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- Updated: May 2, 2016
SEATTLE — The Royals had been waiting so long to be the Royals again. Five games is a lot when you’re the defending World Series champions. And five games seems like a lot more when you’re not scoring runs.
So it ended with a 4-1 win over the Mariners on Sunday, the first losing streak of this length for the Royals since May 1-5, 2014, back when they were just future Fall Classic participants, not ring-bearing winners. Kansas City broke out of a 27-inning scoreless funk, a seven-game road skid and the five-game overall losing string all at once.
But as the shadows took over Safeco Field following a brutal West Coast swing through Anaheim and Seattle, the Royals, who went 1-5 on the trip, could board their team plane back home knowing, at least, that they were playing their game again.
“It feels good,” said first baseman Eric Hosmer, who homered for the fourth run in Sunday’s finale. “We still have confidence in each other, we still have confidence in this team. We just realized we were going through a stretch of tough times, bad luck, and just stuff wasn’t going our way.
“We just had to continue to play hard, and it’s good to get this win before we head back and play …
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