Kansas City Royals

The week, game by game

Each game's fan misery, from first comment to the next game. ● marks a blowup.

• Tue, Sep 15L 2-4@ HOU55
• Wed, Sep 16W 5-2@ HOU41
• Thu, Sep 17L 2-6@ HOU79
• Fri, Sep 18L 5-8@ PIT58
• Sat, Sep 19L 5-6@ PIT41
• Sun, Sep 20L 3-4@ PIT82

The emotional rollercoaster

Fan misery across the week, every six hours. Up is worse. Dashed lines are games.

What happened

One win in six, and it came early enough to feel like a taunt. The 5-2 night in Houston had fans muttering that April through June had already buried this thing. The turn came in Pittsburgh: Vinnie Pasquantino homered, the Royals lost 5-8 anyway, then dropped 5-6 and 3-4 to finish 67-89. Ninth-inning leads got mentioned a lot. So did Black Monday. Mostly, though, the fanbase has stopped predicting a firing and started predicting nothing at all, which is worse.

What fans said

• “If they'd not blown all the ninth inning leads, things would be different.”

  u/Grouchyoldman_420▲ 52frustration

• “Fuck him. Him and Zumwalt absolutely deserve to be fired on Black Monday.”

  u/PlayaSlayaX▲ 18rage

• “No changes. They’re going to chalk this season up to bad injury luck, fail to improve the roster in any significant way and waste another year of Bobby’s prime.”

  u/factoid_▲ 15despair

• “If we ain’t going, y’all MFs ain’t either!”

  u/Khada_the_Collector▲ 12frustration

• “It's absolutely exhausting being a fan of this franchise.”

  u/Fraktal55▲ 8despair

• “he is fully to blame for the failure of this season. He mismanaged so many games.”

  u/Mozilla_Fennekin▲ 7rage

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