Considering Michael A. Taylor singlehandedly won one the games he played in Luis Robert Jr.’s three-game absence, and given how much the former All-Star’s 2025 season has been deprived of catharsis, whatever wait was necessary for Friday night’s breakthrough in front of a capacity crowd was just the cost of resuscitation.
And fresh off Thursday’s ball-to-noggin-induced absence, and on the heels of a couple of strange at-bats, Robert — jammed to hell by a Jonathan Bowlan sinker to his hands — blooped a bases-loaded, two-run go-ahead eighth-inning single into short right. That the Royals followed Robert’s breakthrough by allowing three more runs to score via fielding errors and a wild pitch to turn a tense affair into a laugher doesn’t un-clutchify his efforts, at least from a statistical perspective. It did possibly make Bryse Wilson facing Jac Caglianone in the ninth a less ulcer-inducing affair.
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