off, as they amounted a couple of offensive attacks. Sometimes when the team is down, it is surprising what brings things back around for the club. Like the number 8 and 9 hitters catching fire, and bring the club out of it’s slump. But not here.
The Royals got their offense where they are supposed to be getting their offense, from Butler and Gordon, and quietly from their catcher, Olivo, who is hitting a solid .313.
They made a couple of rallies in the 5th and 7th innings, scoring 2 runs in each inning, but the early deficit was to much to overcome.
Here is what Tomko had to say about his performance today:
“It wasn’t a whole lot of fun tonight. You hope you can just chalk it up to one of those games. I was getting behind a lot of guys — a lot of even counts, a lot of hitter counts. I never really had control of any of the counts to try to do anything.”
Well hopefully we can rebound for the game this evening, if nothing else win one to remember how it feels.