Royals Get Swept in Final Homestand of the Year, and The Panic is Setting In – Farm to Fountains

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Final Score: SF 2 | KC 0

Overall Record: 82-74

Winning/Losing Pitcher

• W: Blake Snell  (5-3 | 3.12 ERA)
• L: Seth Lugo  (16-9 | 3.03 ERA)
• S: Ryan Walker  (9 | 1.94 ERA)

It’s hard to think that this series could’ve gotten worse, but it definitely did. While Detroit took two of three from Baltimore this weekend,  the Royals get swept by the Giants. And Detroit is now tied with KC for the second wild card spot, although the Royals do own the season series tiebreaker against them. Today was just the final straw for Royals fans everywhere as the offense continues to slump and slump. Not scoring a run at all on Sunday and finishing the weekend series scoring a total of one run, and that one run happened on Friday. This past week has just been a nightmare for anyone that claims to follow the Royals in any capacity. The crazy thing about it too? We all thought that each day was going to be the day they got out of it. Because they’ve shown throughout the year that they’ll pop out of nowhere and finally be fixed again, at least for a small amount of time. But even Bobby Witt Jr. and Salvador Perez can’t get anything going. On Sunday, and many times across the series, the Kansas City duo had multiple opportunities to come through with runners in scoring position or in other ways to come through and they couldn’t. All the offense they could muster on Sunday was a few hits and very little opportunity on the bases. Every time they’d get on, they would get in their own way. And even Seth Lugo, who was really quite impressive in this game, had some cheap hits turn into some offense for the Giants. The only runs they could score off the righty was in the second inning, where an RBI single and triple gave the Giants all the firepower they needed.