The Royals, and by extension we, have achieved the low season.

They managed to test off two of the three issues on their remaining guidelines as Zack Greinke pitched – and pitched fairly properly, all issues thought-about! In addition they gained the sport, which implies they solely tied the franchise report for losses in a single season at 106. Sadly, Bobby Witt Jr. couldn’t get his fiftieth steal as he reached on a single within the third however was picked off and the one different time he reached base was when he tripled within the backside of the fifth and declined to aim to steal dwelling earlier than scoring on a sacrifice fly by Salvador Perez.

The Royals did hit three dwelling runs, at the moment. The whole outfield went deep. First MJ Melendez within the second, then Edward Olivares and Dairon Blanco within the fourth inning. Blanco ended the day with three hits, complete, together with a pair of stolen bases. He’ll enter the offseason with some good heat fuzzies.

Additionally experiencing some heat fuzzies was Zack Greinke, although it wasn’t in any respect a certain factor as the sport started. Greinke pitched 5 scoreless innings however the first three batters he confronted reached by way of single. He managed to induce a 5-2-3 double play and a floor out to flee the jam unscathed. On the finish of these 5 innings, as if to refuse to go away the stage on cue one remaining time, he got here again out to pitch within the sixth inning. Zack walked lead-off man DJ LeMahieu and that, as they are saying, was that. Supervisor Matt Quatraro gave him the hook and Greinke walked off the mound at Kauffman Stadium for possible the ultimate time to a standing ovation and completed all of it with a curtain name.

Don’t sleep on what occurred after that, although, as Carlos Hernández had a scoreless seventh inning, giving us some hope for his future, earlier than James “The Basic” McArthur pulled off a powerful two-inning save, putting out 4. Don’t be shocked if a person the Phillies – a playoff group – gave up on in the midst of the season rightfully opens the 2024 season because the Royals’ nearer. For those who may take away his disastrous Royals debut, McArthur would end the yr with sub-2.50 ERA and FIP and minuscule stroll and residential run charges, every under one per eighteen innings pitched.

Previous to at the moment’s victory, the Royals had misplaced their final fourteen sequence straight towards the Yankees. I do know that group was past demoralized and distracted, however a win remains to be a win. Additionally, they weren’t demoralized or distracted sufficient to do the whole lot of their energy the previous two nights to verify Bobby didn’t get that fiftieth stolen base. Bobby, as a matter of reality, has been caught stealing 5 instances whereas stealing just one base up to now two weeks based on our personal sterlingice within the feedback of at the moment’s recreation thread. Bobby then, to show that little or no of what professional athletes say issues or has any bearing on actuality, said through the post-game interview with a straight face that he doesn’t care that he didn’t get 50 stolen bases and he doesn’t chase statistics like that, simply wins. The hyper-aggressiveness that allowed the Yankees to simply flip his baserunning endeavors the previous two video games into outs says in any other case.

I had hoped Greinke would give the post-game, on-field interview, and I’m certain the Royals requested him and he gracefully declined as is his proper. I’m glad for his lengthy profession and that the Royals have by no means tried to pressure him to do extra of that form of factor than completely mandatory. As famous above, it simply doesn’t really matter and if it is higher for the participant then I’m simply as glad to see such a chance missed.

Tomorrow begins the lengthy offseason for the Royals. Now all there may be to do is wait and see when the Royals get round to lastly choosing a web site for his or her new actual property growth mission.