Royals see effort, confident they’ll break out

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NEW YORK — This no doubt is a strange place for the Royals. With Monday’s 6-3 loss to the Yankees, Kansas City fell to 15-16 on the season, the first time they’ve been below .500 since July 22, 2014, when they were 49-50.

Since then, the Royals have won two pennants and a World Series title. But this team doesn’t quite resemble those teams, at least not now.

“I mean, I don’t really think about it like that,” Royals manager Ned Yost said. “We just go day to day. We’ll come out tomorrow and try to win a baseball game.”

But some of the players do seem to wonder what is going on with a team that dominated the American League last season. Kansas City has lost 10 of its past 13.

“It’s tough being in a weird place like this,” first …

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