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- Updated: August 6, 2016
KANSAS CITY — The Royals were sitting at seven games over .500 on June 19, just two games out of first in the American League Central. They seemed poised to march toward another division crown.
Then their season spiraled, and they had lost 27 of 40 since entering Saturday’s matchup with the Blue Jays.
Royals manager Ned Yost said over a week ago he stopped paying attention to the standings, instead waiting for his team to possibly get hot enough to make a daily peak at the standings meaningful again.
That hasn’t happened, either. The Royals have lost seven of nine.
But Yost said he will continue to manage the same way, making each game and win a priority, and not start looking toward 2017.
The Royals, as of now, won’t be calling up …
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